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Some Guidelines Before Signing A Novel Contract
You will get to know that the publisher of your novel can have some rights in the contract if the book becomes a movie in the long run.
It’s never a good choice to opt for agreements that give the publisher of your novel some rights and privileges to earn some money when the novel has been taken by the cinema or televisions companies. This is because they will yield a lot of profits as the sales of the novel increase day by day.
You can still sign a contract which gives the publisher all the rights to take part in any deal if you think your novel is not that interesting.
As you are signing this novel contract, make sure that the publisher has to send you two royalty statements per annum.The arrival of each of these statements should have a six-month disclosing period from which you are supposed to receive each after the 90 days of the disclosing period have elapsed.
This print out will show you how the sales are progressing. The publisher will tell you the number of copies which have been bought and those that are still on sale. The publisher has to try hard to sell all the copies because if some are left, he is liable of paying for them.
Don’t expect to receive any pay check in the first and second disclosing periods because royalties may be lower than the advance you are going to receive. The payments will come later after the royalties have accumulated.
You will get the best results if you sign a contract which enables you to receive two royalty statements per annum.
You shouldn’t sign a contract that gives you royalty only when the novel has sold more than its advance because you won’t benefit at all.
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