When Your Publishing Contract Flies a Red Flag: Clauses to Watch Out For

Findaway Voices, Machine Learning, and the New Rights Frontier

Bad Contract Alert: Webnovel

How to (Maybe) Get Out of Your Contract When Your Scam Re-Publisher Ghosts You

Publishing Contracts 101: Beware Internal Contradictions

Bad Contract Alert: Stary (aka Dreame)

A Contract Clause to Beware: Claiming Copyright on “Publisher’s Content”

Bad Contract Alert: Popink

Bad Contract Alert: GoodNovel

Bad Contract Alert: NovelCat

A Critical Look at Scribd’s Audiobook Reprint Contracts

Bad Contract Alert: ByteDance’s Fizzo (Fictum) Serialized Fiction App

Bad Contract Alert: EMP Entertainment and A&D Entertainment

Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself

Does the Bankruptcy Clause in Your Publishing Contract Really Protect You?

Contract Red Flag Alert: Perpetual License for Derivative Rights

Termination Fees in Publishing Contracts: Why They’re Not Just Bad for Authors

The Authors Guild’s Fair Contract Initiative

Rights Grab: Omni Reboot (Updated)

Editing Clauses in Publishing Contracts: How to Protect Yourself

SFWA Opens to Self-Published Authors; Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Makes Contract Changes

Two Red-Flag Sentences in Publishing Contracts

Transferring Copyright: Rights Grab At The Toast Magazine

Don’t Do This: Wrong Ways to Try and Escape Your Deadbeat Publisher

How to Request Rights Reversion From Your Publisher

Self-Publishing and Author-Agent Agreements: The Need for Change

Start Media Responds to Questions on Purchase of Whiskey Creek Press

Start Media Buys Whiskey Creek Press, Imposes New Contract Terms

Early Termination Fees in Publishing Contracts: A Cautionary Tale

Swoon Reads: New “Crowdsourced” Teen Romance Imprint

Publishing Terms at Autharium

Random House Announces New Terms at Digital Imprints Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept, and Flirt

SFWA De-Lists Hydra; Random House Responds

Second-Class Contracts? Deal Terms at Random House’s Hydra Imprint

Guest Blog Post: Mustering the Courage to Turn Down a Publishing Contract

The Importance of Reversion Clauses in Book Contracts

Publishing Industry Terms and Contracts: Some Resources, and Some Advice

When is a Dodgy Publisher Like a Stopped Clock?

Guest Blog Post: The Struggle to Revert Rights From Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Red Flag Publishing Contract Clauses: A Termination Clause That Isn’t