Literary Agents Discuss Foreign Rights and the International Book Market

Literary Agents Discuss Foreign Rights and the International Book Market

Should writers seek publication in the US even if their book’s sensibility isn’t “American”? If they already have a book deal, who should control their book’s foreign rights, their agent or their publisher? How do agents and publishers determine which geographic and language territories they should target around the world, and what sorts of challenges do they face when dealing with foreign publishers?

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Why a Urologist-Turned-Educator and a Trial Lawyer Decided to Self-Publish

Why a Urologist-Turned-Educator and a Trial Lawyer Decided to Self-Publish

When client Mara Monoski told me that she decided to self publish her novel, I was curious about why she made this decision. When I first started working with her, she was on the traditional publishing track. Client Brett Burlison was also keen on finding an agent and traditional publisher but ultimately decided to publish his novel under his own label. Here is my brief interview with both writers about their experiences self-publishing and their advice for other writers considering the same.

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