Or unless you're a public person. Most working authors and musicians have many more than 330 friends in FB.
Takes more stones than I'll ever have to drive that behemoth, I'm thinking...
@mordicai: Don't we all... (And thank you.) ENDURANCE is in production at Tor, and they have informed me that the release will come in December, 2011. (Book three is finished in first draft as well, btw.)
Best. Movie. Review. Evar.
@Howard Blair: You must work in a substantially different genre than me. While publishers often file copyright on an author's behalf (in the process of asserting their own interest in cover copy, end notes, etc.), no pro I know of or work with in the SF/F genre (and I probably know literally half the working pros in the field by now) would allow the situation you describe of the publisher taking over copyright in exchange for royalties. Those are, almost by definition, the licensing fee, not the buy-out. (Different rules apply in SF/F WFH projects, of course.)
@Howard Blair: Re point 2), only very bad publishing contracts (well, and work-for-hire, which is a rather different animal) transfer copyright. What an author sells to a magazine or a publisher is a license to reproduce their own copyright.
Your point 1) applies, of course, but from the point of view of most authors it would be self-defeating.
* I am not an attorney and I do not play one on the Internet. I have, however, signed a fairly large number of both agented and unagented publishing contracts as either writer or editor, and have more than a passing familiarity with their terms.
Your point 1) applies, of course, but from the point of view of most authors it would be self-defeating.
* I am not an attorney and I do not play one on the Internet. I have, however, signed a fairly large number of both agented and unagented publishing contracts as either writer or editor, and have more than a passing familiarity with their terms.
What about the alternate Mr. Roark from Fantasy Island?
@leavethegun-takethecannoli: That's *rich* Corinthian leather, I do believe...
@bookwench: Oh, it's a hell of a story. I tell it at parties. If I find time tomorrow, I'll post it in this thread.
I love living in Portland. And I say this as a former Austinite, where my adventures included peripheral involvement in a fatal pornography fire and non-peripheral involvement in a bad dead meat incident on the street in front of my Hyde Park home.
I was in China last year, where electric scooters (basically battery powered Yahamas, I think) have become very popular. You don't have to be blind to be seriously endangered by one of those things whizzing along in the dark. Tire noise is inaudible above urban racket, and at night the headlight is quite dim.
Musk is also in the middle of a messy divorce where he's working very hard to prove how broke he is. That may intersect here...
1980 Renault Le Car, driven from Austin, TX to the Grand Canyon and back in three days at about 85 mph. Expired tags, expired inspection, no insurance, stuck wipers, loose vent window. We crimped the exhaust pipe in two places, broke the skid plate, lost the gas cap, went deep off roading in spring mud, passed a cop on the right while doing 115 mph (yes, in a Le Car), and at one point broke the accelerator cable in Globe, NM, which necessitated a 24 hour stop that could have been a Twilight Zone script, complete with greasy donuts, stolen cars and a paroled murderer.
Hmm. Maybe I should actually write this up in detail.
Yes, I was 18. Why do you ask?
When I was 27 I took a 1980 Ford LTD wagon 3,000 miles through rural Mexico to see a total eclipse of the sun. Highlights there including one of the other guys bogging it on the beach over a wasp's nest, me taking it across the river on a canoe ferry, flooding the car with raw sewage while in motion, and nearly getting killed by a drug lord's raiding party. Plus we broke the suspension and drove/dragged the last thousand miles minus the right rear springs and shocks.
Slow learner.
Hmm. Maybe I should actually write this up in detail.
Yes, I was 18. Why do you ask?
When I was 27 I took a 1980 Ford LTD wagon 3,000 miles through rural Mexico to see a total eclipse of the sun. Highlights there including one of the other guys bogging it on the beach over a wasp's nest, me taking it across the river on a canoe ferry, flooding the car with raw sewage while in motion, and nearly getting killed by a drug lord's raiding party. Plus we broke the suspension and drove/dragged the last thousand miles minus the right rear springs and shocks.
Slow learner.
Well at the World's End comes to mind, though in fairness, it's been years since I've read the book. Also Pratchett's Lancre subseries of Discworld is decidedly rural in some important ways.
Well at the World's End comes to mind, though in fairness, it's been years since I've read the book. Also Pratchett's Lance subseries of Discworld is decidedly rural in some important ways.
"George Church, a synthetic biologist at Harvard Medical School,"
How do you make a synthetic biologist? Won't the natural ones complain?
How do you make a synthetic biologist? Won't the natural ones complain?
This was done to the Fairmont Hotel in San Antonio in 1985.
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Never seen a street that clean or quiet anywhere in China. It really does look like a movie set...
