Submit Online Contractual Agreement

You MUST understand your contract in order to keep control of your book!

Educate yourself and feel free to ask questions regarding our contract and services. We are transparent and are willing to answer any questions you may have before getting started, during the process, and after publishing. You will meet with a Publisher Assistant or PA before completing your contract, and you may ask your questions during the free 10 minute consultation.

1. What rights do Griot Publishing House want to acquire?

This should be your first question. Your publishing contract must list the rights your publisher is acquiring specifically, and there must be a statement in the contract that all other rights not mentioned in this contract are held by the author. If you do not see this statement there, ask us to point it out to you.

2. What rights do Griot Publishing House want to keep?

We do not own your story PERIOD! All we want is the right to use your publication on our Web Property and company-based advertisement for one year. After that, you may request to remove your book and likeness from our database altogether. We will take good care in promoting the right image of your book.

3. When and how can I end the publishing agreement?

4. Do I have the ability to terminate the contractual agreement?

Things happen that may cause you to terminate your project. You may cancel your contractual agreement at any time, but please note that there is a cancellation fee required to cancel the publishing contract.

5. Is the ownership of characters and world compromised in any way?

Any content that you submit for manuscript inclusion is your intellectual property. We will not stop you from using your characters and world in other stories or books, even after you have left our Publishing House. Once the publishing agreement is ended, all characters are your property, they are not owned in any way by the Griot Publishing House.

6. Am I required to submit subsequent books to GPH?

Of course not! If you decide that you no longer want or need for Griot Publishing House to publish the remaining books in your series, there is no red tape in doing so. The only issue you may have is the GPH identifiers that are located in the published book. It is highly recommended that you do your research until you are comfortable with the chosen publisher to complete the series.

8. What is the royalty on the book?

If you are playing on enrolling your published book in our Consignment program, your royalty payment depends on the retail and/or cost of your book. Just for the record, we will never expect more royalties from your book sales than you expect. It is your work and you should always receive the highest book sales.

9. Are there any charges or money withheld from your Book Royalties?

Remember that if we withhold a percentage for ‘returns’, that is subtracted from the percentage that you get for each sale.

11. Do your rights revert to you if our company declares bankruptcy?

Your publishing contract states that all rights revert back to you, but since you own your own rights, this would not really apply.