title: Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyrights, Trademarks and Contracts in Plain Language
author: Tonya Marie Evans
description: "Covers every phase of the writing and publishing process . . . with clarity and reader-friendliness. Great tool for every writer." -- <i>Marilyn Ross, cofounder of SPAN and coauthor of Complete Guide to Self-Publishing and Jump Start Your Book Sales</i><br /><br />"The most often asked questions I receive from authors involve the publishing contract. Now I direct them to [this book]." -- <i>Max Rodriguez, Publisher/Editor of QBR The Black Book Review</i><br /><br />"Timely, well-written, and authoritative . . . I highly recommend this book." -- <i>Dan Poynter, Author of The Self-Publishing Manual</i>
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  > > This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  > are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  > resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  > coincidental.
  
  > Copyright © 2020 by Annie Rains  
  >  Excerpt from _Skillet Love_ © 2019 by Anne Byrn  
  >  Cover design and illustration by Elizabeth Turner Stokes  
  >  Cover copyright © 2020 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.  
  >  Bonus novella _Sealed with a Kiss_ © 2020 by Melinda Wooten
  
  > Hachette Book Group supports the right to free expression and the value of
  > copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to
  > produce the creative works that enrich our culture.
  
  > The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is
  > a theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like permission
  > to use material from the book (other than for review purpose