Kris Rusch on Non-Compete Clauses

[angelabenedetti]

Anyone who's ever considered tradpubbing a book really needs to read Kris's Business post this week on non-compete clauses.

Some choice quotes:

If you sign any version of a non-compete clause, you will never be a full-time professional writer. Writing will not be your career. Something else will, and you will write on the side for the rest of

Comments

[marasmine]

Trad publishing just gets worse and worse. It's a wonder they have any up-and-coming authors - I'm assuming the big names have avoided all these little contract traps or maybe not.

[angelabenedetti]

My understanding is that the household-name bestsellers have very different contracts than the little writers (or even writers who've hit the bestseller lists, but not consistently single-digits on said lists) and so they might well not have non-competes. OTOH, someone who's making millions per year anyway might not CARE about the restrictions on a non-compete clause. :P

Angie