Reddit mentions of WOOL Gathering: (A Charity Anthology)

I see this occasionally in the self published SF/fantasy market, a type of sharecropping where someone opens up their world to other writers. It would help the project to have a couple of books already published and visible.

I've seen Hugh Howey doing this with his Silo and Sand worlds. (Wool Gatherings.) Ann Christy wrote a series set in Silo 49 that some are saying is better than the original works, which is I suppose a risk you take opening things up. But, hey, it's a built in pyramid scheme, and I mean that in a good way, because popularity downstream is always promotion of the original works.

Howey was a bit unusual as a self-published writer during his Wool years, in that he was super involved in social media promoting his writing. I remember seeing him on Youtube and Facebook being very outgoing in an effort to make fans.

I have no idea how Howey structures the rights for his ideas, and this is clearly a critical issue, you could take royalties or create a Creative Commons license.

You'd want to have a 'bible' of boundaries, parameters, restrictions in addition to your worldbuilding file, so potential writers would know how far they can change things, Susan absolutely cannot go to Dartmouth, that sort of thing.

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Does either of your novels use an "outsider POV seeing the culture for the first time" convention?