Literary Agency and Representation Agreement

Draw up an exclusive contract between an author of written work and an agent with this template Literary Agency and Representation Agreement.

The Agreement can be used for specific works, or can be ongoing to cover existing and future work by the author.
The agent is retained on an exclusive basis to represent and negotiate the sale and licensing of the author’s work.
The contract contains provisions for either a single flat-rate commission, or for multi-scale commissions based on domestic, foreign and subsidiary sales (TV, film, etc.).
The agent has the right to engage co-agents, and is responsible for paying the co-agents from the agent’s commission.
The author has the right to audit the agent’s accounting records once in each year, at the author’s sole expense, unless a shortfall of 5% or more is uncovered by the audit, in which case the agent pays for the audit.

This Literary Agency and Representation Agreement template is a downloadable and fully editable MS Word document.