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Expensive Author Mistakes to Avoid - Problems with Co-Authors

26 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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Julie Broad warns authors about common, costly mistakes when co-authoring a book. She emphasizes agreeing on all project details up front — shared vision, handling differing voices, dispute resolution, marketing responsibilities, expense and royalty splits — because co-authors remain tied to a book for its lifetime and disentangling partnerships later is costly and time-consuming.

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Number one, writing a book with a co author but not agreeing to all the details in advance. I've got a great video on co authors for you that I'll share at the end, but ultimately, when you include other people in your writing project, you really want to make sure you have a shared vision for this project. You've figured out how to handle different voices on the project. You have talked about how you'll settle disagreements about different things like even choosing the COVID You know who will be doing what when it comes to marketing, and you know how you're going to split up expenses and handle royalties. There are a lot of details that make a partnership work or not work, and when you co author a book with someone, you're tied to them for the life of that book. We've seen more co author situations not work than we have seen work. And peeling out a partner from a project is expensive and time consuming. So set expectations before and save yourself a lot of time, money and energy later.