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AGENT SESSION - Understanding Publishing Contracts
AGENT SESSION WITH SAM HIYATE
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 | 11AM-12:30PM
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AWCS Members & When Words Collide Attendees: FREE
Non-Members: $20
A publisher wants to publish your book and they have just sent you a contract that seems to be in a foreign language. You sweat and panic. Not all publishing contacts are the same and if you don’t get it right now, what’s going to happen to your work down the road? The contract between you and your publisher lasts for the term of copyright, which is currently 75 years after the author’s death in the U.S. Come to this Q&A session and have all your publishing contract questions answered from someone who knows.
THIS WORKSHOP TAKES PLACE AT THE ALEXANDRA WRITERS CENTRE SOCIETY.
Sam Hiyate is keen to discover new voices and help writers prepare their works for market, and to help them build lasting careers. In the past two decades with THE RIGHTS FACTORY his hundreds of book deals have resulted in several bestsellers such as MORE, the memoir by Molly Roden Winter, THIS ONE SUMMER, the graphic novel by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, non-fiction such as HEALTHY AF (DITCH THE DIET) by Oonagh Duncan and THE MYTH of CAPITALISM by Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn, and fiction such as GIRLS IN WHITE DRESSES by Jennifer Close and THE ADULT by Bronwyn Fischer.
The Host of the podcast Agent Provocateur, Sam regularly appears at writers conferences and also teaches publishing (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Creative Writing (University of Toronto). Before The Rights Factory, Sam ran the literary division of The Lavin Agency in 2003, building a client list and completing his first deals. Sam also worked as editor and publisher for the small press, Gutter Press, from 1993 to 2002, and worked at the literary magazines Blood & Aphorisms and The Quarterly in the 90s.
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