Hello friends. I'm asking you please guide me. When a book is still unpublished, and a literary agent wants to send us three chapters and a summary of the story, how can I trust my story to be published by someone else? I speak of a plagiarism.
Hello friends. I'm asking you please guide me. When a book is still unpublished, and a literary agent wants to send us three chapters and a summary of the story, how can I trust my story to be published by someone else? I speak of a plagiarism.
This is something I would have liked to have known, glad I came across this question and answer, thanks for clearing that up for me. I am in the process of looking for an agent myself.
The chances of someone stealing your story are pretty slim, I'd have thought. Any reputable agent wouldn't let that happen - his or her good name would be dragged through the mud at the mere suggestion they were party to anything like this - and since the object of most plagiarism is to make money it's unlikely any piece of writing without some form of track record would be stolen.
I don't think you've much to worry about.