Topic: My Essay Immortalized on... a Soup Jar?

[nickypicky]

Anne - LOL It has been a pretty darn good year! So glad I got to share a debut year with you...

LTMAadison Hmm. Well, LT, they paid me for the essay a while back, both with money and a bunch of contributor's copies. I also signed a contract giving them rights to re-use the essay in other anthologies and on "future merchandise" without further compensation. So, are you saying I shouldn't have signed that? That's entirely possible - but you should know the original anthology wasn't the first appearance of this essay in the world! It came out in a magazine prior to the Chicken Soup. So the "first rights" were long gone...

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool, and I have an agent who vets all my contracts now. Still - I'd do it again, no question.  Sorry about your experience. Of course, if they tried to offer you NO money for your work, the answer is no.
Also, I would be extremely curious to know if other soup lines are printing essays on the labels? I would think Chicken Soup would be one of the very few players in that game!

[LTMadison]

Seems like you've got your ducks in order -- didn't mean to rain on your parade. It's just that does get my dander up when i see these books on the best seller lists and know they're nickel and diming the writers.

[EmeraldGown]

Get as much publicity (write press releases, etc.) as you can for it and maybe you can get more work for actualy $$.

In the meantime, I think it's pretty cool that your story is on the "flagship can" as you husband says.  I think it says a lot about the quality of your story.  It will definitely get read and your name will get known.  It'll make you stand out as a writer.  I think it's a great situation to be in.   Congratulations!     I can't wait to find the soup!

[tammi]

Mmmm!