Hi, I am an illustrator not an writer. I am licensing my illustrations to a self published author that I work with. Does anyone have experience of contracts as I have a question about the 'duration' of the license. Thanks.
Hi, I am an illustrator not an writer. I am licensing my illustrations to a self published author that I work with. Does anyone have experience of contracts as I have a question about the 'duration' of the license. Thanks.
Are you on good terms with the writer? I admit that I have no experience with your particular situation, but - since nobody else has answered - I'll throw a few thoughts into the ring:
Most large publishers buy ALL the rights to a book (film rights, foreign translation rights, etc.) and then sell them to others (film producers, foreign publishers, etc.) giving the writer/illustrator a cut of those later deals. So if your writer were to sell the book - ready-illustrated - to a publisher, I assume that they would insist on the same deal with you, the illustrator.
Since your writer is self-publishing, I suppose that you've got to hammer out this deal between the 2 of you.
You don't specify what kind and degree of illustrating is involved. If it's a picture book for children of +/- 3-6, with 2 sentences to every full-colour page of illustrating, you should be getting 50% of the royalties, at least. If you're providing very simple b/w line drawings at a rate of one every 20 pages or so of a novel, the deal would be completely different. A jacket cover and one frontispiece... once again: different.
IN THE MEANTIME... Have a look at http://la-granota.com/stranger.htm and http://la-granota.com/tadpoles.htm (heh heh heh!) Not a penny in it for you, but you'd be rubbing shoulders with a great team... and for 3 good causes.
p.s. I'm glad to see some illustrators not writers taking part in this forum! It's usually too lop-sided. The website is, after all, https://www.writersandARTISTS.co.uk/