on Writer Beware:
Hi, everyone. My name is Michael Capobianco, and although I’ve been an adjunct member of Writer Beware for some time now, this is my first official blog post.
I’m also the Chair of SFWA’s Contracts Committee, which means I see a lot of bad contracts, both for book-length and short fiction. I’ve gotten used to much of the unfortunate and often contradictory clauses in these contracts, but last week I ran into something that caught my attention: a virtually identical terrible clause in two separate small publishers’ book contracts, a clause that I had never seen before.
Both contracts were for original fiction, but aside from the fact that neither paid an advance, they looked fairly different from one another until they came to this clause. To save you any further suspense, here it is:
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Thanks Chris for sharing Michael’s article. I have shared to my suzannenewnhamwriter Facebook page, as well as to the Eurobodalla Writers Facebook page.
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Thanks, Suzanne 🤗
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Things like this showing up in publishers’ contracts are one more reason I’m happy to be self-published!
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