This agreement is made between you, hereinafter referred to as the Author, and La Bruja LLC, hereinafter referred to as the Publisher. The parties agree as follows:
Author’s Grant.
1(a). The Author grants permission to include his/her/their story/essay/poem/art, hereinafter referred to as the Work, in an anthology titled (War In The Belly of The Beast), hereafter referred to as the Anthology, to be published in print and eBook (PDF and ePub) formats.
1(b). The Author grants the Publisher the right to use the Author’s chosen publication name for advertising, promoting, or otherwise publicizing the Work and the Anthology. The Author may be asked to provide an image or likeness as well; the right to deny this request is retained by the Author. The Publisher shall only use personal information expressly provided and approved by the Author. If the Author is publishing under a fictitious name or any name other than his/her/their legal name, the Publisher agrees to keep Author’s legal name and personal info strictly confidential.
Payments.
2(a). Author will receive one complimentary copy of the Anthology from the Publisher upon publication and upon request. This recompense represents the Author’s full payment. In further consideration, Author may purchase additional copies of the Publication at a 50% discount.
2(b). The Author shall receive a complimentary copy of the eBook editions of the Anthology.
Authors’ Warranties and Indemnities.
3(a). The Author represents and warrants that he/she/they is the sole Author of the Work, and that no one has previously reserved the rights granted in this agreement. The Author also represents that, to the best of his/her/their knowledge, the Work does not contain any libelous material, is not in violation of any rights of privacy or any other rights of third persons, does not violate any existing common law or statutory copyrights, was not generated in part or in full by a Learned Language Model (so-called “AI”), and has not been published before in any form, whether paid or unpaid, in print, electronic, or other formats not specifically enumerated here.
3(b). The Author agrees to hold the Publisher harmless against any judgement finally sustained that the Work contains libel, plagiarism and/or invasion of privacy.
Copyright.
4(a). The Author retains ownership of the Work.
4(b). The Anthology will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Publisher agrees to list a proper copyright notice for the Work in the name of the Author or their approved pseudonym in the front matter of the Anthology.
4(c). The Publisher will make no changes to the Work’s text without the express written approval (in e-mail or print) of the Author. Prior to publication, the Publisher’s proposed version will be given to the Author for approval. The Publisher reserves the right to make minor copy-editing and formatting changes to ensure that the Work conforms to the Anthology’s standard forms and usages.
4(d) This agreement is non-exclusive, meaning Author may publish/share Work elsewhere.