How to Be Your Own Literary Agent An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published

Name: How to Be Your Own Literary Agent An Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published
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ISBN: 9780618380411

ISBN-10: 0618380418

ISBN-13: 9780618380411

Edition: 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Richard Curtis

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How to Be Your Own Literary Agent takes the mystery out of book publishing for any writer, published or not. Richard Curtis -- a top literary agent for more than thirty years -- provides a comprehensive practical overview of the publishing process, from submissions to contract negotiations to subsidiary rights to marketing, publicity, and beyond. He also gives away trade secrets and invaluable wisdom -- candid advice that can be found nowhere else. Now completely revised and expanded, How to Be Your Own Literary Agent is essential reading for all writers. * Big publishers, small publishers, self-publishers, e-publishers: how to keep up in a rapidly changing business * The new breed of busy…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Richard Curtis's screenwriting credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Mr. Bean.



Introduction



An Agent Looks at the Market



Slush



Negotiation



The Basic Deal



Warranties and Indemnities



Permissions



The Option Clause



Termination and Reversion of Rights



Royalty Statements



Ancillary Rights



Cyberbooks and Hyperauthors



The E-Book Revolution and How to Join It



Movie and Television Deals



Miscellaneous Provisions



All About Agents



To Publication Date



Is There Life After Pub Date?



Beyond the Bestseller List



Consenting Adults



Collaborations



Book Packagers



Auctions



Of Taxes and the Writer



Solidarity



Superstores



Titles, or My life in Titles, or The Title Game, or Adventures of a Title Maven, or Titles: The Writer's Indispensable Tool, or What's in a Title?, or The Principles of Titling, or My Kingdom for a Title, or ...



Let's Have Lunch



If I Were You



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