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Huh. Interesting. This showed up in my inbox:
TO: Glenn Arnold
FROM: Permissions Editor
SUBJECT: Request for Permission
I am writing on behalf of Guideposts Books to request
permission to reprint the following material:
"Skip the Stomach, Go Straight for the Heart" found on the Humor is
Relative website.
This material will be for the following work that Guideposts is now
preparing for publication:
Author: Guideposts
Title: FunnyBone Fitness (Let There Be Laughter Series)
Proposed date of publication: October 2006
Other factors: 208 pages, $11.95; print run 25,000
We request nonexclusive world rights, as part
of our volume only, in all languages and for all editions.
Will you grant Guideposts permission to reprint the above material? If
you are not the copyright holder, or if additional permission is needed
for world rights from another source, please so advise. With regard to
source credits, if you do not indicate otherwise, we will include the
usual scholarly form of acknowledgment, including publisher, author,
title, etc.
Our
publishing deadline is imminent, so your earliest attention would be
most helpful and appreciated. Please sign one copy of this letter and
return it to us. In signing, you grant the permission requested above
and warrant that you are the sole owner (or his/her representative) of
the rights granted herein, and that the material indicated does not
infringe upon the copyright or other rights of any third party.
Sincerely,
Permissions
Editor
Guideposts Books
Apparently, they want to use my piece in some
sort of anthology they're putting together. I'm not sure if this a
hardcover or what, but it will be the first time I've been published in
book format (I've been published in a magazine before, though it was
just a local D.C. magazine). And look at that print run:
25,000 copies. Think that'll be enough? Heh.
Guideposts Books is a fairly large publishing company that
publishes inspirational and faith-based material (yeah, right up my
alley) and was founded by Norman Vincent Peale, who is the guy
who wrote The Power Of Positive Thinking.
No, this isn't a huge thing, but it is kinda cool.
(And to answer your question: Yes, they're paying me.) |
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