So this is what my lawyer and I came up with re: an agreement between me and any potential collaborator. For those hearing this for the first time, I have allowed anyone to utilize the universe I have created (my characters, settings, plot lines, and ideas) and write within it and then split the profits with me. Details here.
This is the outline for the eventual contract that any collaborator and I will sign. I'd like to hear any concerns in the comments.
Collaboration Agreement
1) Parties
a) Joe Konrath (Joe)
b) Author
2) Work
a) Preliminary title and brief description of the planned book or books
3) Collaboration
a) Joe and the Author will collaborate to create the Work as described herein.
b) Author has created a manuscript utilizing the characters and settings of Joe’s novels
i) List of novels in Exhibit A
c) Joe grants Author a terminable license to utilize Joe’s characters and settings to create new works under the terms of this Agreement.
d) The Work must be approved by Joe prior to publication.
e) Joe will have final editorial control over the Work, including control over how his characters and settings are depicted and continuity control for story and character arcs.
4) Author Credit
a) Joe and Author will each be named as an author of the Work wherever the authors are identified in the Work and in publicity and promotion materials created to promote the Work.
i) Author’s name will be depicted in the same manner as Joe’s, alphabetically.
5) Copyright
a) The copyright for the Work will be registered in the name of Joe and Author.
6) Publication
a) Joe will pay all costs of publishing the Work.
i) Cover
(1) Joe will consult with Author concerning cover design but Joe will have final authority to determine and approve the cover design.
ii) Editing, Proofing, Formatting
b) Author will consult Joe concerning marketing, advertising and promotion of the Work, but will have final authority to determine all marketing, advertising and promotion. Joe and Author will split all costs of marketing, advertising and promotion if any costs are incurred.
i) Nothing in this paragraph will prevent Author from personally marketing the Work.
7) Royalties
a) Joe’s Manager
i) Joe and Author jointly appoint Jane Dystel (“Manager”) as the accounting manager of the proceeds received from the sale of the Work.
ii) Manager shall collect all proceeds received from the sale of the Work.
iii) Manager shall receive a commission of 10% of the proceeds received from the sale of the Work.
b) After deduction of the Manager’s fee, the balance of the proceeds shall be divided equally between Joe and Author.
c) Royalties shall be paid by the Manager on a monthly basis within 30 days of receipt of sales proceeds.
d) Each royalty payment to Author shall be accompanied by a royalty statement prepared by Manager detailing all proceeds received.
e) Author may request additional details concerning the sales of the Work from Manager.
8) Subsidiary Rights
a) Author may attempt to license, sell or otherwise exploit subsidiary rights to the Work.
b) No subsidiary rights will be licensed, sold, or otherwise exploited without the written consent of both Joe and Author.
9) Termination
a) Either party may terminate this Agreement upon written notice to the other.
b) Consequences of Termination
i) The Work will be removed from publication as soon as practicable, subject to rights of electronic bookstores to retain copies to replace lost ebooks previously purchased by readers, and any outstanding subsidiary rights contracts.
ii) Author shall have no further rights to utilize Joe’s characters or settings in any book or story.
iii) Joe shall be the sole owner of any editorial changes or additions he made to the Work and Author shall not utilize any materials.
iv) Author shall be the sole owner of the material included in the Work in the form in which it was first submitted to Joe for review excluding the names of any of Joe’s characters.
10) Liability for Claims of Third Parties
a) Each party warrants:
i) That he/she is the sole author of his/her contribution to the Work;
ii) That his/her contribution is an original work of fiction;
iii) That his/her contribution does not violate a copyright or trademark of any person or entity;
iv) That nothing in his/her contribution depicts a real person, living or dead;
v) That nothing in his/her contribution constitutes defamation, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of identity, intrusion into privacy or publication of private facts or depicts any person, living or dead, in a false light or otherwise provides a basis for a claim that publication of the Work has caused damage to any person or entity.
b) In the event of a claim of any person or entity arising from either party’s contribution to the Work occurs, the party creating the contribution shall pay all costs and damages arising from such claim, including, without limitation, the other party’s reasonable attorneys’ fees.
c) The warranties and obligations to pay costs arising from claims of third parties shall survive the termination of this Agreement.
