• Signing a contract can be a cause for celebration, but there may be regrets later.
• As a publisher you often only return to them when something has gone wrong and you need to get out of the contract.
• The contract is a legal document, but connection and communication are what make the author-publisher relationship work.
• There is often a power imbalance.
• Rights in contracts; what is the publisher being assigned by the writer; ANZ rights, English-speaking rights, Commonwealth rights.
• Format rights, book, ebook, audiobook, extracts, film and TV and translation rights. The different sizes of books, and hardback and softback.
• Many companies now create their own audiobooks, but others sell those rights on.
• Length of contracts, some have finiste terms, most remain whilst a book is in print.
• Sunset clauses.
• Royalties are usually 10% of RRP, but that can be altered for books that sell in big numbers, these are called rises.
• Pros and cons of advances, and how often advances are earned out. Why we prefer lower or no advances.
• Beware of contracts from companies that help writers self publish. Can be grossly unfair.
• Discussion about ebook royalties, usually 25% of net receipts.
• Royalties stay at 10% of RRP even when bookshops do deep discounts.
• Bulk book orders sometimes paid at 25% of net receipts; the pros of being entrepreneurial as a publisher.

In Australia: Going Under is available in bookshops and online stores in Australia and on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com.au/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/

In the USA: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/

In the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Under-memoir-secrets-addiction/dp/0645497231/

Going Under Audiobook: Going Under on Audible, narrated by Seana Smith, click here.

Going Under on Spotify: Listen to Going Under on Spotify here.

Jane Curry Links

• Jane Curry Advisory: www.janecurryadvisory.com
• Ventura Press: www.venturapress.com.au
• www.instagram.com/venturapress__

Seana Smith Links

• Seana Smith website: www.seanasmith.com
• Sober Journeys website: wwwsoberjourneys.com

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