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Question on WN contract
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Primate You have no clue what you are talking about. I just contacted an editor, they don't offer Fixed Rate contracts, only Royalty contracts. Moreover, I explained to you the difference, and the editor confirmed that too. With fix rate contract, you are creating the content for webnovel, and get paid by creation. Royalty contract is what I told you. You get monthly royalties as long as its over $200, and you will get them pretty much until the copyright expires (pretty much your lifetime). As long as your book makes money, you will get royalties. That is the difference between those two contracts. So don't tell me I have a FRC, when I have royalty contract on my hands. And they don't supply FRCs, that is what an editor said.
In both cases you grant them copyright. You have to grant them copyright, because otherwise you'd be able to fuck them in their assess, and they wouldn't be able to do anything about it. There are different copyrights rights (or licenses) you can grant. You obviously don't know that, otherwise you wouldn't write such nonsense. I urge you to go and seek legal advice before you sign anything, so that later you don't cry. To the rest, don't listen to this guy. Ask an editor if in doubt, not some user who talks rubbish.
DarkRay An editor? From your words, sounds more like you might be talking to Bryce or Sunnyy. Quite funny, been on this road before. Anyway, you do you and good luck as a writer. We are all here, as writers, to make the most of the works we love to write but at the end of the day, it rests on each writer to make his/her own path.
Please, don't mind my words.
I can only say, 'Whatever'.
Nonetheless, good luck to all authors.
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Well, since most authors are offered a contract where they earn a percentage of the "sales" of their chapters, it doesn't seem like FIXED-rate. Is there someone out there that was offered a price for each chapter, paid upfront, no matter if readers will read/pay the chapters or not?
Primate How about you actually address those things, instead of retreating? If it's funny, by all means prove it. Show me at least a piece of that contract, you speak of. Even better, I will give you my discord. Provide your evidence there, and I can show you 21 pages of a royalty contract as well. Because I can actually read with understanding. But, you are free to hide, it's your choice. Here is my discord: DarkRay#7085
It is true that there have been never a contractor with the fixed-rate deal.Original authors right now only saw the royalty-contract ,
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Is there anyone who has recently signed a contract? I don't understand what is the issue but my contract is getting rejected because of handwritten signature. I have signed in the format as given by them but they have sent it two times back saying it as wrong 
God knows how many times I have written my plot outline >.>
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL
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Did you ask your editor? You must sign by hand and add you name,full name,middle name beside exactly like on your ID by hand too.
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enthu_reader I noticed this from an editor's comments on completion of contract.
1) Fill in your details under Inkstone > Contracts tab
2) Print out the contract with your typed details
3) Handwritten signatures are a must. You must also write your full name beside every signature, and it must follow your ID exactly. It is now case sensitive.
4) Scan the signed copies, and upload it back up to Inkstone along with your ID
That would be a scan copy of your ID.
Only government-issued IDs with your picture are accepted.
How your name appears on the ID card must be the same way written on the form.
Eg. If the ID card shows the name format as MAIN Character. That's how you'd write it on every page next to where you need to sign.
Otherwise the system or editors (not sure which) will reject and return errors from what I've heard around.
enthu_reader how long did it take for you to get a response I have sighned my contract two weeks ago and it still says somone will check it soon?
JKSManga I guess in three to four days.
Veronica8
I see. Is the sign supposed to be different? Coz one fellow author was also facing this same issue and her editor told that our usual sign don't work. We have to make up a sign that includes our full name in it. Usually our sign is small with only initials and surname, but in contract signature they need the full sign as in full name in signature too.
I dropped her a dm on discord but my editor was offline for the whole day 
Veronica8 I will add one thing there. Contracted writers don't always have to inform their editors about everything regarding the plot changes. Not even for the cover. You can if your editor asks for it or if you want to give them simple updates. Otherwise it's not necessary.
However, if you have queries on a plot which may breach the contract (eg underage smut) then you must ask your editor first.
I don't think the contract ever sends until the story is done, and then they can ask you if they want to pick up your other story. I don't think they ever lose copyright of the book, and as of right now I haven't seen them sell the books on amazon or in any other place.
enthu_reader How did you know who your editor is?
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enthu_reader You've commented this a lot, but I think it's best to check the Inkstone discord server. Nano, one of the mods, posted a good explanation on the pinned messages of the "General chat" channel :) The editors are also really busy, which might explain why they're offline. Since we can't really see your signature (I'd advise to not post it on such a public forum), it's better to ask these questions to the editor you originally contacted. They'll be able to see the signature and inform you of the mistakes.
JKSManga You'll get assigned a content editor when you're contracted. But if you're not, then you can approach any of them. I think Hao and Bryce mainly deal with male-lead novels?
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