Articles on defamation and libel for authors: the legal risk of writing false damaging statements about real people.
Contracts and AgreementsMemoir, business book, or exposé, if your manuscript touches your time at a former employer, you have to reckon with NDAs, non-disparagement clauses, trade secrets, and defamation. Here is what your old NDA actually restricts, what non-disparagement really prevents, what…
DefamationWriting about family is the most legally and personally fraught part of a memoir, and the worry stalls more projects than anything else. The legal exposure is real but narrower than most authors fear, and the relational side has techniques…
DefamationA revenge memoir is a bad idea for the writer and a worse one for the ghostwriter. I once turned down a former mob informant who wanted to name names and settle scores, then promised to keep my role secret,…
Book ProposalA professional ghostwriter can turn your expertise into a finished manuscript with your name on the cover, but finding the right one takes effort. Here are 14 questions to ask during your consultation, and what the answers tell you.
DefamationThe hardest part of a memoir is never the prose; it is the people, the parent, the ex, the business partner whose presence the story needs and whose inclusion creates a problem no amount of craft can fully solve. All…
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