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.
Related articles
The Publishers Association's Code of Practice
PLR: The Author's Right to Payment Public Lending Right UK