{"id":115416,"date":"2007-05-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/author-finds-unique-way-to-market-childrens-story-ebay-auction-includes-manuscript-and-all-media-rights\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T19:00:00","slug":"author-finds-unique-way-to-market-childrens-story-ebay-auction-includes-manuscript-and-all-media-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/author-finds-unique-way-to-market-childrens-story-ebay-auction-includes-manuscript-and-all-media-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Finds Unique Way to Market Children&#8217;s Story &#8211; eBay Auction Includes Manuscript and All Media Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: Steven T. Blood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ROCKINGHAM, N.C. &#8211; May 4 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; A North Carolina author has found a unique way to market his writings to potential publishers. Steven Blood has put the manuscript for his children&#8217;s book &#8220;The City of Lost Socks&#8221; on the online auction website eBay in what seems to be the only auction of its kind.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/Send2Press.com\/wire\/images\/07-0504-LostSocks_72dpi.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\" id=\"2007-05-0504-001\" alt=\"(c) Send2Press\" \/>eBay auction #190102443444 includes the manuscript and all media rights for it. This includes the rights to the book, movie, television and any other forms of communication. <\/p>\n<p> The new and proud owner of these rights will not owe Mr. Blood any future compensation in the form of royalties or any other payments beyond the winning bid.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I see it as a win-win situation,&#8221; explains Steven Blood, &#8220;The publisher doesn&#8217;t have to wonder how much the book will cost him in the end, it&#8217;s all up front. And I don&#8217;t have to bicker over royalties and whatnot. I can just go back to writing and be done with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The City of Lost Socks&#8221; is a &#8220;Seussian&#8221; story written in rhyme. The story centers around the adventures of a young boy named Thomas who goes on a fantastic journey to discover the true reason his socks won&#8217;t match. Along the way he learns a life lesson about the dangers of labeling.<\/p>\n<p> Also included are two drawings for the story also by the author. <\/p>\n<p> Contact: \t<br \/>  Steven T. Blood<br \/>  Phone: 910.817.6171<\/p>\n<p>News issued by: Steven T. Blood<\/p>\n<p> # # # <\/p>\n<p><small>Original Story ID:  (2813) :: 2007-05-0504-001<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Keywords: Steven T. Blood, The City of Lost Socks, book auction, manuscript for his children&#8217;s book, eBay, unpublished novel, illustrations, potential publishers, movie rights Steven T. Blood   <\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: Steven T. Blood<\/strong> | Published: 2007-05-04 15:00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKINGHAM, N.C. &#8211; May 4 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; A North Carolina author has found a unique way to market his writings to potential publishers. Steven Blood has put the manuscript for his children&#8217;s book &#8216;The City of Lost Socks&#8217; on the online auction website eBay in what seems to be the only auction of its kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"singles-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases-archive","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":442,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}