PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2017 by Victoria Sutherland, Publisher, Foreword Reviews magazine — The worst thing you can imagine about foreign rights will happen if you don’t follow the proper procedures. For instance, you get an inquiry from a foreign publisher. You choose to work on the follow-up yourself and send PDF reading copies via email to the …

PUBLISHED MARCH 2016 by Lynn Rosen, IBPA Independent contributing editor Below, literary agents share with IBPA Independent’s contributing editor, Lynn Rosen, what they hope indie publishers bring to the table, and more. Lowenstein Associates SPECIALTY: We specialize in commercial and literary fiction as well as nonfiction by experts in their fields who have a built-in …

PUBLISHED JULY 1998 by Ivan Hoffman, Publishing Attorney — So you have finally found an agent to represent you and your work. Congratulations! And now the agent has presented his or her “standard” agency agreement to you for your signature. Let me cover some of the important provisions of this agreement so that you might …

For the majority of contracts signed and books acquired by independent publishers, the author-publisher negotiation is between the two parties without any intermediaries involved. Most authors generally don’t retain either an agent or lawyer to represent them when dealing with professional, educational, technical, or scientific publishers. Generally, agents do not represent the authors of small …