Fair Split: 5 Steps to Build Royalties & Rights Agreements That Scale Your Author Business

Struggling to negotiate fair splits with co-authors, ghostwriters, or contributors? In this focused 8-minute monologue Dan Desmarques lays out five actionable steps to create royalties and rights agreements that protect income and speed publication. You’ll get concrete definitions for rights vs. royalties, three split structures (flat fee, hybrid, tiered royalties) with use-cases, a simple payment cadence and bookkeeping approach, metadata and crediting rules that protect discoverability, and exit/transfer clauses that prevent future disputes. Includes a short case study of a 3-book collaboration where a hybrid split saved a launch and increased per-book revenue, plus an immediate one-page checklist authors can use to draft their first agreement today. No legalese—just practical tactics authors actually use to scale a catalog without friction. End with a custom CTA to grab a royalty-split template and a publishing consultation from 22 Lions.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-22-lions-podcast-ai-self-publishing-book-empire-secrets--7016918/support.