Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
This is why it's important, as a writer, to have a good agent. It's the agent's job to sort out the contractual stuff, and to make sure that you aren't signing away things that you aren't aware of.
|
Sure, but if the agent falls down on the job, they don't get blamed.
HOW long did it take before someone here said, "Well, the author shouldn't have signed..." I don't see anyone saying "Man, that author must have had a &*^% agent."
Nor does the agent suffer from these problematic contracts in the same way the author does.
What we really need isn't better agents, but better contract law to protect the less powerful party in a contract from abuse.
And flying pigs. We need those too.