11.06.20
Money Matters 2020
Developing your creative ability is, of course, important, but it is only part of the picture. To have financial stability you need to equip yourself with the business skills to develop and grow your creative career. Understanding your rights, knowing how to negotiate a fair deal, establishing a good working relationship with your publisher and understanding your worth as a creator are essential aspects of your business.
Join us for Money Matters, an online series that will teach you how to take charge of your career and create a viable, and enjoyable, small business.
Please note: our flexible pricing options mean that each session can be booked individually, or, if you’d prefer, you can book the entire series and you’ll receive a $60 discount.
SESSION 1
Friday 24th July 2020, 12pm on Zoom
What’s Your Work Worth? (Jodie Spiteri-James / Olivia Lanchester)
When is an offer fair and when should you run for the hills?
SESSION 2
Friday 31st July 2020, 12pm on Zoom
To Agent or not to Agent? (Jodie Spiteri-James / Olivia Lanchester)
Mover, mouthpiece, manager... and money!
SESSION 3
Friday 7th August 2020, 12pm on Zoom
Don’t Get Pulped, Get Prepared (Ian McDonald, Simpsons Solicitors)
How to avoid being sued
SESSION 4
Friday 21st August 2020, 2pm on Zoom
Demystifying Your Royalty Statement (Juliet Rogers)
Participants are invited to send in their royalty statements for discussion (personal details and amounts will be redacted) to asa@asauthors.org with ‘Royalty Statements’ in the subject line.
SESSION 5
Friday 28th August 2020,12pm on Zoom
Where to Hoard Your Acorns (Matthew Tucker)
Matt will help guide members through the many issues they face when trying to run a creative business – what to claim, when to claim it, how to handle substantiation requirements, tips and traps, handling advances and royalties, GST, income averaging, non-commercial loss provisions and planning for tax payments.
SESSION 6
Friday 4th September 2020, 12pm on Zoom
Diversifying Your Talents to Make a Living (Sunil Badami)
Sunil is a writer, performer, broadcaster, academic, mentor and storyteller.
Jodie Spiteri-James is the Professional Development and Events Manager at the ASA. Jodie has over 20 years experience in the Publishing industry ranging from sales and marketing as Sales Director at Hachette to Managing Director of Thames & Hudson Australia. Most recently Jodie has been a speaker coach working with emerging speakers. Since joining the ASA Jodie has put together a professional development program to equip ASA members with the knowledge and information to successfully achieve their publishing goals.
Olivia Lanchester is the CEO of the ASA. She advises authors and illustrators onmany aspects of the publishing process. She has worked as a senior intellectualproperty lawyer in private practice and as a freelance editor. Prior to becoming CEO,she ran the ASA's Contract Assessment Service. Olivia coordinates the ASA'sadvocacy on copyright, unfair contracts and digital lending rights.
Ian McDonald (MA (HONS), LLB, Dip. Ed.) has been a Special Counsel with Simpsons Law Firm since April 2011. Prior to joining Simpsons, Ian was the principal of a boutique copyright law firm and before that worked for 17 years specialising in copyright at the Australian Copyright Council at which he became a Senior Lawyer. Ian is a well-known and popular speaker and writer on legal issues relevant to the arts and publishing, including defamation. Since the beginning of 2014, Ian has also lectured in “Cultural Property, Ethics and Law” in the Master of Art Administration at the University of New South Wales Art & Design (what was the College of Fine Arts), covering – among other things – topics as diverse as sedition, privacy, defamation, obscenity, censorship and governance issues relating to museums and galleries.
Juliet Rogers has had a 30 year career in the book publishing industry in both New Zealand and Australia. She was Managing Director of Random House NZ, a position she held for some nine years before migrating across the Tasman and becoming Managing Director of Random House Australia. From 2002 to 2011, Juliet was CEO of Murdoch Books,leaving to run her own business, publishing books, high-end gift stationery and mentoring and consulting within the wider book industry. Juliet chaired Booksellers New Zealand for a number of years and was President of the Australian Publishers Association for three years. She has also been Chair of the book industry charity, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Juliet was CEO of the Australian Society of Authors until recently and is now consulting to the publishing industry.
Sunil Badami has done lots of things to pay the bills while he makes his art. From managing a pub on a mountain on the Isle of Man to a sex shop in Kings Cross, he’s had more jobs than haircuts! But while such work experiences can make for great material, and can save the headspace you want to keep creating, how can you use your creative skills and talents in ways that help you not only do what you do best, but in ways that can offer more productive and better paid opportunities to do so? What are the opportunities for writers seeking flexibility that don’t involve just making coffee? In an engaging, entertaining, enlightening and far ranging discussion, writer, academic, broadcaster and ASA mentor Sunil Badami will tell you some stories from his varied career and how he’s managed to find lots of different, interesting and lucrative opportunities, as well as offering some insights and tips on how you find more ways to help support yourself and your creative work.
Matt TuckerCPA is Principal at Creative Crunchers, an arts and entertainment industry specialist accounting firm located in Fortitude Valley, Qld. He enjoys looking after a range of clients including individuals, partnerships, companies and trusts and has a particular interest in structuring, Film + TV production companies and their casts and crew. He has served on the boards of PlayLab and Radio 4ZzZ, volunteered for Arts Law Centre of Qld and Transit Lounge and spoken for YAQ, QPIX, MEAA, QMusic, BigSound, APRA/AMCOS, InTune Music Conference, Griffith University Film School, New York Film Academy and Music Industry College.
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All six sessions non-member price $300, saving of $60 = one session for free
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