Guidelines for CDROM/Multimedia Authors
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Walnut Creek CDROM is looking for CDROM and Multimedia authors.  If you
have a really cool idea for a CDROM product then I want to hear from you.

What you need to be a CDROM author:
  1.  A lot of hard disk space.
  2.  Technical expertise in the subject matter.

What you will NOT need:
  1.  A lot of money.
  2.  Technical expertise about CDROMs or CDROM publishing.

I am willing to consider almost anything, but I am especially interested in
original ideas.  I already have some ideas for titles that I do not have
the expertise or time to do.  Other areas that are popular are educational
titles and discs of technical information.  Collections of images are also
very popular.

I am not interested in doing anything of an "adult" nature that I would
have to hide when my mom comes to visit.

Money: I will pay for the mastering and replication of the discs,
production of printed material, advertising, and promotion.  I will also do
the formating and one-off production.  You will receive a royalty based on
the gross revenue of the sales.  This is very similar to the finacial deal
for authoring a book.

Here is how the process works:

     1.  Send me your proposal.
     2.  If it looks like a good idea, we discuss it and negotiate a contract.
     3.  You collect the data, develop the applications, etc.
     4.  You write everything out to tape and send it to me.
     5.  I format the data, and make a one-off CDROM, which I mail back to you.
     6.  You test the disc, and make any changes necessary.
     7.  When everything is ready, I send the disc off for replication.
     8.  I place some ads, and do some press releases.
     9.  We kick back and watch the bucks roll in.

Please email your proposal to discdev@cdrom.com, or you can print it on
paper and mail it to

	Walnut Creek CDROM
	Attn: Disc Development
	1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
        Walnut Creek, CA  94596

All proposals will be considered confidential.