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| There are many independent editors out there. Most of them are legitimate. A few of them are not. At the Iowa Wordwrights, we’re all writers. We’ve personally experienced the anxiety that accompanies sending your work out to strangers. We’d like to spare you that experience; we don’t think you should have to worry about whose hands your intellectual property ends up in. So we’ve developed the following privacy policy which governs all of our client engagements: |
| | (1) | All manuscripts submitted to the Iowa Wordwrights (hereafter, “we,” “us,” or “company”) as part of a client engagement or a prospective client engagement will be considered the property of the author. The Iowa Wordwrights acknowledge that the client (hereafter, “you”) retains all rights and title to such materials. |
| | (2) | All client engagements will be governed by a written agreement between you and us. Submitted materials will be utilized by our staff for the sole purpose of fulfilling our obligations to you pursuant to that agreement. |
| | (3) | Manuscripts, whether received by us in hard-copy or electronic format, may be copied solely for use by our staff. Such materials will not be distributed to any third parties (including agents and publishers registered with us) without your express written permission. |
| | (4) | All editors employed by us are required to execute an employment agreement which includes a confidentiality clause relating to the handling of clients' intellectual property. The company will not provide client materials to any editor unless that editor has executed such an agreement. |
| | (5) | Not later than six months after completion of services, we will dispose of all hard-copy manuscripts and delete all electronically-submitted manuscripts from our computers. We reserve the right to maintain an archive of all analyses and related materials prepared by us—which may include brief excerpts from your manuscript—for recordkeeping purposes. |
| | (6) | For purposes of this privacy policy, any consents or instructions from you which are required to be in writing may be submitted in hard-copy, fax or e-mail format except for the client agreement itself, which must be executed in hard-copy or fax format. |
| Finally, the Iowa Wordwrights will never sell, rent or trade any of our clients’ personal contact information. Our business lives or dies by its reputation; we’re not going to put that at risk because some clown who wants to invite you to a backroom “writers conference” run by a no-name author who published a poorly-received disco novel in 1977 and hasn’t been heard from since is willing to pay us a few lousy shekels for your e-mail address. |
| Further information is available by emailing our office or calling us at (319) 594-2255. |
|  All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand—are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced those moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It’s a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments. Such is the horror of having to face the typewriter that you will spend all your time waiting. I am persuaded that most writers, like most shoemakers, are about as good one day as the next (a point which Trollope made).
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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