I’ve known many authors–dozens in person and more than three thousand online. Many of us met on a now defunct writers’ website called Authonomy. John Holt is one of those authors. He and I are in some of the same FB groups. Yesterday, I saw his posts in one of those groups and asked him to write a guest blog article about the subject he’d posted about: Transferring Book Rights. He’s done quite a bit of research on the subject and written a terrific article that could help lots of authors.

Here is John Holt’s article:

TRANSFERRING BOOK RIGHTS

It’s not a pretty subject I grant you, but sadly death will come to all of us. So recently I have been given a bit of thought to passing on the royalties of my novels to my daughter.

Firstly, let me say that the book market is now vastly different to…