Under the oversight of Kirsten Wolf, Esq., an entertainment lawyer with close to two decades’ experience in the world of book publishing, Wolf Literary Services provides a range of consulting services for literary, film, and music agencies, publishers, media companies, and independent writers and artists, both in the U.S. and abroad, on all aspects of the publishing industry, including legal issues (specifically but not exclusively focused on contract negotiation), bookkeeping and related financial management, and general administrative Q&A.

We bring together small-business management knowhow and legal expertise in publishing: a combination that makes us uniquely suited to understand and prioritize your company’s needs.

Our consulting division works with an ever-growing list of literary agencies and media companies, including Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency, Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc., Aragi Inc., Rubin Pfeffer Content, The Clegg Agency, Inc., Azantian Literary Agency, Emerald City Literary Agency, Gillian MacKenzie Agency, and many more. We tailor solutions to fit our individual clients’ particular goals, whether that be full-scope legal services or a bi-annual check-in to review bookkeeping before tax season. It is our goal to make the complex (and often time-consuming!) tasks simplified and streamlined for our clients—so they can focus on the creative and strategic elements of their business.

As well as our industry clients, we offer individual consulting, including contract and deal advisory services, and contract negotiations, to individual writers on a selective basis. Please be in touch at the email below to see if we might be a fit for your needs.

Legal and contract services for businesses include:

Complete review and negotiation of an agreement, including review and drafting/redlining and full negotiation with a third party until the agreement is finalized.

Review and negotiation of publisher boilerplate agreements, drawing on WLS’s intimate (yet expansive) knowledge of the industry standards, trends, and limitations—and how a book contract must evolve in publishing’s constantly changing legal landscape.

Contract review, from “quick reads” to full, detailed reviews in either redline or memo form, giving you the tools you need to handle your own negotiation.

Drafting of an agreement from the “ground up,” creating an agreement for a specific project and/or creating a boilerplate contract you can tailor for future projects.

Advice on general copyright and other intellectual property matters.

Agreements we handle for individuals, on a flat fee basis include:

Book publishing agreements (including large presses, small presses, and university presses).

Ancillary rights agreements (including audio, electronic, permission forms, book club, dramatic/stage, and foreign rights).

Film/television option/purchase agreements

Collaborator, co-writer, and contributor agreements.

Confidentiality agreements.

Agency and agent agreements.

For more information, or to request a quote, please contact info@wolflit.com.

Please note, Wolf Literary Services’ consulting arm operates separately to the literary agency, and agency authors are not charged fees for legal services. Such services are provided as part of our commission arrangement.