Amy Cook focuses her legal representation on issues affecting writers and small publishers. Most clients are authors who have found publishers on their own and need an attorney to review their contract, and authors working with another party (co-author, illustrator, freelance editor). She also represents small publishers and Webzines.
Cook is experienced with:
- Book publishing contracts
- Magazine/newspaper publishing contracts
- Author-Agent agreements
- Author-Freelance Editor agreements
- Author-Illustrator/Graphic designer agreements
- Freelance Writers/Independent Contractor agreements
- Joint Author agreements
- Ghost Writer agreements
- Work for Hire agreements
- Permissions agreements (to use others’ copyrighted work)
- Concept non-disclosure agreements
- FOIA issues
- Consultation on copyright
- Consultation on defamation/invasion of privacy issues
Cook has negotiated contracts with publishers including:
- Stewart Tabori & Chang
- William Morrow
- Warner
- Dearborn
- John Wiley and Sons
- Sourcebooks
- Avalon
- HarperCollins
- Perigee
- Greystone Press
- Andrews McMeel
- Ten Speed
- McGraw Hill
- Houghton Mifflin
- Albert Whitman
- Prager
- Nomad Press
- Soft Skull Press
- Tribune Company
- Cooking Light magazine
- Fine Cooking magazine
- Writer’s Digest magazine
