Check your manuscript's risk.

Twelve questions about the people, contracts, and quotes in your book. Score 2 or more and the manuscript needs a legal read.

  1. Does your book name living people?
  2. Does it describe anyone's crimes, affairs, health, or finances?
  3. Does it discuss a former employer or business partner?
  4. Did you sign a settlement, NDA, or separation agreement in the last 20 years?
  5. Do you quote song lyrics or reprint anyone's letters, emails, or photos?
  6. Did you change names or details to disguise a real person who might still be recognizable?
  7. Is anyone in the book a person you have been in a lawsuit, dispute, or bitter falling-out with?
  8. Does the book tell client stories or case studies from your business?
  9. Does the book make results, income, or outcome claims?
  10. Do you work in a regulated industry, or does the book give professional advice?
  11. Are you publishing through a hybrid publisher or self-publishing?
  12. Does the book reveal private facts about someone that are not publicly known?

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