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Thu, Nov 02, 2006

Literary Wills

Posted at 5:58 pm MST to Miscellaneous

Author John M. Ford, who died recently, apparently didn't put his intentions for his literary estate into writing.

This happens far too often, and Neil Gaiman is actively trying to prevent future problems. He got a lawyer to write up a sample literary will and has posted it on his site, with instructions, and is offering to host sample wills for jurisdictions outside the US as well.

I need to pay attention to this when I update my will, which I really should do when I get back to Colorado next month (It's November now! I can talk about going home 'next month'). My current will dates from before I owned part of a business. I can't remember if the current will mentioned my writing and other creative work: I know it made special provision for my pets and collections of books, etc.

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