Now, I know you're all like, "Donna, if someone wanted to publish my novel, I wouldn't CARE what the heck was in the contract."
Here's the thing: when the glow of the shiny new author-publisher relationship wears off and you realize you just traded months (ahem, years) of blood/sweat/tears/sanity for a year-long fruit-of-the-month club membership and a bag of Swedish Fish, you'll be a little upset.
Or maybe not.
Either way, I wrote a summary of his talk, and it can be found at the ever-so-excellent Guide to Literary Agents blog.
PS - Contracts sound like a snooze-fest, but they're not -- PLUS, it's super important that you understand what's what in all that lingo -- that's your novel baby it'll be talking about one day!
thanks for this! I also heard Edward talk about this at an Ottawa writers' conference. He's straight forward and has lots of charisma, eh?
ReplyDeleteI also attended one of his talks on contracts at the SCBWI Winter Conference. Good info. Edward is definitely an awesome agent and a good person, too. (I met him a few years back at a workshop, and he's very kind.)
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TerryLynn & Dawn - Yes, I'd heard mant good things about Edward from the conference circuit, and I'm glad I finally got to hear him myself.
ReplyDeleteHardygirl - Hope you found it useful!