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Aspiring Writers Info: About Royalty Statements
And yes, professional writers, if you've missed this post, you need to read it. It's from writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch, an astute eye on the writing industry as a whole as well as a talented writer and editor. This essay is an update on royalty statements. She did a post last year on the topic, and here's what has changed (or not) since then.
Sadly, her site was hacked the day this post went up. Was it because a script kiddie saw she had high numbers on Thursdays, and posted malware to her site? Was it because someone didn't want the post to be seen? Unknown at this time. But this IS a post you should read, professional writer or aspiring writer. I've linked to it at the always interesting The Passive Voice, who is among many mirroring Kris's post.
I will confess that this is causing me to make a list of my "will compromise" and "won't compromise" items for book negotiation. Wondering if I'm going to be self-publishing from now on.
There's no link to Kris's blog right now because her other sites are under attack, too. You might give her the rest of the weekend to scrub the place. But you can find her through the search engines later -- and her blog is well worth your time!
Sadly, her site was hacked the day this post went up. Was it because a script kiddie saw she had high numbers on Thursdays, and posted malware to her site? Was it because someone didn't want the post to be seen? Unknown at this time. But this IS a post you should read, professional writer or aspiring writer. I've linked to it at the always interesting The Passive Voice, who is among many mirroring Kris's post.
I will confess that this is causing me to make a list of my "will compromise" and "won't compromise" items for book negotiation. Wondering if I'm going to be self-publishing from now on.
There's no link to Kris's blog right now because her other sites are under attack, too. You might give her the rest of the weekend to scrub the place. But you can find her through the search engines later -- and her blog is well worth your time!
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I regret to say that this is scare-mongering of the same type that Fox "news" uses, as in: "It is as yet unknown whether there are any links between the bridge bombers and the Occupy movement."* If you don't know, don't suggest -- it just plays into the paranoia. Which of course is what Fox wants, but I don't think you do.
* Actual statement from one of their broadcasts.
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Someone may have hit her because she has high numbers on Thursday, and the idea with malware is to disrupt something visibly. This has been serious enough that it has followed Kris to multiple sites. She's had to hire someone with a national reputation in site cleansing and protection to straighten it out, after days of trying with talented friends.
So -- someone p****d at her? Someone tired of her columns giving people so much info that it's affecting negotiations at the Big 6? (NOTE: I sometimes get as much info from ONE of Kris's columns as I used to get from an entire weekend swapping info at an SF convention.)
Perhaps what I should have said was "Kris is under attack at multiple sites. I recommend reading this on someone's mirror, and waiting a few days before trying her links, unless you have stellar protections on your machine."