Writing a book is a joyous experience, especially when it is for a younger audience. Between crafting an engaging story and characters, refining eye-catching illustrations, and making sure everything is just as you want, your book becomes a piece of you that you can share with the world. But what happens to the rights of your book after you publish with a publisher? With Cloverly Children’s, you always keep your intellectual rights to every part of your book forever with no strings attached.
The publishing process, especially for books geared towards a younger audience, takes a lot of work. Specifically, when you work with Cloverly Children’s, that includes creating hand-crafted illustrations for picture books, designing a cover, laying out all the pages, and every little detail across the entire book. No artificial intelligence will ever be used in designing or preparing your book for publication; all illustrations will be created by humans. As such, everything that you create or that is created on your behalf will permanently remain your intellectual property after publication.
We make sure your rights are protected from the moment you sign a publishing contract with Cloverly Children’s. Instead of pages and pages of fine-print text legalese, our publishing agreements are about three pages long and clearly state all terms in plain English. These terms are easy to understand and are designed to protect you in every step of the process, ensuring that all rights to your book stay yours, from the text of the manuscript to each and every illustration made on your behalf.
When sharing a book for children, there is extra care taken to ensure creative integrity. Rest assured, your final product will be entirely yours, and you maintain complete creative control from start to finish. No changes will be made to your manuscript and no illustrations will be finalized without your approval. We want you to be proud of the book you publish, and to do that, you have to have final say at every step. Further, our contract grants you proceeds from all sales of your book for two years after publication, and then you keep all proceeds after that until you recoup your initial investment.
Publishing a book takes a long time, and it is not easy. Cloverly Children’s is here for you from when you submit your manuscript for approval to after your book is published. That being said, you will own the rights to your book forever. When you share your book with friends, family, your community, or anybody else, you can be sure that the rights to the book completely and totally belong to you.
