Is a publishing professional going to steal your book?

There are plenty of things to stress over along the path to getting published, but theft of your story isn’t a likely one.

One of the quickest ways to make an editor, agent, or publisher not want to work with you is to send them an NDA before you’ll discuss the project.

Please, writers, skip the copyright notices and nondisclosure agreements before we’ve read a word. We need to see the writing and the nuts and bolts of the story before we can tell whether your work could be …