This week Kelly and JJ talk about CONTRACTS. Yes, contracts. No, it’s not boring, we promise. Also, how Ernest Hemingway can help you write middle grade and how everything is still Hamilton. EVERYTHING WILL ALWAYS BE HAMILTON.
Show Notes
We haven’t written a ton on the subject of contracts here at PubCrawl, but here is a post by alumni Joanna Volpe and Jordan Hamessley-London:
TL;DR (or TL;DL for Too Long, Didn’t Listen), the three most important clauses to which you should pay attention in your contract are:
- Rights of Termination
- Delivery
- Option/Non-Compete
Creative Endeavors
JJ is still working on her middle grade novel and is reading Ernest Hemingway for research. Not because her middle grade is about bullfighting and notions of masculinity, but because from a craft perspective, no one does spare yet emotionally resonant better than Hemingway.
Books Discussed This Week
- The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Duck Sock Hop by Jane Kohuth, illustrated by Jane Porter
- Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- the whimsical works of Diana Wynne Jones
- The Dark is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper
- The League of Seven by Alan Gratz
Off-Menu Recommendations
- Alpha Bear game
- Sailor Moon manga, the not-so-good TokyoPop versions and the much better Kodansha reissues
- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (Good news! It is translated into English!)
- Sandman by Neil Gaiman
- Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
- Miss Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
That’s it for this week! Next week, we will be talking about how to take a story FROM BRAIN TO BOOK: A Look Into the Behind-the-Scenes Publishing Process. As always, if you have any questions or comments, sound off in the comments, or ask us on Tumblr!