AG Educational Events
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
2:00 pm Eastern
Online
Many authors earn lucrative income from writing for IP (intellectual property). This includes recognizable media franchises that spawn books and movies, as well as concepts that are generated in-house by publishers or book packagers. Agent Shelly Romero of Azantian Literary Agency will demystify how IP projects get off the ground and what authors should know if they are interested in getting into this line of work.
Romero will provide insights on how IP projects get conceptualized, what the auditioning process for IP writing is like, and how the deals and financials may differ from original works. We will also discuss who might benefit from IP work, how to find IP projects and similar work-for-hire opportunities, and whether an agent is necessary to secure these gigs.
Special thanks to Literary Agents of Change for collaborating with the Authors Guild Foundation on this series.
A Q&A will follow the presentation; you can pre-submit a question when registering for the event. A recording will be made available for those who cannot attend live.
The event will take place via Zoom with automatic closed captioning. To request any other accessibility features, please email support@authorsguild.org and we will make every effort to accommodate.
Shelly Romero of Azantian Literary Agency began her publishing career in 2017 at Scholastic where she rose up the ranks from editorial assistant to associate editor, where she acquired her own titles and assisted on series publishing for The Bad Guys and Goosebumps. She later joined Cake Creative as Lead Editor and she was most recently a freelance editor. She graduated from Stephens College with a bachelor’s degree in English and attended the 2017 NYU Summer Publishing Institute. Shelly was selected as a 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree and is a member of Latinx in Publishing & People of Color in Publishing. Born and raised in Miami by Honduran parents, she now resides in New York City where she might be found at a movie theatre viewing the latest release from her Letterboxd watchlist.
