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contracts
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I’m going to do something a little bit different today, and post a general question from the blogosphere. Why, the internets ask, on reading this article about James Frey’s “fiction factory”, would anyone sign that wretched contract? Or, more fully, on reading the brilliant and pithy Maureen Johnson’s post on […]
A whole series of shoes for J.P., who writes: If an author gets signed with a publisher for a 5-book novel series, for example, because their first book does well, would there be a chance if say the second and third book don’t do so hot that the publisher could […]
I came across something very interesting yesterday, and I wanted to share. In Neil Gaiman’s blog, under a lengthy but important several paragraphs about stem cell research, Neil mentioned a bonus clause in his contract for The Graveyard Book. Specifically, in a response about the obligations of a writer under […]