Negotiating Your Contract: The Power of the Informed Author
A novelist offers insight on how to successfully negotiate a publishing contract without help from an agent.
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Your Rights Revert: What to Do If Your Publisher Goes Under
A small-press editor offers four possible paths to take if the Oh No! moment arrives and your publisher closes its doors.
Getting Paid: How Book Advances Work
A behind-the-scenes look at the inexact science—and mathematics—of book advances, from small presses to the Big Five.
Hachette Buys Perseus, World’s Tiniest Book, and More
Emory University opens Seamus Heaney letters archive to public; rewriting adoption stories; Valley of the Dolls at fifty; and other news.
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The Giver Movie Trailer, Meg Wolitzer's YA Fiction, and More
Twenty years of The Western Canon; Grove Atlantic picks up Lefevre; a poet laureate for British waterways; and other news.
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Tolkien Lawsuit, Unfilmable Books, and More
The estate of J. R. R. Tolkien has filed an eighty million dollar lawsuit against Warner; NPR looks at difficulties of making "unfilmable" books into good movies; Jason Diamond considers what Philip Roth's retirement means for Jewish fiction; and other news.
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Twenty-One Lies Writers Tell Themselves, Jonathan Evison Sells Screen Rights, and More
A technology company intends to create a Spotify-like service for books; David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants has purchased film rights to Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving; Alexander Chee lists twenty-one lies writers tell themselves; and other news.
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How Lucky Can You Get?: What Can Happen After You Sign a Contract
Should an author simply count herself lucky to have landed a book deal, or should she fight for what she wants during the various stages of publishing it—the editing process, cover design, and promotion? Before deciding, it's important to understand what obstacles might stand in the way before encountering them and what to expect from all the effort.
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