Summary of M. L. Buchman's Estate Planning For Authors

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Intellectual property is all the stuff the author created: books, stories, notes, audio, film, and potentially more. This book is first an education for the author himself, and then it is about the method he has found to communicate this information to his heirs. #2 The Elvis Presley estate is worth over $400 million dollars as of 2017, and he is still a household name forty years after his death. However, if you leave your estate in a mess, will there be a Priscilla to clean it up. Or will your literary legacy die shortly after you do because the tangled disaster was too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. #3 The Will, which controls who gets what, is the responsibility of attorneys and not covered in this book. If you have intellectual property, an IP estate tax plan should be prepared by a competent lawyer specializing in intellectual property. #4 The author, Allen Drury, wrote the 1960 New York Times #1 Best Seller of the Year. It was also the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. However, Drury was sick of New York publishing practices and left instructions in his will for the executors to dismantle his literary estate upon his death.