Real talk: I didn’t start my career with the intention of working in contract management. And yet, here I am. I was an assistant at a literary agency when I first learned how to read a publishing contract. Part of my job was vetting signing copies when they came in from the publisher. I would pull out the draft negotiations, lay them alongside the signing copies, and then go through line by line to make sure that everything the agent negotiated was present (or in some cases deleted) in the final copy—flagging any inconsistencies. When I started working specifically on subrights and foreign rights I spent even more time on contracts, and when I made the switch from literary agencies to publishing houses I started working in contracts full time.
A Day in the Life of a Contracts Manager
A Day in the Life of a Contracts Manager
A Day in the Life of a Contracts Manager
Real talk: I didn’t start my career with the intention of working in contract management. And yet, here I am. I was an assistant at a literary agency when I first learned how to read a publishing contract. Part of my job was vetting signing copies when they came in from the publisher. I would pull out the draft negotiations, lay them alongside the signing copies, and then go through line by line to make sure that everything the agent negotiated was present (or in some cases deleted) in the final copy—flagging any inconsistencies. When I started working specifically on subrights and foreign rights I spent even more time on contracts, and when I made the switch from literary agencies to publishing houses I started working in contracts full time.