Publishing contract review, before you sign.
Our legal team reads your publishing contract and tells you, in plain language, what to accept, what to question and what to push back on.
A contract decides who owns your book, for how long, and what you earn from it.
Choose your level of review
Review
A written report flagging risky clauses and explaining each one in plain language.
Review and Consultation
Everything in Review, plusA call with our legal team to walk you through the report and answer your questions.
Review and Negotiation Support
Everything in Consultation, plusSuggested changes to the contract and help drafting your responses to the publisher.
Who we review for
- Authors offered a traditional deal
- Authors considering a hybrid publisher
- Authors signing with an agent
- Contributors to anthologies and collaborations
- Authors who want a second look at a signed contract
How your review works.
- Chapter 1
Send your contract
Upload your contract securely and tell us your deadline.
- Chapter 2
Legal review
Our legal team reads every clause that affects your rights and income.
- Chapter 3
Your report
You receive a plain-language report with red flags clearly marked.
- Chapter 4
Talk it through
If you choose a consultation, we walk you through every point.
- Chapter 5
Negotiation support
If you choose it, we help you ask for the changes you need.
What is included
- Review by our legal team
- A plain-language report on the clauses that matter
- Rights, term, royalties, reversion and termination checked
- Red flags clearly marked
- Suggested questions and changes
- Optional consultation call
- Optional redlines and help responding to the publisher
- Your contract kept strictly confidential
Investment
Your quote depends on your contract and the level of review.
You get a fixed quote after your consultation, with payment in agreed stages.
Request a quoteBefore you sign.
A publishing deal can feel like the finish line. The contract decides who owns your book, for how long, and what you earn from it. Our legal team reads every clause and tells you, in plain language, what to accept, what to question and what to push back on.
Send your contract7.2 Grant of Rights
The Author grants the Publisher the exclusive right to publish the Work in all formats now known or hereafter devised, throughout the world, for the full term of copyright and any renewals thereof.
Send us your contract
Upload your contract and choose the level of review. We will confirm your quote and turnaround before we begin. Prefer to talk first? Book a contract consultation.
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Should I get my publishing contract reviewed?
Yes. A publishing contract can affect your rights for decades. A review tells you what you are agreeing to before it becomes binding.
What do you look for?
Who owns which rights and for how long, royalties and payment terms, reversion and termination clauses, obligations on you, and anything unusual or one-sided.
How long does a review take?
We confirm a turnaround when you send your contract. Tell us your signing deadline and we will work to it wherever we can.
Do you review contracts from publishers outside Nigeria?
Yes. We review contracts from publishers in Nigeria and abroad, and we tell you if a point needs specialist advice in another country.
Will the publisher know you reviewed my contract?
Only if you want them to. With negotiation support, we help you respond to the publisher in your own name.
Is my contract kept confidential?
Yes. Your contract and everything you share with us stays strictly confidential.
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