Sometimes its better to not look behind the curtain.

I’m sitting in my loft watching a summer storm pass by and thinking of what I did today. Writing wise… nothing. But I did do something involved with my writing. I’ve been dealing with contracts lately. The first time I had a book published, I was the publisher and there was not contract. When I did work for Humanoids and Avatar, the contracts were work for hire so pretty straight forward… I got cash and they got everything else. The first time I noticed a change was with Blood-Stained Sword; a creator owned property with clauses talking about movie rights, licensing agreements and foreign distribution. Nothing I had to deal with before.

Now I am in the middle of not one, but two contract negotiations (I feel funny calling them that but I guess that’s what they are) and the main reason for the ‘negotiations’ is the fact I have an agent and it’s in my contract that he is involved in anything having to do with film or television rights… and both these contracts mention that. So I have to run the contracts by my agent and he is of course looking out for my best interest.

Now, I’m not complaining… I’m lucky to be even having to sign contracts or have an agent. I just find it funny how the further along you get the more complicated things become.