Residencies, Book💰Transparency, etc
+March Meeting Invite
March Meeting Invite
Authors' Meeting
Tuesday, March 25 · 5:00PM PST - 6:00PM MST - 7:00PM CST - 8:00PM EST
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/vbr-yexz-qsa
Resources
📖Want to do a writing residency?
Good news: I got an artist residency! I'll get to spend 23 days on a ranch writing, photographing, etc, for free! (And I get a $300 stipend.) Thank you, Jentel!
So, to give back to fellow writers, I just updated my list of nature/park residencies for writers. My residency collection is biased towards naturey places and those that accept writers/journalists/nonfiction authors, but it’s mostly just “artists.” (This started as a list of the National Park Artist In Residence programs, particularly the nature parks, so it’s mostly that, but I know there is some strife with funding the US National Parks, so I expanded to other types as well. Don’t forget, state parks and BLM has these as well!)
If you know of any you'd like me to add, here is the form.
Also, if you would like to visit rural Wyoming while I'm gone (and basically do your own free residency, if it works out for both of us), you can add your email to my list of cat-sitters to contact when I’m going out of town. Hope you can handle skulls.
📖Have a published (or almost published) science book?
Get featured on this podcast.
Member
has started a podcast called Book Science. He’s looking for published, or about-tp-be-published, science book authors to feature on the podcast. Email is on the website!💰Pay Transparency & Money Stuff💰
writes that she will be at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in LA on March 29……moderating a panel where writers will be transparent about their earnings—specifically how their book earnings measure up to their overall income. Hard numbers. You'll hear from Allison K Williams, Russell Nohelty, and Laura Portwood-Stacer.
When writers open up about the financial realities of publishing, it empowers everyone to make the best decisions for their careers.
Mark your calendars for 10:35 a.m. on Saturday, March 29. We'll be on the Bookfair stage.
You know I’m very pro pay-transparency! Feel free to pull up my post on How Much Money I Got to Fund My Book and Where I Got It and How I spent $24,000 on my (Trad) Book So Far—BUT!. Print them out and bring them, put them in your own presentations, post them wherever. Would be cool for you to let me know if you do so I can enjoy that knowledge too!
If you don’t already agree that you should tell people your wages, this skit from Adam Ruins Everything explains. (Fun fact: Once, I posted that video in a newsroom chat and got a lot of people to share their wages on a document. Turns out a white man was making $68k for the same job a black woman was making $32k. He did have a little more experience so deserved a little more, but $32k for a degree-requiring job in Manhattan???)
Friedman also has a big collection of writing about earning a living as a writer, which I believe is only free to read temporarily. (I’m often skeptical of these types of roundups and articles, as they’re often sponsored by SEO experts who want to sell vanity press packages or discourage analyzing actual ROI, but Friedman is a real, sensible, honest professional.)
Further Reading/Watching:
Author
has a succinct video explaining why there is basically no amount of money you can have where you feel safe, secure, and that it is enough. To the point above: Yeah, a $100k book advance isn’t “enough,” but nothing is. $100k is great.
See you on the 25th!