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Award Winning Author Maris Soule

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July 2, 2014

Yesterday I signed and mailed a contract for EAT CROW AND DIE to Five Star Publishing a subsidiary of Gale/Cengage Learning. Of course, before I signed, I read through the contract and began thinking about all of the different contracts I have signed over the years. My first contract with Harlequin Books (signed in 1983) […]

Read That Contract!

July 10, 2013

Lately I’ve been seeing posts asking questions about when a particular publisher (one I’m associated with) will be paying royalties, how much needs to be earned to cover the advance (including confusion on what exactly they received as an advance), and what rights were retained. I just recently signed a contract with an agent to […]