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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1649175" data-attributes="member: 5171">Good point -- and I can then compare this to a "first novel" contest instead of a standard submissions process.  That makes sense.Well, the one thing that still doesn't entirely fit is that a "first novel" contest is specifically for new people, and usually excludes people with more credits.  This contest doesn't -- although the general layout does.And of course, I'm probably being a bit snarky, like SK Reynolds was about Eberron -- since there's not exactly a dearth of good writers trying to make it in the business to begin with, using a layout that appeals to people who haven't written much previously gives me the impression that they're more interested in non-writers than in writers.It's probably not gonna be a huge deal either way.  And of course, I'm still entering.  I've been interested in breaking into the media tie-in market for awhile.Well, for starters, they're working it in a different way.  Tor and Baen don't have to specify that information, because it's public knowledge in most cases.  The average advance for a first novel is $6,000 or thereabouts, or was a couple years ago.  If they think you're the next Jordan or Goodkind, they give you more.  A few people get less, particularly for contests.  The rights purchased are pretty well-established.  You can download a copy of a standard novel contract from the SFWA website.Media tie-ins use a different system -- rather than paying royalties, most times, they give a flat-fee that's potentially larger than the author would get in a normal advance (barring Jordan-or-Goodkind-ness), and that buys ALL rights to the novel.  The author has just given it away in its entirety, and doesn't own any of the side characters he invented or anything.  (I'm not clear about the rare cases where someone might want to make your tie-in-novel into an episode of the show you're writing for, because it's so good -- you might retain rights for that.  But I'm not sure.)As far as writing count... dude, yeah, that's a fair amount of writing.  I'd have to quit a few of my other hobbies to crank out 500k words per year...</blockquote>

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