title: The Writer's Law Primer
author: Linda Pinkerton
description: In comprehensible and entertaining prose, Linda Pinkerton labels the nuts and bolts of basic law for novelists, journalists, freelancers, screenwriters, computer program authors, and other wordsmiths. The text covers royalties, copyright (including copies of the actual forms in the appendix), protected speech under the First Amendment, tax advice, publishing contracts, agents, law and the freelance writer, points and perils of self-publishing, lawsuits, and many other nagging questions that you'll never get around to hiring a lawyer to answer. A chapter devoted to computer software authorship, copyright, and the road to licensing explains the parallels and differences between this relatively new authorship and print publishing.
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  An Agent for Diana
  
  The Pinkerton Matchmaker
  
  Book 10
  
  Rebecca Connolly
  
   _An Agent for Diana_
  
  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents
  are all products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as
  real. Any resemblances to persons, organizations, events, or locales are
  entirely coincidental.
  
  The book contains material protected under International and Federal Copyright
  Laws and Treaties. All rights are reserved with the exceptions of quotes used
  in reviews. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
  or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording,
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  the author.
  
  The Pinkerton Matchmaker  
  ©2018 Rebecca Connolly
  
  Cover Design by Virginia McKevitt
  
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  _Dedication_
  
  To Indiana, for being my lovely home state and having a real story to explore
  in the time pe