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New Picard Show Surprising…
Almost Like Next Gen Trek… Kris and I gave up on Picard season 2 about halfway. Too stupid for words and I have hated “Q” from the very start. I hated buying “Q” stories for the Strange New Worlds anthology series for a decade, but them some writer would write a great “Q” story and make me buy it. Annoyed me every time. So this year we decided to watch the first episode tonight of Picard when it dropped and shocker!!! It was actually Trek, with the cool ships, the great characters, big bad unseen aliens, and battle scenes. So much fun. Worth watching it. Sort of like Next Gen…
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Home Safely
Watched The Game… Then fixed a few workshops that had glitched and not loaded week #6 while I was gone. Sorry about that. The Superstars conference was great fun and I loved all the conversations with other writers. And I learned a ton, right up and through the dinner with Mark and Kevin and Allyson and Rebecca after closing ceremonies. I think over the week I had at least five different business meetings, and then a ton of great lunches and dinners and just sitting and talking with great writers like Robert Jeschonek and Joanna Penn. Super fun. Thanks, all, for the great conversations. I got great feedback on my…
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Last Day At Superstars..
Headed For the Airport in 6 Hours… My normal sleep and work schedule is so, so screwed up…But it was worth it, with all the great people here to talk writing with. I miss that, so hoping to come back next year here. I will be at Writers of the Future in Hollywood in April and then 20Books in November. That and a lot of writing this year is my plan. Had a great lunch talking thrillers, then a great meeting, then really fun watching the closing ceremonies. Then dinner with Kevin and Rebecca and Mark Leslie and Allyson. Perfect way to end the great week. So baring unforeseens, home…
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Another Great Day at Superstars
Very Busy Day Breakfast at 7am mountain time. Did a two hour presentation of Writing into the Dark at 9 am. Lunch with Allyson and Robert Jeschonek, which was great fun. Then a Kickstarter panel, then a Writers of the Future panel. Both were fun and seemed to go well. Then special dinner with seven writers who had paid to sit with me at a nifty restaurant up on a hill outside of Colorado Springs. Great people and a lot of questions and fun. Then back to the bar at the hotel to sit and talk and I told a bunch of stories that I hoped did not offend or…
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First Day Superstars…
Even Though I Have Been Teaching for Two Days… Yesterday was what they call the craft day and today day one… I think the Licensing Your IP talk I did went all right. Said a lot of stuff the newer writers had not thought about. And learned a bunch about estate planning for writers from an attorney who was a specialist in it who did a talk and thenI was on a panel with him as well the next hour. Really fun. Only got about four hours last night of sleep, so two short naps between stuff today keep me going. Great breakfast with Allyson and Mark, great talk later…
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7:30 AM… Mountain Time
Had Breakfast with Todd McCaffery… Realize that is 6:30 my time and I normally go to bed at 3 am or after, so it was brutal. Tomorrow breakfast at 7:30 am again, this time with Allyson, then I am on a estate planning panel and then in the afternoon I do an hour-plus talk on licensing your IP. That should be fun. I think I hurt a few writer’s heads today in my editing talk for the modern world. But I had fun. (Grin) This evening a mind-bending dinner with Joanna Penn, Mark Leslie, and Kevin J. Anderson. Really fun learning with really wonderful people. After a book signing, it…
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At Superstars
Today Almost All Travel… And I managed it just fine with help from Kris and Allyson and Kevin Anderson and then Mark Lesley helping me not trip on anything on the way back from dinner once I arrived. Kris got me to the Vegas airport and I flew first class to Denver, which helped with getting on the plane at my own pace. Then when I got off the plane in Denver, Allyson on the phone helped me find my next gate and get me to it in plenty of time. Signs are still tough to read. In Colorado Springs Kevin J, Anderson and Rebecca Modesto picked me up and…
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Another Fun Running Post…
Got Some Fantastic Pictures The professional photographer with Calico Racing, the great folks that put on this last weekend’s 5K took these pictures. The first one is Kris zooming past me… Yes Kris can zoom. Notice the enjoyment she is getting out of leaving me in the dust. Second picture me running… Third picture is of Kris running. I think this might be one of the best pictures of Kris ever taken. Can’t tell we really love staying in shape, can you?
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Another Note on Copyright Valuation
Head-Shaking But True… I talk copyright on this blog in any way and the letters and comments just dry up like they were hit by a bad desert wind on a hot summer day. Fun to watch, and I know these posts are just skipped by most. Makes them uncomfortable. But on the last valuation posts, I got a couple of private comments that went something like this… “How can my copyright be worth anything if I only sell a couple copies a month?” Or… “I am a new writer, my work has no value.” Well, in some ways, past performance and sales do help set value at that moment…
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More Copyright Valuation
Main Way of Valuing Fiction… If you haven’t read the previous posts on this topic, might want to go back and do so. Or read them again. And if you don’t understand copyright, much of this will just go past you I’m afraid. So I mentioned one way of valuing copyright. I called it the “Cost Method” because you just add up all the costs of producing the book and that is the value. That method flat doesn’t work past putting a value on covers and a few other design elements. But it is the easy one to understand for most. Now to be clear right here… I am not…