What's an E signature?

I've never encounter an agent or editor who required an e-signature during the submission process. It makes no sense at all that the agent should have need of one.

I suggest you Google "e-signature". You'll learn more doing that than you would from a post explanation.

I did an e-signature for one of my stories. It was pretty slick. The editor emailed me a pdf of the contract, and there was a fillable form field. I don't have the contract on this computer, but if I remember right the field came with text stating "I certify that I am the person named in the signature, blah blah." At first I thought it was laughably easy to forge, but then again how much easier than to forge a written document? They don't have a sig to compare to.

For work, we sometimes do e-signatures via email; an email from my boss from his email account constitutes his approval of the document.

EDIT: I'll post more details when I get home and check the contract if nobody else has answered your question by then.

I think in this context she just means your name and contact info - even though that isn't technically what an e-signature is, I've heard some uninformed folks use that to describe the signature block at the bottom of your email - ie:

NAME
ADDRESS
TELEPHONE NUMBER
EMAIL
BLOG/SITE


So, look at her post again - I wonder if that is what she means. Because I have heard agents complain about people forgetting to include their contact info in their queries.

~suki

Maybe I'm off the mark here, but did the agent mean the signature in the email, as in...
...................."Best regards,
...................(Author's Name)"

suki said:

I think in this context she just means your name and contact info - even though that isn't technically what an e-signature is, I've heard some uninformed folks use that to describe the signature block at the bottom of your email - ie:

NAME
ADDRESS
TELEPHONE NUMBER
EMAIL
BLOG/SITE


So, look at her post again - I wonder if that is what she means. Because I have heard agents complain about people forgetting to include their contact info in their queries.

~suki

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My guess? She meant this.