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When I get to he part of where I explain how to write a query or book proposal I know that someone in the room will raise a hand to ask this heartfelt question: "How do I know they won't steal my idea?"And why not ask it? After all, the writer asking the question had the idea in the first place, polished it up and refined it, and is now ready to try to get it published. The last thing she wants is a rejection slip, followed by a similar article over someone else's byline a few months later.The short answer is no, it is not likely that they will. However, there are still some important things you need to know to protect yourself and your intellectual property from whatever crooks there may be out thereSome of these questioners seem almost paralyzed be the fear of losing the products of their minds and hearts to unscrupulous individuals who might, in some way, gain access to them at some point during the publication process, mainly while they are shopping an idea around.

Such writers find themselves in a kind of Catch-22: they can't get published without sending their ideas out for consideration; but if they send them out they think they may risk losing them. So what's the dope? Do ideas get stolen in the writing trade? Seldom? Often? If so, how can you protect yourself from this literary thievery? I have been a magazine editor and freelance writer for more than 35 years. During that time, I have had no personal experience with purloined ideas, none of my friends in the business has ever complained to me of purloined ideas, and no writer submitting queries to my magazines has ever complained that his or her idea was stolen.Moreover, what choice do you have? If you're a farmer, you've got to sow your seed, even though the birds may peck up one or two of them here or there. Keep the seed in the barn and you do indeed protect them from the vagaries of the natural world, but you also prevent them from germinating and bearing fruit.

If you want to be a writer, you've got to send your ideas out , or they just rot in your mind like the fearful farmer's unsown seed rot in the barn. Still, I imagine the writing trade has as many dishonest persons per capita as exist in any other profession, so maybe I was just lucky. At any rate, my assertion that I never experienced this kind of editorial malfeasance is no guarantee that it is not going on.Writers enjoy much more protection from present-day copyright laws than they ever enjoyed before. Until the late 19th century no one's books, let alone ideas, were secure. Unauthorized editions of popular works could be and were published around the world, with no benefits at all going to the author. As long as the writing business consisted wholly of print publications, the problem was pretty much solved. But now with the vast, still untamed, territories of electronic publishing before us it is a very unwise writer who does not learn what the real dangers are and how to protect himself against them.

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