Part three of three.
Part One
Part Two
Ok, so we’ve covered what a copyright is, and what it means to sell rights to publish a work. Now we’ll talk about bad ways to loose your first rights.
One bad way we’ve covered is to post your work online for free without having a clear plan on how [...] Read more »

Part two of three.
Part One.
Yesterday I talked about what a copyright is, how to obtain one, and what it means. Today I am going to talk about this concept of selling rights of publication for your work. When you submit a piece of writing to a market, you are offering them chance – or the [...] Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Zooty & Flapper, a “pre-publishing site” that several sites, including Storycrafters and Writers Beware, warned authors off of as it took away a writer’s first publishing rights for very little payoff. The proprietor of said Z&F site, Mr. Pappalardo, who apparently is tracking down and commenting on [...] Read more »

I was web-hopping around this last Friday, visiting links from my fellow High-Fivers, when I ended up on the blog StoryCrafters. I started digging into it, and soon read an article titled” I’m a Mazzikin, or is that mizzikin?” that started out with the phrase:
I hadn’t been over to the Zooty & Flapper site for [...] Read more »