State of the Sookie

Writing: 1503, synopsis; 179 added to horses

Total for day: 1682
Total for the month/year: 113234

Deadline work:
Pegging: 11427/10000, Done!
Dark Shifters: 2263/10000 Fail!
Horse shifters: 10076/10,000 Done!
BBW: 20863/20,000, 3000 left. Done!
Total: 44629/50000


Workout: none

Flying: 15 minutes in study

Reading: Love that never dies

Crafting: crocheted on hookbook, worked on striped sock

Media: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire hunter. Pippin

Business: none

My tweets

• Thu, 13:47: Apparently, it';s a Thursday and I am double booked. http://t.co/Iolwk8z2rj
• Thu, 21:26: Thinking about books… http://t.co/UXhNwbK203
• Fri, 03:17: State of the Sookie… http://t.co/8AsolN2LC7

Blog tour!

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State of the Sookie

Writing: None

I subbed three stories in 2 days. I get a day off.

Total for day: 0
Total for the month/year: 113234

Workout: none

Flying: none

Reading: none

Crafting: finished striped sock, started rainbow sock

Media: none

Business: Made policy decision on a publisher.

Publisher Alert

All right, folks. I have done something stupid.
I signed a life of copyright contract with Ellora's Cave.
My fault. I was focused on reading the known problem clauses, and I missed section 1.


Author, on behalf of herself/himself and her/his heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, exclusively grants to the Publisher during the full term of copyright and any renewals and continuations and extensions thereof, the right to print, publish, sell and license the Work throughout the world, and in any and all media and forms of expressions now known, and all subsidiary rights granted in the Subsidiary and Secondary Rights clause hereunder.


READ YOUR CONTRACTS! This is from a publisher I've been with 5 years. They made this change within the last 2.

They also reduced print royalties, and reduced the word limit in their "Right of First Refusal" clause to 7500, which means you can't even submit to many anthologies!


This is where I weigh things:
Do I want to make money or do I want creative control of my creation?
This is the ONLY place I consistently sell het.
This is the place I make the money and the sales, although it has fallen off sharply in the last four years.

I have sent this house one last piece, as I am obligated to under the First Refusal clause. After that, I think I'm quits. Even if they offer a contract, I'm going to ask that Life of Copyright be changed. Should they not, no more books. I will put this piece out through Inkstained or Amber Heat.

AUTHOR BEWARE