Next Noble Pen Meeting

June 21st, 2012 at 7 pm

Scott’s Family Restaurant

1906 Blairs Ferry Rd NE, Cedar Rapids

News

Google reached an agreement to settle a dispute over their digitization of books in France.

Victories

Dylan finished a 15k word commission at 30k words.  That’s closer than the last one.  He also got another commission.  Unfortunately, Flight was rejected by the big publisher he had hoped would buy it.

Kris gave out beta copies of Oblivion to several readers.  She got paid for cover art for a book.

Ciuin is busily reworking Petty Theft, applying the advice of her teacher.

Education

Writers who get signed to a publisher have a lot of contract terms to understand.  Joe Konrath blogs about some of the gotcha clauses in contracts.

While we’re on legal topics, here’s some discussion for anyone who considers writing fan fiction.

“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.” Groucho Marx

Upcoming Schedule

June 21st

Tyree
Bill (double, since no one asked for 3rd slot)

June 28th

Bill
Ciuin
Open slot

July 5th

Nick
Ian
Bill ?

July 12th

Bill
Open slots

Keep Writing,

Bill