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Chocmint Newsletter>
Collaboration Celebration
October 25, 2006
Those of you who have already written stories that haven't
been published will know how hard it is to even get a reply
from a publisher, let alone an acceptance letter.
We have a project going which we have called 'Something
Different'. Only a working title, but it might stick.
The project is to build up a series of stories and
illustrations for children, written by children, to be
published in a 3-D, turn the page e-book.
All proceeds from this book will be sent directly to an
orphanage set up in Kitgum, Uganda by Murray Kidd.
Now while that work is in progress, I just had an idea and
had to share it.
We all contribute a story, or more, to an e-book I will
create using Desktop Author software. This book can then be
sold by all of us, using whatever means we like. We can
burn them onto discs, sell them from blogs, websites, forum
pages, wherever we meet people.
We would all have rights to sell these books. A price for
the book would be set and we'd all keep 100% of any sales
we make.
The other way of doing it would be to divide the proceeds
from each book, but I think that would get complicated and
hard to manage. Not to mention time consuming!
Any thoughts? This would be for writers and illustrators,
and people can collaborate to make it happen.
Collaboration with the right person is often the key to
whether a great idea actually happens or not. Doing it
alone is not only hard, but unnecessary and impractical as
well :o)
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