After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the...
Who owns the art, the painter, or the purchaser? Today, I got a note back from the Copyright Office about whether I actually owned the copyrights to the art in my filing (which included the text I wrote and the art I commissioned and revised with freelance artists)....
Here we are. It’s been a few days since I finished and sent the book and audiobook to my Kickstarter backers, but I completed on time, as promised. Now, the next step is to revise the manuscript according to the advice of two of my trusted editors. I’ve...