For Agents

Stronger Deals for Your Clients

Secure the best terms for your clients by hiring us for deal memo and contract review, freeing up your time to find new talent, manage current clients, and close more deals.

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.

For Authors

Expert Advocacy

A publishing attorney can guide you through the publishing process and advocate on your behalf, getting you the strongest deal terms and protecting your rights as an author.

Author services include:

• Initial offer terms review and negotiation.

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

• Literary agency agreement review and negotiation. 

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

• Pre-publication manuscript legal reviews.

• Copyright and permissions consultation.

• General publishing industry and legal consultation.

For Publishers

Consistency and Expertise

Streamline your contract negotiations and maintain a consistently strong boilerplate, staying up to date with industry standards. 

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.