Other anthologies don't compensate contributing authors financially; however, many non-paying anthologies donate the sales proceeds to charity or to the nonprofit organization that sponsored the publication.
Not exact matches
Trev, I
do strongly agree with your earlier suggestion that this post should join many
other classic posts by by H» in an
anthology.
Other Feature Films I'm Looking Forward To Seeing: Gillian Robespierre's Landline, Macon Blair's I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, Brett Haley's The Hero, Matt Spicer's Ingrid Goes West, Michael Almereyda's sci - fi Marjorie Prime, Dee Rees» Mudbound, Mark Palansky's sci - fi Rememory, Taylor Sheridan's Wind River, Michael Showalter's The Big Sick, Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome, Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion's Bushwick, and the all - female horror
anthology XX.
In
other news, Ryan Murphy, who has yet to meet an 80s or 90s cinema goddess he doesn't want to shower with a juicy part (see: Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett), has conscripted Jamie Lee Curtis for his upcoming horror / comedy
anthology series, Scream Queens.
She has
done a whole
other host of weirdness, including work at Steampunk Chronicle, Nerdophiles, the Ratchet Retrocast, The Rainbow Hub, PopOptiq and the Killer Queen and 27
anthologies published through Red Stylo Media.
The differences might seem obvious to a human, but if you have a boxset or
anthology with multiple
other authors, and you're all
doing heavy promotion and ads and getting lots of sales or downloads quickly, your book might get flagged and removed from the system until Amazon can take a closer look.
Instead of wanting to own the whole cocky pie, the author should have considered
doing a cocky
anthology with
other writers who use the word in their titles.
My most recent publication is TICK TOCK: Seven Tales of Time, an
anthology I
did with six
other RMFW members through our publishing company, Wicked Ink Books.
Teachers — have you ever wanted to
do a classroom project of students» short stories, an
anthology, poetry book, comic book, or
other creative writing?
Once you've got a bunch of credits, you can self - publish your own
anthology (or
do it jointly with some
other flash - fic writers) People will know the stories have been vetted, so they're much more likely to buy.
I felt and still
do that it's a compelling idea to build your own
anthology, and then take it around with you on your phone or
other device.
So far, the company has invited American artists to
do covers and
other special art for manga volumes, but when the USA branch of the company brought up the idea for a Western - created
anthology, everyone got on board.
But we're also
doing «pre-press» on a couple of new Monkeybrain Comics titles, reviewing a super-cool
anthology project that asked me for a cover blurb, and
other stuff like that.
One thing that struck me was that ideally, we want to have a children's comic as well, but it just doesn't sit well alongside the
others in the
anthology which are more clearly adult.
The
other half doesn't want to wait and read it piecemeal; they wait until a collection is finished and read a group of them in novel /
anthology format.
Having a longer view, lower risk option with self - publishing definitely allows for things like seasonal tales, short stories,
anthologies, and
other things that don't have a wide enough market for publishers to take it on.
You can also get together with
other authors in your genre and each contribute a story for an
anthology, as
did Kill Zone authors in 2010, with Fresh Kills, Tales from The Kill Zone.
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Anthology Working with
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Adult titles
do best in indie, YA
does well (especially those with cross-over appeal), and even literary novels,
anthologies, shorts and
other forms are starting to have success.
I've talked before about how
doing boxsets and
anthologies can be great for building your author platform — not only to reach more readers, but also to build long term relationships with
other authors in your genre.