Glossary of Publishing Terms-Part Three

by Laura Fabiani @ NouveauWriter

Here’s a continuation of the glossary of publishing terms useful to you as a writer:

CV: Curriculum vita. A complete listing of qualifications and career accomplishments.

ELECTRONIC RIGHTS: Secondary or subsidiary rights dealing with electronic/multimedia formats (i.e., publication on the Internet, CD-ROMs, file downloads, electronic magazines).

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: A submission made by email, through a Web form, or on computer disk.

EROTICA: Fiction or art that is sexually oriented.

EVALUATION FEES: Fees an agent may charge to evaluate material. The extent and quality of this evaluation varies, but comments usually concern the salability of the manuscript.

FAIR USE: A provision of the copyright law that says short passages from copyrighted material may be used without infringing on the owner’s rights.

FEATURE: An article giving the reader information of human interest rather than news.

FILLER: A short item used by an editor to “fill” out a newspaper column or magazine page. It could be a joke, an anecdote, etc.

FILM RIGHTS: Rights sold or optioned by the agent/author to a person in the film industry, enabling the book to be made into a movie.

FOREIGN RIGHTS: Translation or reprint rights to be sold abroad.

FRONTLIST: A publisher’s list of books that are new to the current season.

GALLEYS: The first fully designed (but usually unproofed) version of a book that has been divided into pages.

GENRE: Refers either to a general classification of writing, such as the novel or the poem, or to the categories within those classifications, such as the romance novel or the sonnet.

Source: Writer’s Digest Weekly Planner