Collection Info


Time to make a 6th collection. 
 
CONCEPT
 
We have agreed to create a collection of short stories that members of our group will write and edit for the purpose of publication. 

All group members are invited and encouraged to contribute.

All fiction genres, non-fiction, and poetry are acceptable.

Authors are encouraged to keep their submissions to a maximum of 7,500 words, although that can be broken down into multiple pieces, and you can also write fewer words if you wish. .

Remember, that though we are not putting strict limits on anything except total words, we would like like to be able to refer readers of all ages to this collection.  
 
DEADLINES
  • First draft to writers@crazybuffet.com by June 1. Two other members will read each story and provide comments and edits. If you contribute a story, plan to also read others'. Jim will make sure two people get the First draft to concentrate on developmental and overview edits.
  • Ready-to-polish stories to writers@crazybuffet.com by July 1. Two other members will read each story and provide comments and edits, concentrating on Copy editing like typos, grammar, spelling, etc
  • Edits of Ready-to-polish story are due to the Authors by Aug 1.
  • Final versions due to Jim by Sep 1.
Feel free to work faster than this. You don't have to wait until the deadline; should everyone have theirs in earlier, the whole flow can go faster.
 
If there are no whooshing noises as those deadlines pass, Jim will have it on Amazon by Oct 31. 
 
Anyone can read and edit each story. If you are not getting edits, let Jim know, and we will make sure a couple of people do that.

Editing should consist of standard copy editing and reader responses. We're not looking for anything that would change the writer's voice.

OBJECTIVES:
  • To have something that even the otherwise unpublished members of our group can show to potential readers.
  • To have something even published writers can use to promote their brand.
  • To contribute the royalties to a group that encourages and/or teaches writers.
  • To practice our craft
  • To have a good time as a group.

I am not a lawyer, but ... you are agreeing to create a one-time work that will be published by our critique group. We have agreed that the group as a collective retains no rights to these pieces beyond the initial publication. Individual authors own their stories and can use them without restriction in all forms. Copyrights in the book will indicate that the stories were pronted or reprinted by permission of the author.


Contributors should submit a short author bio with their work (or use the current one), that will be posted here on the CrazyBuffet.club web site and in the book. along with a link to your web site, or other places to find and/or purchase your works, if available.

Information about he final product will be hosted here on CrazyBuffet.club, and will be published under a mutually agreed title by a group.

We have left pricing flexible, but the publishing app will give a minimum price and we will go with something close to that.

Proceeds will go to a school or arts-group based writing program that we can determine before this release.

Copyright Info

Based on the copyright info below info and several other references that basically say the same, I am including a collection copyright and one for each story. Since the collection needs an author for the collection copyright, i am looking to see if i can use the name of our group even though there is no legally acknowledged entity, or if i should use mine. your knowledge and comments welcomed on that.

If you publish the story online or in print, you would include the copyright info for your story there also. You can also submit it to the copyright office with the official paperwork if you want that additional copyright protection.

Also, before i click the final publish button, I will send out an email that says stuff about everyone giving me permission to publish the collection for the group, and that profits go to the charity, etc.

The copyright page will contain stuff like the following:

Copyright 2021 by JimmyLee Smith (or Crazy Buffet Club?)
Introduction copyright 2021 by Calvin Beam
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
No part of this work ... blah blah blah legalize stuff goes here ...
"Story One" by Author One. Copyright 2017 by Author One. First printed in Another Place, Month Day, 2017. Reprinted by permission of Author One.
"Story Two" by Author One. Copyright 2021 by Author One. Printed by permission of Author One.
Cover Art by Meredith Hodges-Boos

The statutory language makes clear that there are distinctions between the compilation "author" and "authors" of works collected in the compilation. Section 103 tells us that a compilation can be copyrighted, but it "does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material." In fact, "[t]he copyright in such work is independent of" the copyrights in the included works. The provision continues:

The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.

What rights a compiler may have depends on the nature of the relationship with the author and of the material collected in the compilation. The copyright in the compilation or collection is one form of protection; a separate copyright in the component works is another. Depending upon whether the grant of rights to poetry or short story is exclusive or nonexclusive to the compiler ...

...The published compiled volume should include two different notices to effectively comply with the Copyright Act. There should be a compilation notice (which protects the author/compiler) and separate authorial notices for the included works (which protect the contributors) ...

...Therefore, the prudent course is for the compiler to include copyright notices for all contributions including the compiler's and an author to separately register her own copyright.

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