We’re delighted to announce a new partnership between The Hot Sheet and the Authors Guild. The partnership provides Hot Sheet subscribers with a discount on Guild membership; Guild members receive a discount on Hot Sheet subscriptions.
We see this partnership as an opportunity to introduce to you the advocacy and services the Guild offers both trade and independent authors at all career stages—professional, emerging, and student—as well as at-large industry members. The evolution of the Guild’s mission of author support and development reflects our own concern and regard for authors. With its new regional chapters and online seminars, the Guild is also making good on a plan to widen its reach beyond the New York industry hub.
We can chart the renewal of this 106-year-old organization to 2015, when Mary Rasenberger, a longtime copyright and media attorney, arrived as executive director. She has worked with consecutive presidents Roxana Robinson (former) and James Gleick (current) to steadily expand the Guild’s services. The Guild has achieved successes such as its Fair Contract Initiative and getting authors paid after years of copyright infringement by a science-fiction magazine.
With over 10,000 members, the Guild is the leading advocacy organization for authors in the United States—handling contract reviews, rights reversion, copyright cases, permissions and privacy release queries, and many more issues. The Guild’s legal team got the initial injunction in June in New York against the effort to trademark the word cocky, a case we’d been following since May.
Here is how the discounts will work:
- Current subscribers to The Hot Sheet can join the Guild at a special discount of 35 percent off (for about $81.25 annually at the professional level). Use promotional code HOTSHEET35 when joining.
- If you’re an existing subscriber to The Hot Sheet and become a Guild member, you can obtain a code from the Guild to renew your Hot Sheet subscription for $45 per year. (There’s an extra special rate for those who are new to both the Guild and The Hot Sheet; again, a code is available after you become a Guild member.)
These are the deepest available discounts for both the Guild and Hot Sheet. For more on the rationale behind our partnership, see our interview with the Guild.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
