Rights & Permissions

Mic Press authors retain the copyright in their work. Under our publishing agreements, Mic Press holds and administers certain publication and subsidiary rights on the author’s behalf — including the rights described below. Enquiries should come to us first; we coordinate with our authors and respond on a considered, deal-by-deal basis.

All requests and proposals are reviewed by our rights desk and answered in the order received. For any matter on this page, write to rights@micpress.com.

We actively seek the right partners to bring our titles into other languages and territories. Publishers, agents, and scouts interested in translation or foreign-language rights to AI-Born or other Mic Press works are warmly invited to enquire.

When you write, please include the territory and language you have in mind, the format you intend to publish (hardcover, paperback, e-book, audio), your house and recent comparable titles, and your proposed terms — advance, royalty, and the term of license. We are glad to provide reading copies, finished files, and marketing materials to serious prospective partners.

Beyond translation, we license a range of subsidiary rights: serial rights (first and second), anthology and quotation rights, audio and dramatization rights, large-print and accessible editions, and rights for film, television, and other adaptations. We also consider enterprise and custom editions, in which an organization licenses a title for branded internal distribution.

Tell us what you are looking for and the use you envisage, and we will tell you what is available and on what terms. We are deliberate about where our authors’ work appears, and we favor partners who will treat it with the same care we do.

You may quote briefly from a Mic Press book or essay — generally up to a few hundred words of prose — for the purposes of review, criticism, scholarship, commentary, or news reporting, without seeking permission, provided the use is fair, the extract is not altered in meaning, and you credit both the author and Mic Press. Where you can, please cite the title, author, and year.

Permission is required for any use beyond that: reproducing substantial extracts; reprinting a complete essay, chapter, or poem; using our material in a course pack, anthology, textbook, or commercial product; or any use that would substitute for the original. Epigraphs and pull-quotes used commercially also require permission. When in doubt, ask — we are not difficult to deal with.

To request permission to reuse Mic Press material, write to rights@micpress.com and include: the title and author of the work, the exact passage or material you wish to use (with page references where possible), the publication or product it will appear in, the format and expected print run or audience, the territory and languages, and whether the use is commercial. The more complete your request, the faster we can answer it.

We try to respond to permission requests within ten business days. Some uses are granted free of charge, particularly non-commercial and scholarly ones; others carry a fee, which we will quote before any license is issued. A permission is granted only once confirmed by us in writing.

Journalists, critics, booksellers, and event organizers may request review copies and press materials. Please write to press@micpress.com with your outlet or venue and the nature of your coverage, and route formal rights and licensing enquiries to rights@micpress.com.

For all rights, permissions, and licensing matters, write to rights@micpress.com, or to the Rights Desk, Mic Press, LLC, New York, New York. We look forward to finding our books new readers, in new forms.