Diane Spivey joined publishing over 30 years ago as assistant in an export department. She swiftly moved to contracts and rights where she worked her way up, primarily within general trade publishing houses, from rights assistant to rights director, and now works as contracts director for the Hachette UK publishing group. She is a lecturer on Selling Rights, and a contributor to Clark’s Publishing Agreements. She has been a member of WiP since the first meeting and served on the main committee and the Training Committee.