Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Well it's quite a good week to be focusing on one of my favorite subjects – promoting professional geekery, the idea that people can (and in many cases) should turn what they love into a career. It's "Speak Out With Your Geek Out" and let me focus on #4: Starting The Damn Blog.
Why not just Starting The Blog? Because you (and others) have thought about a blog so often that it's not just "the blog I want to start" it's "the damn blog I should get to."
So, start it.
26 Days Until Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers,
So I'm facing converting a book of 180+ pages if it was my usual 6"x9" print book to three e-formats: Kindle, ePub, and PDF.
Pretty much this means Open Office.
A lot of us work in or want to produce media, including fiction. For those of us writing fiction, or planning to film it, or whatever, there may be some concerns about how to deal with fanfic and the like. Fans are why we're here and how we get paid, and their fanworks help promote our works and draw everyone into a community. However fanworks can also accidentally "brand" your work, something creators don't always seek or like – as we've had discussed here by our own Rob Barba.
I'm pro-fanwork as long as there's mutual respect and understanding. I also know some authors fear what happens when people begin "playing in their world," and it's not always irrational (i can immediately think of two series I avoided due to fanfic battles and fanwank that gave me the wrong impression). For authors and creators who want the best of both worlds, I had an idea.