Track Changes: Contracts

Contracts! We get into the basic structure of your contract, and
all the rights, clauses, provisions, and negotiated terms you
need to know to make sure your contracts is right right for this
book and beyond.


We catch up with Jennifer de Leon as she prepares for
the release of her debut young adult novel, Don’t Ask Me
Where I’m From, on August 18. (Hear her First Draft
interview here.)


Then Sarah Burnes, literary agent with The Gernert Company, and
Jo Volpe, literary agent and President of New Leaf Literary &
Media, break down what authors should know to look for in their
contracts. And Kate Sullivan, senior content development manager
at New Leaf Literary & Media and former senior editor at many
Big 5 publishing houses, breaks it down from an editor’s point of
view.