Episode 108 – Film Rights, KU Recruiting, and Writing Sprints (with Monica Leonelle)

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Question of the Week: If you had the opportunity to sell your film rights tomorrow for a small sum, would you sell them or would you hold on to them in hopes of actually getting your film made?

With Jim on a boat somewhere, Bryan invited fiction and nonfiction author Monica Leonelle to the show! After thanking patron Emma Alisyn (and her book Character Sketch & Color http://bit.ly/emcolor ), Monica & Bryan focused their energy on tips about BookBub, indie pressure, and writing sprints. News stories included the Pulitzer Prize push, Kindle Scout naysayers, Google Play, Amazon’s publisher recruitment for KU, who loses most when scammers win, and indie film rights. This week’s Question of the Week: “If you had the opportunity to sell your film rights tomorrow for a small sum, would you sell them or would you hold on to them in hopes of actually getting your film made?”
What You’ll Learn:
  • How to get more followers on BookBub
  • How to deal with the pressure of being an author
  • How much you can get accomplished with short, timed writing sprints
  • How many sales winning a Pulitzer Prize can get you
  • Whether or not the Kindle Scout program is worth it
  • Why Nate Hoffelder thinks the Google Play Partner Center will never re-open
  • What Amazon is doing to try to boost KU’s participants
  • Who really loses when scammers win on KU
  • Whether or not indies should sell their film rights
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Question of the Week: If you had the opportunity to sell your film rights tomorrow for a small sum, would you sell them or would you hold on to them in hopes of actually getting your film made?

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