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...
First, I’m glad to report that the first volume’s Kickstarter campaign has been funded at 147%! This is huge, and it’s going to help me defray some of the enormous costs of self-funding the editing, beta-reading, and illustration solicitations...
