Old-ish news, but I feel it's still worth posting about: Random House recently released the news that they will be including a new clause in contracts with children's authors. The clause states that if an author acts in a way which damages his or her reputation as someone suitable to be associated with children, the publisher has the right to renegotiate and advance, delay publication of the book, or break the contract altogether.
I find this information rather frightening, personally. Most children don't even think to associate a face with what they read - they rarely consider the possibility that a real person is behind it. And also, these authors do not owe anybody anything. So long as they have provided an entertaining and somewhat educational book for their readers, whose business is it how they spend their leisure time? (So long as their extracurricular activities are legal, that is).
Thoughts?
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