Review and negotiate draft contracts that you have received from publishers and other entities

Summarize your signed contracts in layman’s terms to help you understand your contractual obligations

Interpret your signed contracts as needed

Analyze your royalty statements against your signed contracts’ royalty provisions and face with the paying party to ask questions and resolve disputes, if any

Request and track reversion of rights for your out of print books

Advise you generally on day-to-day Business Affairs matters

Review and improve your proprietary contract form(s)

Draft client contracts on your proprietary form(s) and negotiate their change requests

Review and negotiate draft contracts that you have received from clients who insist on using their own forms

Interpret your signed contracts as needed

Advise you generally on day-to-day Business Affairs matters and draft any related paperwork, such as terminating a contract for a defunct client project and preparing the related termination letter

Review or draft, as the case may be, and negotiate, contracts between publishers and parties represented by literary agencies and attorneys, both on a routine basis and to improve or establish boilerplates

Serve as your Contracts Person by administrating the lifecycle of your Author and related contracts and handling the myriad associated tasks, such as advising you on industry standard best practices for Contracts Department workflow and recordkeeping, and data entry and info dissemination, while working with you and your staff to develop Contracts-related policies and procedures that are transparent, tailored to your needs, and focused on efficiency

Advise you and your staff generally on day-to-day Business Affairs matters

Fill in for an in-house Contracts Person who has gone on leave or left your organization, to keep things moving while you seek a permanent replacement

Additionally, for Attorneys New to Publishing: Advise you on publishing industry business standards and parameters, and prepare contract summaries in layman’s terms to help your Author clients understand their contractual obligations

Review and negotiate draft contracts that you have received

Check that contractual relationships, the division of rights and obligations, and formal compensation shares and related mechanisms, are being properly established in the related contracts in line with the deal

Summarize your signed contracts in layman’s terms to help you understand your contractual obligations

Interpret your previously signed contracts

Analyze compensation statements against your signed contracts’ compensation provisions

Advise you generally on day-to-day, related Business Affairs matters

Review and negotiate draft contracts that you have received

Check that you are not signing away rights in your intellectual property which may be included in your presentation or interview

Check that you are retaining creative control over your professional image and brand

Summarize your signed contracts in layman’s terms to help you understand your contractual obligations

Interpret your previously signed contracts

Advise you generally on day-to-day, related Business Affairs matters

I love to share my experience about life after college, the publishing industry, contract work, balancing career and motherhood, and entrepreneurship!

Previous engagements include speaking to… students at Penn State University about life after college and careers in publishing as a guest of the English Department; attorneys at Practising Law Institute (PLI) in New York City about publishing contracts; and students at City College, CUNY about publishing contracts

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