Is Your Book Ready for International Rights Licensing?
Find out before you commit to a full membership. A DropCap Agent Evaluation gives you a professional, written assessment of your book’s international licensing potential from the agents who built the DropCap Rights Agency.
DropCap works best for books that are ready to travel.
Before you invest in an Agent Evaluation, here’s a quick self-check. The more of these that apply to your book, the stronger your international licensing potential.
- Your book is professionally produced with complete editing, design, and market-ready presence.
- You retain your international and subsidiary rights.
- Your book has demonstrated commercial traction such as sales history, reviews, awards, or category recognition.
- You’re actively investing in your author platform and marketing.
- You’re motivated by foreign language, audio, film, or adaptation opportunities.
- You have realistic expectations and know that rights licensing takes relationships and time.
A professional assessment. Not a form, not an algorithm
Your Agent Evaluation is crafted by an experienced rights agent. Someone who works with international buyers, attends the major book fairs, and deeply understands what makes a title sell in foreign markets. We evaluate across eight criteria based how buyers assess acquisition potential.
Target Audience
Is your readership clearly defined and broadly appealing across markets?
Author Platform & Credibility
Does your professional presence signal ongoing audience-building to buyers?
Market Trends
How well does your book fit current global publishing demand?
Competitive Differentiation
What makes your book distinct, and can buyers position it in their market?
Endorsements & Social Proof
What third-party validation supports your book’s commercial appeal?
Interior and Writing Style
Is your book written and produced to a professional standard?
Cover Appeal
Does your cover meet international expectations for genre and professionalism
Overall Global Licensing Potential
The agents’ synthesized assessment of your realistic rights licensing potential.
Your evaluation opens the door. What you do next is up to you.
Your book is ready. Join as a member.
If your review shows strong licensing potential, the next step is a DropCap membership. Your $35 applies toward your first year. You’ll have a listing, book fair presence, and agents actively pitching on your behalf.
Your book needs work. Here’s what to do.
If your review identifies areas to strengthen, your agent will give you specific recommendations. When those are addressed, you’re ready to list. The $35 still applies.
Not the right fit right now.
If your book isn’t the right fit for international licensing at this time, your agent will tell you why and what would need to change. We’d rather give you an honest answer than take your money for a membership that won’t deliver.
Agent Evaluation
$35 / one-time fee (credited toward membership if you move forward)
- A professional rights agent evaluates your book and provides a written assessment of its international licensing potential complete with an easy-to-understand Rights Readiness Score. Evaluations are completed by the same agents who represent books at the world’s major book fairs.
- Your Agent Evaluation covers: commercial appeal, specific market interest potential, genre positioning relative to current buyer demand, and a Rights Readiness score with specific recommendations.
- Includes a preview of what your membership listing would look like.
- $35 credited toward your first year of membership.
