25 How Sean Platt Revolutionized Fan Fiction and Book Copyrights

Sean did something amazing with his recent book. He open sourced it and is allowing people to write inside the book's world. But that's not the best part. Sean is giving away the copyright and allowing people to own the copyright and royalties to anything they create within his world. It pretty amazing! Hear Sean explain everything in today's episode below.

In this Episode We Discuss:

Why you need to author a book series to be successful

Why Sean decided to open source his “Dream Engine” book world and allow anyone to write books in the world and own both the copyright and royalties

What is serialized fiction, how does it work, and is it still popular like it was in 2012

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Fiction Unboxed Project

The Dream Engine - the Steampunk novel that was written during the Fiction Unboxed Project

Sean's two published Amazon Serials, Monstrous & Z 2134

Write, Publish Repeat - a how-to book on writing

SterlingandStone website

Joanna Penn's website, the Creative Penn

About Sean

Sean has written more than a dozen books with the help of David Wright and Johnny B. Truant. Some of these books include his most popular series: Yesterdays Gone, The Beam, and Unicorn Western. Recently Sean wrote, The Dream Engine, with the help of Johnny B. Truant during a project they called Fiction Unboxed. Besides writing, Sean enjoys spending time with Sean his wife, daughter, and son.

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