Writer Beware ® Blogs!: Editing Clauses in Publishing Contracts: How to Protect Yourself
As a writer researching which literary journals and magazines would be a good fit for my short stories, I find articles like "Editing Clauses in Publishing Contracts: How to Protect Yourself" very informative, and appreciate what blogs like Writer Beware are doing to educate folks like me. Give it a read. When you send your work out into the world, it's with a small sense of anxiety over possibly entering into an arrangement that can become a nightmare. We are fortunate indeed to live in a time where information like this can be shared with millions, giving them much needed heads up and armor to empower themselves. Life is quite a journey, I'm thankful we don't have to travel it alone. There are always others out there.
In other news, I'm going to the writer's conference. My friend Stacy who I met at the one in 2009 gave me a call and said she's on board, so that's the final push I need. Yay!!! Perhaps I'm a writer with a small network after all.
Talk about destroying a writer’s work. So this is what happens after you give so much of yourself to write a book, only to have a publisher like "Undead Press" totally change everything you wrote, and you can’t do a thing about it because you overlooked a small “clause” that gave them the right to do it when you signed the contract.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable! This is so wrong. This is the same as buying a painting, then repainting new images on it. I’m sure that most writers want sell to their book to a publisher, but who would want his/her name to appear on a book rewritten into ruin. Unbelievable!