11) Arbitration
a) In the event of any disagreement or dispute between the parties arising from this Agreement or the activities contemplated thereby, the parties agree that such disagreement or dispute shall be subject to binding arbitration.
Joe sez: I think my lawyer hit all the main points. I'd add 6) c) Author has full say in how/where the Work is released, including price, platforms, and sale price.
I want the co-writer to not only have the ability to leave whenever they'd like, but also the power to decide how much to sell the work for, where to sell the work online, and when to discount the work (if ever).
So what about this agreement outline doesn't work? I want to hear from people about things I may have missed.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Metabolic Damage- Know it, fix it & use it to get shredded.
If you’ve jumped on the MelVFitness bandwagon with all the other legends you’ll be aware of my fitness journey. In short, I spent about 6 months of my life choking down chicken and chugging egg whites in order to get a six pack, I tainted friendships, socially isolated myself and morphed into a food snob. A month after I finished my 6 pack quest I had put on 6kg- BOOM right back to where I started. The interesting thing about that is that I never once binged on chocolate or went to town on a bread stick, I was secretly still eating chicken and broccoli & exercising more than ever… so why was I doing more, eating less and still gaining the kgs?
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After crying a small river one night I decided to turn to my Dr, Councilor, Psychologist, Entertainer and Mentor- A guy called Google. Through the haze of fat loss supplements, weight loss shakes and diet pills a person emerged… LayneNorton, like a body saving jesus he glided from his YouTube videos onto my computer screen ..full of knowledge, hope and glorious food choices.
Through his videos and reading blogs from people who have experienced the same thing I had ah ah, huh moment. “Holy fat cells Batman” Mel cried. ‘Ive royally damaged my metabolism!!’
The idea behind a reverse diet is to slowly increase your calorie intake over a number of weeks. This is done by increasing carb and fat intake by approximately 10g per week, by slowly adding in more calories you will be able to increase your metabolic capacity and be able to eat more food whilst maintaining your current weight. My long term plan is to now restore my metabolism, currently I am eating around 1300 calories per day and at the end of my 20 week reverse diet I hope to be eating around 2000 calories (Hells yeah, I cant wait for this! Ill be an eating machine!) Whist working to restore my metabolism, Ill be visiting my old mate Jim to grow some much needed muscle. Once I’m slamming 2000 cals a day, I will only need to slightly reduce my calorie intake in order to facilitate fat loss. And if my plan works, I may just conceder smothering myself in fake tan & entering a fitness modeling comp.. maybe ;)
UPDATE** I did do the reverse diet, & have written a blog post about my experience! Follow this link to view my Reverse Diet Diary.
Don’t think my plan will work? Well I have been lucky enough to receive a sponsorship with Natural Physique Sciences with the awesome trainer Joey who has worked with broken individuals like me before, I thought I would let him shine some light onto the topic & give you some advice/tips on how to make it work for you
Joey: Mel, firstly thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my perspective on this topic.
My thoughts will tie in with a lot of the current info out there which I have learned from other great coaches, such as Layne Norton who I have also worked with. There is so much to discuss on the whole; diet, restriction, binging (what I call rewards syndrome), guilt, train harder and longer, repeat cycle, but I will stick to the reverse dieting, or more so the importance of it.
Reverse dieting is no newbie term, yet we all still see people sway away from such a beneficial concept. It requires patience, perseverance and persistence, along with some good understanding of the process.
Restoring metabolism, following a deliberate restriction or low calorie diet can serve several benefits for THE LONG TERM. I say this in scream font, as LONG TERMshould be the main focus here.
The objective is to increase your metabolic capacity over time therefore making it A LOT healthier, easier, and more efficient to begin a deliberate "shred". By this I mean increasing calories over time, whilst minimizing excess fat and weight gain. You want to add in food (calories) at the rate that suits your metabolism based on various data points such as weekly weight, previous weight, girth measurements, activity levels, visual monitoring etc. Everyone is going to need individual bumps for their progress depending on these variables.
