Hi everyone. Well, this is a most interesting development. IngramSpark or Ingram Content Group, I should say, has created or is creating a database of authors and works. They’re obtaining the right to list these authors and their work as part of a database for film and TV adaptation. Did I say that right? Lemme just read this to you.
Ingram Content Group launches MediaScout, IP database for film and TV adaptations; tool connects industry professionals to book rights information.
What that’s doing basically is taking information that is really publicly available if you have registered your copyright, which I hope you have done on all your books, and puts it there for the industry, the motion picture industry to see, here’s where you can contact this person if you want to get the rights to this book and turn it into a movie or a TV show. Personally, I think that’s a great innovation and I think that we should all think as indie authors about doing that. Joining up with this. I am looking into it right now.
So having said that, I just want to say that’s one of the best pieces of news I’ve gotten today. The other best piece of news I got today was that taking a break from physical and occupational therapy has been extremely difficult, but I have managed to maintain a certain amount of capability despite that. So both of these things are great news. And then finally, the other thing I would say is that I have often made light of the fact that I made the New York Times bestseller list based on algorithms, but I recently had somebody tell me that a review of a book I did helped this person get noticed because I had given a blurb, well, I’d done a review and a blurb was taken out of it, and of course it was from Debbi Mack, New York Times bestselling author.
So this person, whoever it was, the book ended up getting picked up, noticed by the NAACP and is being considered for an award. And just knowing that just made my day. It was like, okay, okay, it is meaningful. This is still meaningful, and I should really not underplay that. I shouldn’t roll my eyes at that. Somebody asked me once, “What’s with the eye roll?” When I mentioned the New York Times bestselling author thing, or somebody mentioned it, and I sort of went …
Well, it’s just that for a while there it didn’t feel like anything. It felt like almost meaningless. But I think doing these reviews and helping other people has really just changed my whole view on that. I mean, it’s a thingr, however I got it, it’s a thing that I can use to help people, and I did. So for that, I feel really, really happy, and that’s all. So I think these are all good news and I’m looking forward to getting better as I return to physical and occupational therapy. That’s it. Then take care and I’ll be seeing you.
Oh, I just want to emphasize that the MediaScout thing, it’s basically, it’s just a database. It’s just basically putting a lot of information together to make it easier for people to find. So go into it with the appropriate expectations in terms of overnight success or expect people to say, “Oh, hey, look at this brilliant person! We got to make a movie out of that book.” Yeah.
You realize, of course, that this is, there are going to be hundreds, if not thousands of people on this particular listing. I would think. So just manage your expectations always about these things. But it is a good thing.
I think it’s a good thing having that information just available in one place. I mean, it’s kind of like the reverse of the Hollywood Directory or whatever, where you could find all the producers listed or all the studio heads or whatever. It’s a listing of all of us who have content out there, content that can be turned into something else. So anyway, that’s all I’ll say about it. Manage your expectations and hope for the best. Take care. Be seeing you.
