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20-Minute Book Marketing Podcast: Lissy Peace on Selling Movie Rights

By John Kremer on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

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Listen in as Lissy Peace talks about selling movie, TV, and related rights for your books. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Here are a few of the selling points she made during the podcast: Many of the most successful movies are based on books. Besides movies, there are so many other opportunities now: [...]

Movie Rights: How Do I Get a Movie Deal?

By John Kremer on Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 | No Comments

Question: How do I get a movie deal based on my book? Answer: That question is far too general for me to answer in any detailed way. First, I know nothing about your book – and that is important. Second, movie deals are very complicated animals. Third, most movie deals involve as many as a [...]

Story Contests: What Are Your Rights?

By John Kremer on Friday, April 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Question: I plan to submit a very short and revised portion of my still unpublished book to a contest. The rules say the sponsor retains “one-time publication rights” to the material if it is the grand prize or first place winner. Could you please tell me what that means? Would it preclude me from publishing [...]

Selling Rights: What’s a Good Price?

By John Kremer on Thursday, April 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Question: John, I wrote a book on Hearts published by Author House. I have 100% rights. I wrote the book several years ago, but I have been unable to market it and am facing some real hardships now. I don’t have a clue how to go about marketing for this and simply don’t have time [...]