About the Service

Literary Lawyer is a publishing law practice dedicated to counseling authors, agents, and publishers in the book publishing industry.

 

Author services include:

• Contract review and negotiation with trade publishers (from indie to big 5), university presses and other academic publishers, and hybrid publishers.

• Pre-publication manuscript legal reviews.

• Literary agency agreement review and negotiation. 

• Drafting releases, co-author agreements, ghostwriting agreements, illustrator agreements, and anthology contributor agreements.

• Copyright and permissions consultation.

• General publishing industry and legal consultation.

 

Agency services include:

• Deal memo consultation.

• Author contract review and negotiation.

• Agency agreement updates.

• Subsidiary rights license review and negotiation.

• Drafting co-author agreements and ghostwriting agreements.

• Legal consultation.

 

Publisher services include:

• Contract preparation and negotiation.

• New boilerplate drafting and updating.

• Drafting co-author agreements, amendments, termination letters, and other agreements.

• Pre-publication manuscript legal reviews.

• Legal consultation.

 

Please contact us to discuss your publishing legal needs at melissa@literarylawyer.com or www.literarylawyer.com.