Sharing Issues, Ideas and Thoughts
I've spent the majority of the last two days sharing, reading, posting, with people on Linkedin and Writer's Digest Community. It dawns on m there there are a lot of friendly, helpful an smart people out there. It is funny how the same concerns, questions, and themes keep showing up.
I started a discussion on a collaborated effort of Artists, Movie Makers, and Authors. I now want to add a fourth element to this which Professional Editing.
A gentleman by the name of Carter Harkins, says affiliated with both sides of the fence on this issue and he suggested a means by which Artists, Editors, and Movie Makers (for Trailers) could set a price for said work, contribute their portion to the work in question, then they would get a percentage of the book until that amount was reached and then they would paid in full and after the Author has paid them all back the rest of full proceeds would be the authors from then on out.
If your already a starving artist, you could starve a little longer for Professional Help. In a scenario such as this everybody would be getting work. Better Art covers, trailers (good or bad, what you dreamed of or not, it would rely on who you choose, the price you set, etc.), professionally edited work. This would definitely bring up the level of Indie Authors to a more professional level to that of the Big Publishing companies. We would sell more books! Eventually make more money. We would definitely be noticed more easily. Especially if Artists were promoting 'Say check out this book, I did the cover Art!!'
Movie makers sharing the trailer around promoting their work with a link to your book. Every time we sell a book they get closer to be paid off for their contribution to it.
Carter Harkins is right on track. Still need a web site, or some place like Smashwords to step up and be the on stop shop, where as Authors are working on their next project they sign in and sign up and collaborate with the artists, editors, an trailer makers so it can all come together as a finished product. Each team doing what they do, to the best of their ability, for the price negotiated in the process of deciding how intricate and much work is needed to finish each piece. Bring it all together as a finished product, everybody promoting it through their friends and networks, from where ever they happen to reside.
As I write this we could add a fifth element of Promotion, and let the promotional experts do their thing and cut down on the cheesy self promoting posts on the social sites and have it successfully promoted, reviewed, interviews of Artists, Writers, Movie makers, Editors (the unheralded heroes behind many great works, who hardly ever get mentioned).
If properly done this would be huge. I predict their would be a flood to the site, to collaborate together, share, and promote every body's work. It would be overwhelming at first. The Big Publishers would really come up short because then the Indie Publishers could compete professionally on the same level they do, and pay their way to doing it. This is a work in progress. Stay tuned....
I started a discussion on a collaborated effort of Artists, Movie Makers, and Authors. I now want to add a fourth element to this which Professional Editing.
A gentleman by the name of Carter Harkins, says affiliated with both sides of the fence on this issue and he suggested a means by which Artists, Editors, and Movie Makers (for Trailers) could set a price for said work, contribute their portion to the work in question, then they would get a percentage of the book until that amount was reached and then they would paid in full and after the Author has paid them all back the rest of full proceeds would be the authors from then on out.
If your already a starving artist, you could starve a little longer for Professional Help. In a scenario such as this everybody would be getting work. Better Art covers, trailers (good or bad, what you dreamed of or not, it would rely on who you choose, the price you set, etc.), professionally edited work. This would definitely bring up the level of Indie Authors to a more professional level to that of the Big Publishing companies. We would sell more books! Eventually make more money. We would definitely be noticed more easily. Especially if Artists were promoting 'Say check out this book, I did the cover Art!!'
Movie makers sharing the trailer around promoting their work with a link to your book. Every time we sell a book they get closer to be paid off for their contribution to it.
Carter Harkins is right on track. Still need a web site, or some place like Smashwords to step up and be the on stop shop, where as Authors are working on their next project they sign in and sign up and collaborate with the artists, editors, an trailer makers so it can all come together as a finished product. Each team doing what they do, to the best of their ability, for the price negotiated in the process of deciding how intricate and much work is needed to finish each piece. Bring it all together as a finished product, everybody promoting it through their friends and networks, from where ever they happen to reside.
As I write this we could add a fifth element of Promotion, and let the promotional experts do their thing and cut down on the cheesy self promoting posts on the social sites and have it successfully promoted, reviewed, interviews of Artists, Writers, Movie makers, Editors (the unheralded heroes behind many great works, who hardly ever get mentioned).
If properly done this would be huge. I predict their would be a flood to the site, to collaborate together, share, and promote every body's work. It would be overwhelming at first. The Big Publishers would really come up short because then the Indie Publishers could compete professionally on the same level they do, and pay their way to doing it. This is a work in progress. Stay tuned....
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