I’m more interested in splitting royalties with someone who cares a lot about the singularity than in hiring a professional so if you do think you have the time please contact me. This wouldn’t be a rush job.
Unfortunately for the near future, I can’t take the time necessary to do this right without switching to a part-time job, which isn’t workable until student loans are paid off and nest -egg established, which is at least a year from now.
Your ideal will be to find an existing passionate person with exactly the skillset you’re looking for, who has enough free time to do the job justice. (Donating time in a piecemeal, random hour every few weeks between jobs is not likely to produce good results). Splitting royalties with such a person is the ideal everyone hopes for, and your ideal person probably exists, but finding them in the haystack will be hard (as well as competing against similar passionate projects they may be interested in). My sense from previous similar Less Wrong posts is that the hypothetical ideal person doesn’t frequent our discussion board. (I hope to be proven wrong)
If you have a track record of publishing books, is getting your publisher to pay for an artist out the question?
My hope is to put together a proposal with my agent and have him shop it to publishers. For this I would need an artist before I got a committed publisher.
Not sure if I have a motive for this question yet, but curious:
Is the existing book you’re working on currently your primary “job”? Would the comic book project begin in earnest before or after Singularity Rising is complete?
I’m a college professor and writing is considered to be between 40% to 60% of my job. I’ve already finished 90% of the work for my Singularity book and the rest of it will consist of responding to my editor’s suggestions. I always work on multiple writing projects at once and I expect this will be the same with the comic book.
After putting together a proposal (which I would love to finish by three months from now) the comic book couldn’t start in earnest until after I have a contract with a publisher and this could take anywhere from a month to over a year to (alas) never. I would be willing to come to an agreement with the artist that he would only stick with the project if we get a contract within some time period.
I’m more interested in splitting royalties with someone who cares a lot about the singularity than in hiring a professional so if you do think you have the time please contact me. This wouldn’t be a rush job.
Unfortunately for the near future, I can’t take the time necessary to do this right without switching to a part-time job, which isn’t workable until student loans are paid off and nest -egg established, which is at least a year from now.
Your ideal will be to find an existing passionate person with exactly the skillset you’re looking for, who has enough free time to do the job justice. (Donating time in a piecemeal, random hour every few weeks between jobs is not likely to produce good results). Splitting royalties with such a person is the ideal everyone hopes for, and your ideal person probably exists, but finding them in the haystack will be hard (as well as competing against similar passionate projects they may be interested in). My sense from previous similar Less Wrong posts is that the hypothetical ideal person doesn’t frequent our discussion board. (I hope to be proven wrong)
If you have a track record of publishing books, is getting your publisher to pay for an artist out the question?
My hope is to put together a proposal with my agent and have him shop it to publishers. For this I would need an artist before I got a committed publisher.
Not sure if I have a motive for this question yet, but curious:
Is the existing book you’re working on currently your primary “job”? Would the comic book project begin in earnest before or after Singularity Rising is complete?
I’m a college professor and writing is considered to be between 40% to 60% of my job. I’ve already finished 90% of the work for my Singularity book and the rest of it will consist of responding to my editor’s suggestions. I always work on multiple writing projects at once and I expect this will be the same with the comic book.
After putting together a proposal (which I would love to finish by three months from now) the comic book couldn’t start in earnest until after I have a contract with a publisher and this could take anywhere from a month to over a year to (alas) never. I would be willing to come to an agreement with the artist that he would only stick with the project if we get a contract within some time period.