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Recommended Reading List: April 2024
Still playing catch-up from our incredibly weird year. I’m not sure it was a bad year, because we got rid of a huge ugly problem in our lives, one we didn’t even know we had until January, and our...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: My Own Little Store
To get a free audio version of this post, click here. Let me simply put it this way: Mind. Blown. Seriously. WMG Publishing just completed a specialty store for my Diving series. The store features...
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Business Musings: Longevity: Licensing Expo 2022
After a tumultuous two weeks, I’m returning to my blogs about the Las Vegas Licensing Expo, held in May of this year. Because I had an unexpectedly rocky start to June (chronic health fun), I wasn’t...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Licensing Expo 2022
The Las Vegas Licensing Expo happened in person for the first time since 2019. We attended, along with 12 writers from our classes, and a number of colleagues and friends. WMG Publishing had quite a...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Disney, Omnichannel, and Contracts (Licensing)
Because I got behind on the news in the spring, and because, due to the busiest fall I’m going to have in more than a decade with all of my work and deadlines, I am writing my weekly blogs weeks in...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: TV/Film (Fear-Based Decision-Making Part 3)
I thought I had my arms wrapped around this subsection of my very large topic, with an assist from an article I found about fear-based decision-making in directors. I saved it in my Pocket app after...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Time and Licensing (Licensing/Contracts)
I’ve spent much of the past week on licensing for my Diving Universe. Some of this is because of the Kickstarter we’re running right now. Kickstarters can garner a lot of attention for a project, the...
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A Diving Universe Game!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve partnered with Catalyst Game Labs to develop a Diving Into The Wreck Game. This game is a card & dice game that will allow you to adventure the way that Boss and...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Lockdown Licensing Partnerships
Somewhere around the middle of March, I got an email from one of the television producers I’ve worked with for three years now. He asked for an extension of our agreement, which expires in June. A...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Then And Now
Recently, Dean told me about a conversation he was having on Facebook with a group of writers who, in the 1990s, shared the table of contents in an anthology featuring stories about the X-Men....
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Die Hard (Licensing)
In July of 2018, Bruce Willis emphatically stated (at his Comedy Central roast) that the 1988 movie Die Hard, which made him an action star, “is not a Christmas movie.” It is, he said, “a goddamn Bruce...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Paradigm Shift (Rethinking The Writing Business Part 16)
I knew, when we planned this year’s Business Master Class, that bringing in a representative from the Global Licensing Group would be essential for the business-minded writers who were attending. I did...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: But I Can’t Afford…(Rethinking The Writing Business Part 15)
As I’ve worked my way through this series, I’ve panicked many of you. I’ve panicked myself. Switching your focus from being a writer of a few books to running a business based on licensing is a lot of...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Three Kinds of Writers (Rethinking The Writing Business...
In the middle of September, an article on Medium.com went viral. In an article titled “How To Lose A Third of A Million Dollars Without Really Trying,” the writer managed to blame everyone but herself...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Expect Failure
Not too long ago, I made a suggestion to someone I’m working with. I thought we should send our project to a Big Name Magazine, for consideration in one of the many things they’re doing. (Yes, I’m...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Money 2 Licensing Out (Rethinking The Writing Business Part...
So, those of you who regularly read this blog are thinking, now are we going to talk about how much we can earn? Yeah, kinda sorta. I want those of you who haven’t yet read this series to read two...
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Business Musings: Money 1 Licensing In (Rethinking The Writing Business Part...
See that piece of art at the top of this post? I licensed that cartoon through Canstock Photo, which I generally use for these posts. There are other stock art licensing sites, and WMG Publishing uses...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Time Management Again (Rethinking The Writing Business Part...
So I freaked some of you out with the Decision Tree for licensing projects, which was the subject of the last post. I know this because many of you defaulted to the tried-and-true “I’m not famous...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: The Decision Tree (Rethinking The Writing Business Part Eight)
At a dinner a few nights ago, Dean said that he was having trouble figuring out how to talk about some of the steps we make in licensing. Dean’s the one who is the face of our workshops, and we’re...
View ArticleBusiness Musings: Expect Success
I’ve been doing a series on licensing for writers, which is subtitled “Rethinking the Writing Business.” Normally, I would put this particular blog as Part 8 of the series, but I’m afraid that would...
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