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Invoicing and getting paid for productions of your self-published stage play

Invoicing and getting paid for productions of your self-published stage play

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 14, 2016 | Evergreen, Playwriting and Theatre

Back in this mailbag post, we talked about how you figure out what to charge for licensing a production and how I like to offer a bulk discount on printed scripts for schools and groups doing a show. But what we didn’t address in that post was how you actually...
Licensing productions, performance agreements & contracts for a self-published stage play

Licensing productions, performance agreements & contracts for a self-published stage play

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 12, 2016 | Evergreen, Playwriting and Theatre

Someone wants to perform your self-published play, woohoo! But, uh, how do you know what to charge? How do you go about licensing productions? How do you craft a good performance agreement? That’s what we’re covering in today’s question from the...
Trailer from RPI Players production of The Love of Three Oranges (+ TLOTO reaction GIFs!)

Trailer from RPI Players production of The Love of Three Oranges (+ TLOTO reaction GIFs!)

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 7, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized

A friend called my attention to this great trailer from RPI Players production of The Love of Three Oranges that I totally missed back when the production happened back in November of 2015. I enjoyed it so much I just had to make myself an animated GIF of...
Getting The Drama Book Store or any brick and mortar bookstore to stock your self-published play or book

Getting The Drama Book Store or any brick and mortar bookstore to stock your self-published play or book

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 5, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre

I mentioned back in this post that I was a vendor with the Drama Book Shop which is one of the largest and most influential theatre bookstores in the world. That means they physically stock some of my plays in their awesome store. This questions asks for some...
March 2016: my wordiest month of the year so far

March 2016: my wordiest month of the year so far

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 1, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing

If you ask my three-year old what comes after March, she’ll tell you it’s “the Daisy niece months” because Daisy Duck has three nieces named April, May and June. Anyway, it’s that time again… Here’s what March 2016 looked like in...
Win a free paperback copy of NaNo What Now? in this Goodreads giveaway

Win a free paperback copy of NaNo What Now? in this Goodreads giveaway

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 31, 2016 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

While Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited members can already start reading my guide to what happens after you finish a novel in a month, NaNo What Now?, for free right now here, paperback fans can get into the action now too with this Goodreads giveaway. It runs...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.

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