Many people each year are afraid to send me a description of their proposed books because they think that the ideas might be stolen. Without formal registration, your work is copyright-protected according to U.S. copyright law from the moment you set an idea onto paper or any electronic medium. This may be verified at the following web page of the U.S. Copyright Office: When Is My Work Protected?
Literary agents and editors at publishing houses will not respond to any query they receive if you ask them to sign non-disclosure agreements or ask them if it is safe to describe your idea. Such queries get deleted from the inbox or thrown in the trash immediately. Otherwise, agents, editors, and ghostwriters would live at the post office, mailing out NDAs all day long.
No one can steal your idea if you write the idea on a piece of paper. It's the law.
~William Hammett
Contact: wmhammett@aol.com
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