Help! How do I write a contract for working with a self published author?
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Hi everyone. I'm assuming that some of you at least have worked with self published authors, so I'm hoping someone can point me towards some resources to use when writing a contract.
I've been asked by a self publishing author to do a cover for her book, as well as some chapter heading illustrations. She has asked if I would use a work for hire contract, and I already know that I don't want to do that. What I want to do is license my artwork for her for the first edition of her book, as well as for the ebook. But I'm at a loss when it comes to actually writing that out in contract language! Do any of you know of resources, contract templates, etc to help illustrators in this situation?
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I had a zoom interview with a self published author a couple days ago (turned out the author didn't do any research, had no business plan, or concept of budget, I turned this project down for this reason) and so, when researching contracts with self published authors I found this resource, "Business and Legal Forms" by Tad Crawford, and he has many other variations in this series, including one for Illustrators. And so in this I imagine there will be many iterations of legal forms that might be useful. Worth checking into?
Hope this helps!
Erin Richardson
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@ArtistErin thanks Erin! I’ll check it out.
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@kirsten-mcg & @ArtistErin -- yep, Business and Legal Forms by Tad Crawford was the resource I was going to recommend too.
This article from the Business of Illustration website was also very helpful to me when I was drawing up my own contract template for illustration jobs.
