Could we maybe get MSW to do a comparison of the LUNA (general) contract and a FN contract?
The problem with that is that the LUNA contracts don't have the xxx-d out boilerplate, so I have no idea what the boilerplate actually is; they're also something like 23 pages long. Not legal pages, and actually, the type is larger than the Ballantine contract I was going to type in, so in all, they may be the same length.
The Harlequin LUNA contracts come from Switzerland. Head Office is in Toronto. Negotiations and my editor are in New York. Go figure.
I do know, though, that I got the payout for the second and third of three novels in thirds, as opposed to the half/quarter/quarter dancinghorse mentions; which is to say, the first book (which was written) half on signing, half on delivery (of accepted revisions); the other -- on signing, on acceptable proposal (which, umm, in my case I "bargained" up to half a book (first half, even) in order to Never Ever Have To Write Another Outline; most people would think this incredibly stupid), and on acceptance of completed novel.
I'd also like to mention that Tor has been pushing payments in four parts for a number of their authors (NOT first-time authors, for obvious reasons); Quarter on-signing, quarter on delivery (of finished book); quarter on hardcover publication; quarter on paperback publication.
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Date: 2004-09-15 01:56 pm (UTC)The problem with that is that the LUNA contracts don't have the xxx-d out boilerplate, so I have no idea what the boilerplate actually is; they're also something like 23 pages long. Not legal pages, and actually, the type is larger than the Ballantine contract I was going to type in, so in all, they may be the same length.
The Harlequin LUNA contracts come from Switzerland. Head Office is in Toronto. Negotiations and my editor are in New York. Go figure.
I do know, though, that I got the payout for the second and third of three novels in thirds, as opposed to the half/quarter/quarter
I'd also like to mention that Tor has been pushing payments in four parts for a number of their authors (NOT first-time authors, for obvious reasons); Quarter on-signing, quarter on delivery (of finished book); quarter on hardcover publication; quarter on paperback publication.