title: The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference
author:  Tad Crawford 
description: "An excellent survey of the business side of authorship today." -- <i>Booklist</i><br /><br />"An indispensable handbook for anyone who writes." -- <i>Publisher's Weekly</i>
zlib_text: ### About the Author
  
  
  Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in the _Daily Telegraph_ , the _Observer_ ,
  the _Sunday Times_ and _Esquire_. He lives in west London with his wife and
  their three children.
  
  
  ## **Acknowledgements**
  
  
  Thanks to Rachel Cugnoni, Suzanne Dean, Lara Soley Johannsdottir, John Bacon,
  Ian Hunter, Gudrun Agnarsdottir, Roger and Christina Bowdler, Simon and
  Catherine Moore, the Energy Saving Trust, Councillor Pat Haynes, the Audit
  Unit at Pentonville Prison, the staff at Lots Road power station, the
  Crossness Beam Engine Trust, Pall Matthiasson, Ron Beard, Susan Sandon, Mike
  Grabsky, and Birna, Kristjan, Lilja and Valdis.
  
  
  And finally, a fitful round of derisive applause for Hasbro, who have ensured
  you won’t be seeing a dog, boot, title deed or Monopoly board graphically
  represented within these pages. I am consequently delighted to confirm that
  this book is in no way endorsed by or associated with Hasbro, and indeed that
  the royalties they might otherwise have accrue