Comments on: Filthy lucre http://theblackletters.net/filthy-lucre/ a literary blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:01:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Emera http://theblackletters.net/filthy-lucre/comment-page-1/#comment-1742 Emera Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:34:44 +0000 http://theblackletters.net/?p=1982#comment-1742 Yeah, I loved the Hoyt post - once you get over the depressing reality check, it's so useful to know, very concretely, what to expect. That would definitely be something I'd be interested in hearing! It seems scarily easy for authors to get shafted when it comes to things like film and foreign-language rights. I know Caitlin Kiernan was forced to give up rights to foreign-language royalties on her novelization of the Beowulf movie - which subsequently became a strong seller in China. :/ Yeah, I loved the Hoyt post – once you get over the depressing reality check, it’s so useful to know, very concretely, what to expect.

That would definitely be something I’d be interested in hearing! It seems scarily easy for authors to get shafted when it comes to things like film and foreign-language rights. I know Caitlin Kiernan was forced to give up rights to foreign-language royalties on her novelization of the Beowulf movie – which subsequently became a strong seller in China. :/

]]> By: kakaner http://theblackletters.net/filthy-lucre/comment-page-1/#comment-1741 kakaner Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:04:05 +0000 http://theblackletters.net/?p=1982#comment-1741 Thanks for this post! Of course you just wasted 1 hour of my time I should have spent writing, but the Hoyt post is downright fascinating and I like having these all in one place. Especially the stats about novel selling. Nowadays you only ever hear about the 6 figure advances because.. they're the only ones worth talking about. You know, speaking of which, maybe someday we can ask isaac marion to describe how his warm bodies did... give all the languages as film rights??? Thanks for this post! Of course you just wasted 1 hour of my time I should have spent writing, but the Hoyt post is downright fascinating and I like having these all in one place. Especially the stats about novel selling. Nowadays you only ever hear about the 6 figure advances because.. they’re the only ones worth talking about.

You know, speaking of which, maybe someday we can ask isaac marion to describe how his warm bodies did… give all the languages as film rights???

]]>