Membership Overview

This is a plain-language guide. The full Membership Agreement is the legal document.

You Keep Your Rights

  • You own your work completely — all copyrights, characters, and IP stay yours.
  • You decide what to price your work at, even free.
  • You have complete freedom to choose your own distribution channels, and promotional strategies.

What SLM Provides

  • ISBNs for qualifying works, ensuring professional cataloging and global discoverability.
  • Branding under the SLM imprint to add credibility and community identity to your work.
  • Guidance on formatting, layout, and metadata to meet publishing and distribution standards.
  • Access to our community for peer review, shared resources, and co-marketing support.

Active Publishing Shares

  • For each qualifying work published under an SLM ISBN, you earn one Active Publishing Share.
  • Publishing Shares give you an potential financial stake in the value of Stellar Loom Media

Member Expectations

  • Be active in the solo/small-group expanded TTRPG community, not just Stellar Loom Media spaces.
  • Follow our creative standards, narrative-forward, respectful content with clear content warnings if needed.
  • Provide some constructive support to other members — beta reading, editing, feedback.
  • Use the Stellar Loom Media logo and imprint information where required on published works.

Money Flow

  • All sales revenue from your works goes directly to you.
  • A voluntary shared fund can be provided to
  • The fund can provide support to all members for editing, cover artwork, and other items
  • The fund has strict rules and larger spending is voted on by the collective

Governance

  • Each member has an equal vote, regardless of the number of shares held.
  • Decisions are made collectively, covering fund use, amendments, and other major organizational actions.
  • The Guide handles some operational matters and safeguards the brand and infrastructure.

Leaving the Collective

  • You can resign at any time. (We obviously hope you don’t)
  • Any ISBNs already assigned to your works can continue to be used for those specific editions, but new editions would need a new ISBN.

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