Come armed with all your questions to this informative session with publishing expert Katherine Day, as she provides an overview of publishing contracts, their pitfalls, how to spot a scam and those clauses that require extra attention.
You will learn:
- How publishing contracts differ from other contracts
- How to decode the meaning of the clauses in a standard publishing contract
- How to recognise the parts of the contract you should be most concerned about
- How to recognise what you can negotiate and which clauses tend to remain fixed
- How to evaluate what agents do and how they can help
About the tutor:
Katherine Day is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in Publishing Practice at the University of Melbourne. She has over 15 years’ experience as an editor: in-house at Penguin Books (Australia) and then as a freelance adult fiction and non-fiction editor for Penguin Random House, Allen & Unwin, Thames & Hudson and the University of Queensland Press. Her authors have included Carmel Bird, Maggie Alderson, Anne Brooksbank, Graeme Base, Fiona Horne, Gretel Killeen and Gabrielle Wang.
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