Tag Archives: Contracts

The good, the bad, and the “that could have gone better” about subcontracting

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

Patricia Anderson, PhD, runs an editing and literary and literary consulting business, Helping You Get Published, and has hired several editorial subcontractors over her company’s fourteen-year history. Amelia Gilliland holds an editing certificate from SFU and has worked in-house at … Continue reading →

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Editing books in translation

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Iva Cheung| 4 Comments

Yesterday I gave a talk at the EAC-BC meeting about editing books in translation, and I was buoyed by the thought-provoking discussions that came out of the audience, which was packed with expertise. Here’s a short summary of my presentation. Why … Continue reading →

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February EAC-BC meeting

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Iva Cheung| 1 Comment

A week from today, on Wednesday, February 20, I’ll be giving a talk at the EAC-BC meeting about editing books in translation. I’ll talk about copyright, the editor–translator relationship, special issues in translation projects, and strategies for getting work as … Continue reading →

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Writing Rights—personal perspectives

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

In his Writing Rights session, David Scott Hamilton made an incredibly important point when he described asking for a royalty in his contract negotiations with Anvil. The publisher showed him the numbers and said, *We just can’t do it.” That … Continue reading →

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Writing Rights, Session 3—Carolyn Swayze on negotiating the best possible contract

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

Carolyn Swayze is the president of Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency, where she represents authors of literary fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. She spoke at the Writing Rights workshop about contracts. As an agent, she works with authors to … Continue reading →

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Writing Rights, Session 2—Martha Rans on copyright law

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Iva Cheung| Leave a comment

Martha Rans is a copyright lawyer who co-founded the Artists’ Legal Outreach. The ALO runs a legal clinic at which artists and arts organizations can, by donation, have a thirty-minute consultation with a lawyer or law student about a problem … Continue reading →

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Writing Rights: Writing, Translation, and Copyright

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Iva Cheung| 1 Comment

I’ve signed on to give a talk at the February 2013 EAC-BC meeting about editing books in translation. Figuring I should get a translator’s perspective on the topic, I’ve slowly been making my way through Andrew Wilson’s anthology Translators on … Continue reading →

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