Comments on: Your Lives Will be a Lot Simpler If Some of You Would Just Listen To Me Right Now. http://adistantsoil.com/2009/09/01/your-lives-will-be-a-lot-simpler-if-some-of-you-would-just-listen-to-me-right-now/ 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: Welcome, Art Students! | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran http://adistantsoil.com/2009/09/01/your-lives-will-be-a-lot-simpler-if-some-of-you-would-just-listen-to-me-right-now/#comment-4570 Welcome, Art Students! | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:38:48 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=3903#comment-4570 [...] Book Packagers Behaving Badly: just because you have a book contract, that does NOT mean the publisher is on the hook for what happens to you. Dearest Freelancer, I hate to break it to you, but when your creep of a book packager attempts to dazzle you with their connection to the Big Name Publisher, you do realize that you do NOT work for the Big Name Publisher, you actually work for the creep of a book packager. You do not have ANY agreement with the publisher. You have an agreement with the PACKAGER. Therefore, you do not get any perks, any cache, any brownie points whatsoever for your credit with Big Name Publisher. The packager does. [...] [...] Book Packagers Behaving Badly: just because you have a book contract, that does NOT mean the publisher is on the hook for what happens to you. Dearest Freelancer, I hate to break it to you, but when your creep of a book packager attempts to dazzle you with their connection to the Big Name Publisher, you do realize that you do NOT work for the Big Name Publisher, you actually work for the creep of a book packager. You do not have ANY agreement with the publisher. You have an agreement with the PACKAGER. Therefore, you do not get any perks, any cache, any brownie points whatsoever for your credit with Big Name Publisher. The packager does. [...]

]]> By: Colleen http://adistantsoil.com/2009/09/01/your-lives-will-be-a-lot-simpler-if-some-of-you-would-just-listen-to-me-right-now/#comment-1996 Colleen Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:02:46 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=3903#comment-1996 I understand a lot of this coming from very young people, but this is coming from middle aged adults. ALL of this abuse stops when you walk away. There are lots of publishers out there. Find another. If you're not going to get paid anyway, publish your own work on the web. You'll save yourself a lot of heartache. I understand a lot of this coming from very young people, but this is coming from middle aged adults.

ALL of this abuse stops when you walk away.

There are lots of publishers out there. Find another.

If you’re not going to get paid anyway, publish your own work on the web. You’ll save yourself a lot of heartache.

]]> By: VT http://adistantsoil.com/2009/09/01/your-lives-will-be-a-lot-simpler-if-some-of-you-would-just-listen-to-me-right-now/#comment-1995 VT Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:21:54 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=3903#comment-1995 "If you do not have enough confidence in your work to walk away from a client which is treating you like dirt, lying to you, and stealing from you, then you do not have enough confidence to be in this business." It makes me wonder how these folks act in their private lives. At some point, you have to stop playing the Victim Card, you know? “If you do not have enough confidence in your work to walk away from a client which is treating you like dirt, lying to you, and stealing from you, then you do not have enough confidence to be in this business.”

It makes me wonder how these folks act in their private lives. At some point, you have to stop playing the Victim Card, you know?

]]> By: PJ "comixnut" Magalhaes http://adistantsoil.com/2009/09/01/your-lives-will-be-a-lot-simpler-if-some-of-you-would-just-listen-to-me-right-now/#comment-1994 PJ "comixnut" Magalhaes Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:19:00 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=3903#comment-1994 Cheers, passing it on! Cheers, passing it on!

]]> By: Allan http://adistantsoil.com/2009/09/01/your-lives-will-be-a-lot-simpler-if-some-of-you-would-just-listen-to-me-right-now/#comment-1993 Allan Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:59:46 +0000 http://adistantsoil.com/?p=3903#comment-1993 Al says, RIGHT ON! Al says, RIGHT ON!

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