Protect Your Rights!
Feb. 22nd, 2007 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrockwellWriting
*Submission, ASIM, 2/22
Okay, a PSA/rant to all authors/poets. ANYTHING posted on a public website is considered previously published! That means you lose first rights when you put your story or poem up for critique on your writing group's open forum, and if you try to sell it to an editor later, you can only offer REPRINT rights. Get it? If you need feedback, get it in a password-protected forum! And, by God, if you DO decide to send something posted like that to an editor anyway, you better make SURE you let them know it's a reprint, or you are going to make their black list faster than you can say "delete unread." Editors do not like authors/poets who waste their time. Just so you know.
Everything Else
Ugh. We just got a letter from the IRS saying we owe them about $2300 in taxes from last year. Friggin' H&R Block. That's the LAST time we get our taxes done there. For what they charge, we could get a real CPA to do it, and avoid these nasty little surprises.
*Submission, ASIM, 2/22
Okay, a PSA/rant to all authors/poets. ANYTHING posted on a public website is considered previously published! That means you lose first rights when you put your story or poem up for critique on your writing group's open forum, and if you try to sell it to an editor later, you can only offer REPRINT rights. Get it? If you need feedback, get it in a password-protected forum! And, by God, if you DO decide to send something posted like that to an editor anyway, you better make SURE you let them know it's a reprint, or you are going to make their black list faster than you can say "delete unread." Editors do not like authors/poets who waste their time. Just so you know.
Everything Else
Ugh. We just got a letter from the IRS saying we owe them about $2300 in taxes from last year. Friggin' H&R Block. That's the LAST time we get our taxes done there. For what they charge, we could get a real CPA to do it, and avoid these nasty little surprises.
