Maine Illustrator and Author Agreement
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If you're the author and illustrator, you'll get to keep the full royalty rate, which would be similar to above: around 10% with possible benchmarks that will raise it to around 15%. If you're only the illustrator, the royalties will be split equally between you and the author.
Picture book illustrators often earn a higher advance than the author, but they generally earn the same royalty percentages. Rather than a lump sum, most advances for picture books are divided into halves or thirds and paid at specified stages of the two-to-four-year editing and production process.
Yes, but only if they want a specific outcome. and would rather have the words written by the author and then they'll match an illustrator they think will fit. Generally yes, most writers are not great illustrators. This does not mean an author cannot request and/or debate a choice.
So you'd quickly be found out and an author/illustrator who feels cheated by their publisher isn't a happy author. It's worth saying, of course, that, agents take a percentage (10% 15% of the author/illustrators earnings from publishers as a rough rule).
The short answer is the copyrights are yours! Unless one of three things happen: you work as an employee and illustration is part of your job. your illustration contract contains a work-for-hire clause.
Bestselling author Joanna Penn estimates that the average pay for a 32-page picture book is $3,000 $12,000, meaning a 32 page book with 20 illustrations equates anywhere from $150 to $600 per illustration. Publishing expert Anthony Puttee estimates a slightly lower standard rate of about $120 per illustration.
If you're only the illustrator, the royalties will be split equally between you and the author. So that would be around 5% with benchmarks that raise it to around 7.5% when you hit them.
The author's name can be found after the words by or written by. The illustrator's name can be found after the words art by or illustrated by. The author and the illustrator's names can be found on the front cover of the book. Sometimes the author and illustrator are the same person.
Illustrators. Authors and illustrators are creative. In their own ways, they are both involved in telling stories to an audience.
