Talk About Burying The Lead
Today HarperCollins announced their latest digital-only mystery imprint Witness. But buried in the third paragraph was the most interesting tidbit in the story! The real news item! Harpercollins is...
View ArticleArticle 5: Authors – Are You Auditing Your Royalty Statements? by Karen Dionne
After I read Kristin’s June article in her “What Makes a Good Agent” series and learned that publishers’ royalty statements sometimes contain significant errors, I took an informal survey. I wanted to...
View ArticleArticle 5: Good Agents Audit Royalty Statements
Over the last decade, I really wish I had tracked how much money NLA has recovered by carefully auditing our royalty statements every accounting period. Because of some big errors found a couple of...
View ArticleAre Subscription Services good For Authors?
On Wednesday, May 20, I was delighted to be in town for one of the Association of Authors’ Representatives‘ (AAR) monthly educational meetings, which are designed specifically for literary agents. Such...
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Like Finding Loose Change in the Sofa – Kind of
So just this week, we received an outstanding Australian royalty statement for one of our clients that had been missing. Because we actually track, review, and audit our statements, even foreign ones...
View ArticleAuthors, Do You Know Where Your Money Is?
(Just a note, this post is from our archives. Some references and links may be from past years.) Every six months, you get an envelope from your agent. You tear it open, take out the enclosed check and...
View ArticleFormer Egmont Authors: Check Your Royalty Statements
Publishing is a complex business with a lot of moving parts. Every contract is unique, and most errors we find on royalty statements are caused by data-entry mishaps that occur when contract terms are...
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What To Do If Your Books Are Popular In Iran?
The short answer is nothing. There actually isn’t much you can do. Rarely discussed in publishing is the fact that certain countries don’t recognize or honor copyright law. Persian countries (including...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy for Authors
Money, so they say, is a taboo subject, so don’t expect fellow writers to spill financial details. Until now. Hats off to Heather Demetrios for pulling back the curtain and being brave enough to share...
View ArticleContent Creators Deserve a Larger Slice of the Earnings Pie
The verdict is in. With headlines such as HarperCollins Sales Near $2 Billion and Publishing Sales Jumped 18.1% and First Half Profits Soared at Penguin Random House, it’s clear that at least in term...
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