Free e-Reports
Our free e-Reports cover a range of topics including copyright, contracts and more! Click here to access FREE e-Reports on copyright for writers
Downloadable Sample Forms
Collaboration, literary agency, publishing, permissions and more! Click here to access our sample forms library
e-Books and p-Books
Several books and e-books written with the rights of writers and other creative folks in mind. Click here for legal reference guides for writers
Websites
Copyright.gov. The official Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
Para Publishing. The site of independent publishing guru, Dan Poynter.
About self-Publishing. Everything you need to know to self-publish.
The Savvy Book Marketer. Dana Lynn Smith helps authors and indie publishers learn how to sell more books through her how-to guides, blog, newsletter, and private coaching. Get her free Top Book Marketing Tips ebook at www.BookMarketingNewsletter.com.
Author Marketing Experts. AME, owned and operated by marketing mogul Penny C. Sansevieri, works with authors and publishers daily to create effective marketing campaigns for mainstream, self-published, and print-on-demand books. AME promotes authors of all genres, including romance, mystery, thrillers, inspirational, self-help, literary fiction, business, parenting, relationships, and more.
Monkey C Media. Founded by Chad and Jeniffer Thompson, Monkey C Media is a full design house offering a wide range of design services and marketing concepts. They love what they do and they’re simply the best too! MCM designed this site!
Writers Organizations
Independent Book Publishers Association (formerly Publisher’s Marketing Association). IBPA is a leading trade association of nearly 3,800 independent publishers. Founded in 1983, it serves book, audio, and video publishers located in the United States and around the world.
The Authors Guild. AG is a leading advocate for writers’ interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression. It provides legal assistance and a broad range of web services to its members.
Literary Professionals
Editors
Pentouch for editing or proofreading of all literary works.
EditorForYou.com – Melanie Rigney is highly recommended for content editing and manuscript evaluation. She no longer does copyediting or proofreading.
Agents
Victoria Sanders & Associates, LLC
Crichton & Associates Literary Agency
AgentQuery.com – Everything you ever wanted to know about the author-agent relationship and a searchable database to identify the right agents to query.
Lawyers
The PLK Law Group is a boutique law firm owned by Patricia Lawrence Kalaris is a New Jersey based law firm focusing on all aspects of transactional law in the areas of intellectual property; entertainment and sports; small business and corporate law; and contract law including drafting, negotiating and otherwise transacting and enforcing contract deals.
Nichole L. Badger, Esq., MBA works with members of the sports, media and entertainment industries on various matters including contract negotiations/review, corporate strategies, endorsement contracts, licensing, marketing, intellectual property matters, real estate transactions as well as nonprofit initiatives.
The Law Offices of Lloyd J. Jassin provides a full range of legal services on book publishing, entertainment, copyright, trademark, licensing, internet and corporate law matters. Attorney Jassin is the author of The Copyright Permission and Libel Handbook.
Publishing Attorney and owner of the Publishing Law Center, a site is devoted to providing quality information for the publishing community – publishers, authors, editors, web masters, and freelancers.
Jonathan Kirsch is a publishing and intellectual property attorney based in Los Angeles, an expert witness on publishing industry matters, an Adjunct Professor and the author of two books on publishing law and seven books on the Bible as literature and the history of religion.
PR/Marketing Tools
EventBrite.com. Create an event, promote it via EventBrite.com online, sell tickets or registrations collect credit card payments, and manage the event quickly and easily without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars! Pay just a small transaction fee when you actually sell tickets. Affordable online event promotion and management. And free events are FREE to promote via EventBrite.com.
Protect Your Rights on the Web
ICANN Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy. If you discover someone has infringed your work on-line or has absconded with your website domain name, contact the Internet Service Provider and submit a Takedown Request (a form can be provided by the ISP). Then submit a Complaint to WIPO to have the domain name transferred back to you. Click here for an example of a model complaint and response.
Ivan Hoffman Article on DMCA Take-Down Provisions
