---
title: "Pitfalls to avoid in an authors publishing contract"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/13/pitfalls-to-avoid-in-an-authors-publishing-contract.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/4/13/pitfalls-to-avoid-in-an-authors-publishing-contract.html"
published: "2005-04-13T17:18:00"
updated: "2005-04-13T17:18:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is an interesting article found on one of the newsgroups: \" What pitfalls do I need to avoid in an authors publishing contract? \""
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Pitfalls to avoid in an authors publishing contract

By Roy Osherove April 13, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 13, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

This is an interesting article found on one of the newsgroups:

"[What pitfalls do I need to avoid in an authors publishing contract?](http://www.askdavetaylor.com/what_pitfalls_do_i_need_to_avoid_in_an_authors_publishing_contract.html)"

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
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