I'm Just Sayin'

Today something amazing happened in this country----yup you know it. Finally equal rights for everyone on marriage . This is a huge and I'm so happy to call myself an American-FINALLY, I can stand up tall and be thrilled with news. I was so excited in fact, that I posted three articles about it on Facebook. Little did I know.  Three words often used in literature to lead into something bad... little did I know that.. I was about to be sent a friggen' ISIS video to "teach me a lesson" from a fellow (aspiring) teen author. This person actually deleted me from FB, because I posted the news, but before she did that, she sent me this HORRIFIC video, that I can't ever get out of my mind now to show me what non Christians ( her words not mine ) do to Christians, and the world needs to be rid of people like me. (again her words.... who does that sound like? WOW--rid of people like me... the words are raw, stale and full of hate.)  Now, I'm not sure how me...

RIGHT TO WORK Contracts & Copyright, What it Means for Artists (mostly in this blog I'm talking about children's books)  Earlier this week on Facebook,  there was a discussion from an artist about taking work for hire work as an illustrator and whether or not she could ask for royalties, it was/is a great discussion, but it did get side tracked and turned into a conversation on copyright. I am just sharing information.  One of the persons in the conversation said that artists automatically keep the copyright and just look in any book on the shelves -those are NOT "work for hire" books, they are from big publishers and yes that is the case, artists do retain the copyright. It is standard for artists to retain copyrights, but if an artist is signing a "work for hire" contract they do need to add in a "right of use" clause or just have a right of use contract instead of the work for hire. I am talking specifically about WORK FOR HIRE h...