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Society of Authors
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We're the largest UK union for all types of writers, illustrators and literary translators. 11,000 strong, fighting for a nicer industry since 1884. 🖋️🎨💬
Apr 29, 2022 • 27 tweets • 11 min read
Gather round, everyone. We need to talk about widespread bad practice among companies that charge writers for publication. This is a long thread, but it’s important. So read on. Share. And be very concerned.

#IsItASteal Illustration of a book made out of money To clarify, we are not talking about self-publishing services. We are talking about publishing deals where the writer not only pays thousands for publication but also hands over rights in their work.

#IsItASteal
Aug 19, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Every month our Advisors put their heads together and write about the pitfalls in author contracts and what to look out for as part of our Before You Sign blog series.

I'm here to round up all our advice from this year so far. THREAD. 1) Negotiating payments for translators – written by Catherine Fuller of our Translators Association. A lot of useful advice here on fees and rights: societyofauthors.org/News/Blogs/Bef… #BeforeYouSign
Sep 7, 2018 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Okay, gather round everyone. We need to talk. Big thread, sorry, but I would like you to read it. My name’s Niall and I do the tweets here. (You probably know that already.) The discourse online has been in a bad shape lately (you probably know that too), and something’s about to go a bit wrong as a result.