It is important to keep the pendulum of the recent extreme dieting from swinging back just as hard. I have personally had this happen to my self after my first time competing, where I ate myself into a food coma and put on 10kgs in 3 days. I was so depressed that it took several weeks to bounce back emotionally, not to mention all the fat I had just dumped onto my body. I had learned my lesson! Come post second comp and after working with Layne, my mindset was so much better. I did want to binge however I remembered how I looked and felt last time this happened, and my metabolism loved me for it. Currently I can maintain at 450g carbs, 200g protein and 85g fat at 75-77kgs,something I would not have been able to do if I jumped straight from restriction to these calories. I would have ended up in a worse position than when I started my ‘shred”. I must say that reverse dieting is in my opinion so much more difficult than dieting down. The mental toughness required significantly outweighs the opposite, as it screams discipline! There are ways to get through this tough time a little easier, and a good coach can instruct how. Eventually calories will increase, and things become even easier. Again as I say, “The 4 P’s.. Patience + perseverance + persistence = progress”
“Metabolic rebuilding” as it’s also called is so beneficial in the recreational gym goer. I have found some of the clients I work with, did not follow low calorie diets deliberately; it had just become their lifestyle. Once they begin training in conjunction with a specific macro nutrient plan (and to their initial confusing reaction), calories are on the increase, and BOOM, we hit another metabolic gear. In beginners such as these clients, I tend to see body recomposition ie losing bodyfat, gaining muscle for a few months, while continuing to increase calories respectively. This needs to be seen as a bonus. There will come a point where we hit a plateau, a few to be accurate, where weight loss may stall, or even slightly gain. Again, data points and variables are referred to, and if all is on track, we continue to shift through the metabolic gears by slowly increasing calories. Until we hit a point where we see a progressive weight/bodyfat gain, or weight and metabolism has reached a limit that I feel is adequate, client x is entitled to start a “cut”. Here, their calories would be much higher, their metabolic cushioning to use will be greater, and their overall mental and emotional state will be enlightened, as they will realize dieting down to their goal physique is going to be much easier on 2500kcals, than would be on 1000 kcals.
A matter I tend to see is the difficulty addressing the concept of reverse dieting to people (mainly women), who have been pounded by mainstream media and their blasé messages of success. I have yet to see one commercial or add on TV promote metabolic rebuilding in correlation to success. So when I, the great coaches I work with at Natural Physique Science, or frankly anyone, can alter the current mindset of an individual looking to achieve a goal (again pushing long term success), I can’t help but feel I have just hit a personal record in a Squat!
A matter I tend to see is the difficulty addressing the concept of reverse dieting to people (mainly women), who have been pounded by mainstream media and their blasé messages of success. I have yet to see one commercial or add on TV promote metabolic rebuilding in correlation to success. So when I, the great coaches I work with at Natural Physique Science, or frankly anyone, can alter the current mindset of an individual looking to achieve a goal (again pushing long term success), I can’t help but feel I have just hit a personal record in a Squat!
A few examples:
I have is one client (steve olsen seen here) of mine recently competed at 64.5kgs (around 1550kcals pre peak week), and a waist of 72cm. His reverse diet plan and consistency has been so good that 4 months later he is just 900 grams heavier, a 1cm waist gain at 73cm waist, and eating 2700kcals! Eventually he will put on weight more rapidly once he hits a certain threshold of calorie surplus, however when he is ready to “shred” back up for his next comp, it is going to be much easier.
Another case of a recreational gym goer, who I am extremely proud of (Raylene Sargent), average hard working mum of 2 teenagers who did not intentionally diet, came to me on 900kcal weighing 118.9kgs (135kg at her heaviest). 5 months later, she is 106.1kgs, and consuming 1950kcals! This is just freaking awesome!!
Here are a couple other client who are currently working with me in the reverse diet stage.
In short, work on building up your metabolism with a well-planned training protocol and macronutrient protocol to set yourself up for success in the LONG TERM.
#Sciencebitch
I have now written an Ebook (Have your cake & get lean too: A guide to counting macros) which explains EXACTLY how to use IIFYM and more specifically, how to do a reverse diet- It can be purchased from the following website: http://payhip.com/b/2Afm
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