Family: 1 Turkey: 0 Short Stories: 3
Nov. 28th, 2008 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanCoffee is on, the fowl remains are being simmered into soup, various people are surfing the 'net, shopping, Mei-Chan is snuffling the floor looking in vain for scraps,and Lucy the resident feline (an oversized ball of long black fur) is trying to eat Mei-Chan's food. And it has not snowed. Why is Italy getting snow and New England not? *grumpy*
But I did not log on to grump about the weather (time enough for that later). I logged on to let y'all know that I've finally gotten off my duff and joined Anthology Builder. You guys all know about Anthology Builder, right? Go on-line, choose what YOU want to read from their inventory, pick a cover, and they will send you an actual print anthology of your creation. Cool, huh? And a great way to sample the short fiction field (or create a special gift for the short fiction reader in your life).
Anyway, right now there are three stories of mine up, with more to come.
1. "Don't You Want to be Beautiful?" -- one of my few humor pieces,about the Dire Effects of a makeover and a careful application of guilt.
2. "Fire Rising in the Moon" -- one of my favorite shorts, this can be read as mainstream psychodrama, or horror, or fantasy or....
3. "Exposure" -- the first appearance of Westin, vampire photographer. A murder mystery, a vampire story, a love letter to feeding what sustains us (art,not blood).
http://www.anthologybuilder.com
Enjoy!
But I did not log on to grump about the weather (time enough for that later). I logged on to let y'all know that I've finally gotten off my duff and joined Anthology Builder. You guys all know about Anthology Builder, right? Go on-line, choose what YOU want to read from their inventory, pick a cover, and they will send you an actual print anthology of your creation. Cool, huh? And a great way to sample the short fiction field (or create a special gift for the short fiction reader in your life).
Anyway, right now there are three stories of mine up, with more to come.
1. "Don't You Want to be Beautiful?" -- one of my few humor pieces,about the Dire Effects of a makeover and a careful application of guilt.
2. "Fire Rising in the Moon" -- one of my favorite shorts, this can be read as mainstream psychodrama, or horror, or fantasy or....
3. "Exposure" -- the first appearance of Westin, vampire photographer. A murder mystery, a vampire story, a love letter to feeding what sustains us (art,not blood).
http://www.anthologybuilder.com
Enjoy!
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Date: 2008-11-28 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-28 08:54 pm (UTC)Except in specific cases, the author retains copyright-- but the publisher has the right to publish for a certain period, for as long as they keep the books available. However,just because a book is out of print that doesn't mean the author gets the rights back automatically/immediately. Often they're tied up for years -- especially if the publisher still has digital editions available.
So it's less "why don't you" but more "WHEN can you..?"
And, once that's dealt with, once a writer has rights back, it isn't just as simple as "let me sell them this way" because it takes time and energy to set up the kind of agreement you suggest, and not everyone has the readership to make it cost effective. Going in as a co-op allows costs to be shared, and brings a larger potential (overlapping) readership to projects.
(this is also the theory behind Bookview Cafe)
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Date: 2008-11-28 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-28 10:13 pm (UTC)