Guides and Articles

The Society has a number of Quick Guides and Occasional Papers that answer common queries.

The following Guides are free to download:
 

• Author Appearances Report
• Events checklist and Invoicing checklist for events
• Guidance for authors talking in universities
• Guidance for festival organisers
• Guidance for schools
• Guidance for schools and universities on engaging self-employed authors for one-off appearances
• Tax on foreign income (including US ITINs)
• Quick Guide to Authors' Agents
• Quick Guide to Copyright and Moral Rights
• Quick Guide to Permissions
• Vanity Publishing
• What sort of deal are you being offered?

Members/associates can view all of the Society's Guides and a large range of articles from The Author by logging into the members' area of the website.

The following Guides are available free to members/associates of the Society, £10 post free to non-members:

• POD/Ebook Publishing
• Publishing Contracts
• Translator-Publisher Agreements
• Self-Publishing Fiction, General Non-fiction, Poetry and Memoirs. Self-Publishing Specialist Non-fiction supplement

The following Guides are available free to members/associates, £7.50 post free to non-members:

• Author Appearances

The following Guides are available free to members/associates, £5 post free to non-members:

• Ghost Writing/Collaboration Contracts
• Indexing Your Book
• Chasing Payment
• Claiming for Infringement

The following Guides are free to members/associates, £2 post free to non-members:

• The Protection of Titles
• Your Copyrights After Your Death
• Copyright in Artistic Works including Photographs
• Value Added Tax 2010-2011
• Income Tax 2012-2013
• Libel, Privacy and Confidentiality
• Marketing Your Book
• Dealing with Newspapers and Magazines

The following Occasional Papers are free to members/associates, £1 post free to non-members:

• Film Options on Literary Properties
• Vanity/Subsidy Publishing
• Packaged Books and Co-Editions

To request any of the above, please email us. If you are not a member, please send your order to Publications, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB, enclosing a cheque made payable to The Society of Authors. You can also pay by credit/debit over the phone on 0207 373 6642 and the guides can be sent electronically.

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