Crash Course: Rights and Contracts for Authors with Szilvia Molnar

What rights do I have and how can I fully exploit them to maintain control as a writer?

A one-hour online class that will take you through the main and subsidiary rights that you hold as an author in order to obtain more opportunities and streams of revenue. For agented or unagented authors, at any stage in their careers, who are looking to understand how to fully exploit their rights when entering a publishing agreement.

Szilvia Molnar is the Foreign Rights Director at Sterling Lord Literistic, a New York-based literary agency. She also represents the Angolan-Danish writer and artist Aaiún Nin (Broken Halves of a Milky Sun, Astra Books, 2022), the award-winning Arabic writer and poet Iman Mersal (Traces of Enayat, Transit Books, 2023), and the Kathy Acker Estate. She graduated from University College London with First Class Honors, studying Hungarian and Comparative Literature, and began her publishing career at ICM Books London as the assistant to the Foreign Rights Director. In 2023, her debut novel, The Nursery, was published by Pantheon Books. It was a New York Times Notable Book and has been published in nine countries.

Originally from Budapest, Hungary but raised in Sweden, Szilvia is based in Austin, TX.

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