Thank you for so much info on contracts though. I had one published professor tell me that I didn;t need to know contracts - it was my agent's job to do this.
This is an entire separate rant, for me, but the most important point is this: Who's stuck with what you sign, you or your agent?
Well, you actually, because you signed it. If there's anything in the contract that's going to break your heart -- and really, there usually isn't -- you want to make sure you know it's there. Because it doesn't matter whether or not the contract is fine with your agent; he's not the one signing it. You are. He can tell you what he can and cannot do, what you can and cannot change, but you should have some idea yourself of what you're signing.
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Date: 2004-10-04 06:25 pm (UTC)This is an entire separate rant, for me, but the most important point is this: Who's stuck with what you sign, you or your agent?
Well, you actually, because you signed it. If there's anything in the contract that's going to break your heart -- and really, there usually isn't -- you want to make sure you know it's there. Because it doesn't matter whether or not the contract is fine with your agent; he's not the one signing it. You are. He can tell you what he can and cannot do, what you can and cannot change, but you should have some idea yourself of what you're signing.
This is true in anything, though <g>.