Top 10 Publishers To Be Ware Of

First time writers and writers looking for Publishers.
Please review and read the information. Be familiar with contracts, laws, clauses and lingo
in publisher contracts. The power of knowledge is in your favor when getting a book publisher.

Learn about a publisher contract first and study who are good publishers and who are not.
Please learn about:
Interminable Agency Clauses in which the publisher sneaks this line into a contract should definitely should raise a red flag to the author.
More here: http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/alerts/

Fee charging: have it in your contract what is considered acceptable and what is not acceptable. Perhaps all approvals of charges must be sent to you before they are allowed to be done.
Are they in the business of milking the author or in the business of publishing books to find true readers?
See more at: http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/alerts/
See top 10 Publishers for authors to  beware of:
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-valentines-day-from-writer-beware.html
Info is from the blog and author beware. Get more info here: beware@sfwa.org
Writer alerts see more at: http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/alerts/

More good stuff to learn, know and review for yourself before signing your first contract.

Make sure their is a time limit for you to have the option to refuse the option of renewal. If they were good to you and gave you a great deal great. But if they didn't give you a good deal you need to have a option to re-negotiate or get a new publisher.

OPTION CLAUSES BE WARE

IF THERE IS NO OPTION CLAUSE THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING FOR THE WRITER!

Make sure you have a OPTION clause that allows the writer to:  refuse the publisher's offer.

Make sure you have a clause that: gives the publisher a "set time frame in which you can look over the contract and decide."

This means you can submit your book manuscript hoping for a great new renewal of contract and terms. Once you look over the option to renew clause and don't like it you then can refuse the publishers offer if you don't like it.

IDEAL: HAVE A OPTION TIME FOR THE PUBLISHER to review your manuscript work and give you a renewal option. KEY IS A TIME- 1-2 MONTHS MAXIMUM OTHERWISE THEY WILL LINGER ON FOR MANY MONTHS KEEPING YOU IN LIMBO AND POSSIBLE MISSED OPPORTUNITIES ELSEWHERE.

Key: there must be a time limit for the publisher's decision which gives them an obligation to respond quickly to you.

Key: you must have a clause that gives you a option to refuse the publisher's offer or renegotiate the offer.

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Top Literary Agents You Might Want to Reconsider

http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/thumbs-down-agency/