We are following up on our email from a couple weeks ago to collect further information on how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting your professional activities and what, if any, assistance you have received and need. Please fill out this brief questionnaire to help us focus our services and advocacy on the issues that matter most to authors during this time.

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* 1. Has your income from any source declined due to the crisis?

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* 2. If yes, what percentage of your income was lost?

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* 3. What were the sources of that income? (Check all that apply.)

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* 4. Have you applied for unemployment or any COVID-19-related relief?

If yes, what is the status of the application? (Use Questions 5–9 to answer for the specific relief program you applied for.)

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* 5. Regular Unemployment:

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* 6. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) for independent contractors and freelancers:

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* 7. Paychex Protection Plan (PPP) Loan:

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* 8. Emergency Disaster Loan:

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* 9. Emergency grant or loan from a private foundation or fund:

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* 10. If you have any further comments about your unemployment application experience, please provide them here:

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* 11. Have you been unable to work because of any of the following? (Check all that apply.)

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* 12. Do you have a book that was recently published, was scheduled to be published, and/or will be published this spring or summer?

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* 13. Was your publication date moved due to the crisis?

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* 14. Did you ask your publisher to move it?

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* 15. Have you had any issues with publishers not fulfilling terms of a contract, canceling or threatening to cancel a contract, or not signing a deal that was close to final?

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* 16. If yes, please explain:

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* 17. If you have recently entered into or are negotiating a new book deal, is your publisher asking to extend the payout of the advance? 

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* 18. If yes, by how long?

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* 19. Have you had trouble being paid in a timely manner by a book, newspaper, or magazine publisher?

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* 20. If yes, please explain:

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* 21. What support would you like to see from the Authors Guild?

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