Authors Auction Character Names
Sixteen big-name authors, including Stephen King, John Grisham and Neil Gaiman, will be using eBay to auction off the rights to name characters, settings or other miscellany in their upcoming novels.
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Strangely enough, this isn't the first time this has happened. I wish for the life of me I could remember the name of a writer, but I remember about a year ago hearing of a science-fiction author who was with an ebook/POD (non-subsidy) publisher and made about three hundred bucks.
So, if someone of that stature can make a few dollars, I'm frightened of what the bids are going to be on guys like King and Grisham (not to mention all those rabid Gaiman fanboys out there).
Want to know what I'm most frightened of, though? The absolute certainty that a ton of POD writers (savvy marketers that we are) are going to jump on the bandwagon and auction off their own character names, making these auctions a dime a dozen.
Read the full article.
Strangely enough, this isn't the first time this has happened. I wish for the life of me I could remember the name of a writer, but I remember about a year ago hearing of a science-fiction author who was with an ebook/POD (non-subsidy) publisher and made about three hundred bucks.
So, if someone of that stature can make a few dollars, I'm frightened of what the bids are going to be on guys like King and Grisham (not to mention all those rabid Gaiman fanboys out there).
Want to know what I'm most frightened of, though? The absolute certainty that a ton of POD writers (savvy marketers that we are) are going to jump on the bandwagon and auction off their own character names, making these auctions a dime a dozen.
3 Comments:
Hi Cavan
Neil Gaiman did something similar a little while ago full article here.
Wow...$3500...I'm impressed.
About a year ago (I think) I did this, but I gave the character name away for free from a drawing. It was my most entered contest. I'm doing it again LOL
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