The nuts and bolts of the business of writing are as essential to a writer’s success as the writer’s work itself. How does a writer get an agent and an attorney? How does the writer’s work get sold and how is the writer compensated? What will the agent and the lawyer do for the writer? How are they compensated? How do writers work together?

This workshop will cover:

• The principles of copyright law as the underpinnings of all writing;
• What agents do and what lawyers do - how their functions sometimes overlap and how they differ, the process of obtaining an agent and a lawyer, when and why an agent is necessary and when and why an agent may not be necessary, and how agents and lawyers are compensated by their clients.
• The content of a typical collaboration agreement and three reasons why they are an absolute necessity;
• A review, in detail, of a typical publishing agreement--royalties, advances, rights granted and rights withheld, etc.;
• The editing process: what happens if the publisher rejects the manuscript, the publisher’s ultimate acceptance of the manuscript, actual publication after acceptance, and promotion and publicity.