If you have any finalizing to do with your pages do not feel rushed or anything because it is going to take me several months of at home work to get everything in place before I can get back to traveling on the road. Although we will use the internet, and do extensive marketing on it (under careful regulations and good ethics). We all know that the Internet is not the best place to sell art because it's so clustered with art that the shops feel overwhelmed. Most shops I go to feel that a personal approach is the old school way to sell because they know I will be gone tomorrow. Here today, gone tomorrow is a far better way to sell. Not to mention that they like to meet someone in person and establish a personal relationship with the company. That has always been a factor in the sales of my art, and why I've done so well even though my art is not the greatest Celtic stuff around and I could have used the experience and advice I have gotten before I made my book.

You will have the option to sell at conventions and to people who buy from you in person, but will be required to obtain receipts as well as obtain the business information of shops that you have sold to so that we don't waste our time trying to track things down. The receipts will include a copy of our companies licensing agreement which gives them permissions to display, create unselable stencils, and tattoo your art. You'll have to contact me when you run out and pay for the receipts and shipping, or go make copies of them and buy transfer paper on your own. I will not sell to shops under false pretences in which I could pull their ability to use the art and sue them extensively for reproducing it and displaying it in their shops, if I chose to, simply because the other publishing companies failed to do their research and give them proper permissions... and nothing has happened in the past. If this issue comes down to the wire the shops that have purchased from our company will appreciate the up front honesty and research I have done... as well as make our company more reputable. I will not work with other companies who refuse to join me and follow suit on this issue. I sincerely care about my artists and the other tattoo artists as well.

My company may very well turn into a non profit organization. This will not affect what you are paid. I am here to change the face of publishing and force the publishers to respect the artists and their clients, and provide them with the protection, reasonable percentage, and professional publishing and advice they deserve.

 
Although under copyright law it is not necessary that you obtain copyrights officially, it is a requirement of our company because I will sue immediately, and for full damages, if someone pirates your art. If you are unable or unwilling to do this on your own, I will charge you for the copyright fee and postage involved. The money will come out of your initial sales

For registration under one title you will need to create a book name, or allow me to create one. If you do not it will cost you $45.00 per page of your art.

 

Copyright Info:
Your art must be owned by you and be free for you to allow us to redistribute. I have studied copyright law extensively. In 1998 a law came out that says that the moment you draw your art it is copyrighted immediately. I have the Copyright Law book here and ready if you need to know anything. You can also check on the Library of Congress website. It is best, however to copyright through the Library of Congress . Copyright Office at: 101 Independence Ave S.E. ; Washington, D.C. 20559-6000. (www.loc.gov/copyright) To respect the artist we will help you with submitting your art in your name to provide full safety.

I sincerely look forward to the full submission of your art. You are a great artists and you deserve the best possible percentage, protection, honesty, and loyalty that a publisher can give. I honestly feel I am that publisher.

I apologize that I was unable to establish and provide this service sooner due to financial reasons and that things will be a little slow in the beginning stages of the companies opening.

 

If you would like to be the cover artist for the first issues of our magazine, think up a design and submit it to me.

 

Sincerely,
Shane T. Clark