Comments on: The Perils of Colleen Part V: The Dish Best Served Cold, and I Don’t Mean Borscht http://adistantsoil.com/2009/07/02/the-perils-of-colleen-part-v-the-dish-best-served-cold-and-i-dont-mean-borscht/ The Official Website of A Distant Soil, the legendary graphic novel series from Image Comics. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Perils of Colleen Part IV: Once again, with screaming… | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran http://adistantsoil.com/2009/07/02/the-perils-of-colleen-part-v-the-dish-best-served-cold-and-i-dont-mean-borscht/#comment-6935 The Perils of Colleen Part IV: Once again, with screaming… | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:12:20 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1102#comment-6935 [...] CLICK HERE FOR PART V. └ Tags: 101 Things Your Publisher Doesn't Want You to Know, advice, Comics, Comics History, creator rights, FAN FROM HELL, From Eroica with Love, Harlan Ellison, manga, publishing, Very Bad Publishers [...] [...] CLICK HERE FOR PART V. └ Tags: 101 Things Your Publisher Doesn't Want You to Know, advice, Comics, Comics History, creator rights, FAN FROM HELL, From Eroica with Love, Harlan Ellison, manga, publishing, Very Bad Publishers [...]

]]> By: oldcqr http://adistantsoil.com/2009/07/02/the-perils-of-colleen-part-v-the-dish-best-served-cold-and-i-dont-mean-borscht/#comment-1642 oldcqr Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:55:32 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1102#comment-1642 I too am a writer, but not of books/GNs, but of software. I recently started my own company (much like self publishing), but I still catch myself doing jobs for free or a pittance, or being asked to take less than my worth. It's amazing how much independent software development parallels being an independent author. I can definitely understand how it's easy to be sucked into doing things for next to nothing: It is my craft. I think of my code as art not science. Artists should create for the love of creation and not the money, etc.. etc.. etc.. To further complicate things, the companies I typically create my code for are small - much like the small publisher you slav.. er... worked for. :) I am slowly learning from authors like you and Mark Evanier, who's blog referred me to you, that it's OK to make a profit. I have taken a few of your paragraphs, the ones talking about fans expecting to purchase your work at cost, and printed/framed them. Hopefully the next time I do a job I'll look at them, and then without guilt price my work at what it is worth. Good will does not pay the mortgage! I too am a writer, but not of books/GNs, but of software. I recently started my own company (much like self publishing), but I still catch myself doing jobs for free or a pittance, or being asked to take less than my worth.

It’s amazing how much independent software development parallels being an independent author. I can definitely understand how it’s easy to be sucked into doing things for next to nothing: It is my craft. I think of my code as art not science. Artists should create for the love of creation and not the money, etc.. etc.. etc..

To further complicate things, the companies I typically create my code for are small – much like the small publisher you slav.. er… worked for. :)

I am slowly learning from authors like you and Mark Evanier, who’s blog referred me to you, that it’s OK to make a profit. I have taken a few of your paragraphs, the ones talking about fans expecting to purchase your work at cost, and printed/framed them. Hopefully the next time I do a job I’ll look at them, and then without guilt price my work at what it is worth. Good will does not pay the mortgage!

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/07/02/the-perils-of-colleen-part-v-the-dish-best-served-cold-and-i-dont-mean-borscht/#comment-1612 Colleen Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:30:10 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1102#comment-1612 Pre-internet, pre-email. I would not even have a computer for years. Snail mail letters. I know they hired private detectives, I know they had our correspondence. How did they get it? Someone had to have been in our homes. No one was charged. And back then, you could actually hear the beeping from the tap on the line. Pre-internet, pre-email. I would not even have a computer for years.

Snail mail letters.

I know they hired private detectives, I know they had our correspondence.

How did they get it?

Someone had to have been in our homes.

No one was charged.

And back then, you could actually hear the beeping from the tap on the line.

]]> By: scribblerworks http://adistantsoil.com/2009/07/02/the-perils-of-colleen-part-v-the-dish-best-served-cold-and-i-dont-mean-borscht/#comment-1611 scribblerworks Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:55:20 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1102#comment-1611 Thinking about it, though, the idea that they had actually gotten their hands on your correspondence - that's really creepy. I take it this was hard-copy correspondence that they had to get physically? Or was it online, and therefore hackable? Invasion of privacy on that level is really creepy, and I'd love to know that the "private detectives" were actually charged with breaking and entering. But I like dreams that way. Thinking about it, though, the idea that they had actually gotten their hands on your correspondence – that’s really creepy. I take it this was hard-copy correspondence that they had to get physically? Or was it online, and therefore hackable?

Invasion of privacy on that level is really creepy, and I’d love to know that the “private detectives” were actually charged with breaking and entering. But I like dreams that way.

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/07/02/the-perils-of-colleen-part-v-the-dish-best-served-cold-and-i-dont-mean-borscht/#comment-1603 Colleen Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:56:52 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=1102#comment-1603 Jeremy, you 'aint seen nothing, yet. From here on in, its comedy. Jeremy, you ‘aint seen nothing, yet. From here on in, its comedy.

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