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Do your eyes glaze over when you think of book contracts? Do you look no further than the advance and royalties? Does your contract reflect your priorities? Here are five questions to ask your publisher – before signing!
Henley Hall Press’s first title, to be published in Spring 2025, will be On Plan & Proportion: Garden Design Inspired by the Past, by George Carter, garden designer & historian and the winner of many Chelsea gold medals.
On 8 January 2021, maverick genius Elon Musk tweeted for critical feedback on how to spend his fortune. (He is now officially the richest man in the world, with a record-breaking $188.5bn as of 7 January 2021.)
Here’s another idea. St Michael’s Church in Brimfield, Herefordshire, a listed building dating from 1100 (with many rebuilds and restorations over the centuries), is fundraising for £10,000 for repairs.
When I started out in publishing, newspapers devoted real space to book reviews, publishers took their A-list authors out to lunch at The Ivy, and social media was considered a daring new invention.
The internet has revolutionized the world. We can now access a wealth of information in just a few clicks of our smartphone. However, combined with social media, it has also created a culture of instant gratification.
Most authors have heard about the pros and cons of big publishers versus smaller ones – larger publishers generally have more money to spend while smaller publishers are thought to take more care of the books on their lists, especially with regards to editing.