Chapbook Usually referring to a paperback book for poetry. There are several publishers of Chapbooks, including Universities and smaller presses. You'll find they most often publish Poetry Chapbooks and hold contests for these. Chapbooks also include short stories, and sometimes ballads. Now, the money isn't just bonus money, it is uusually an advance on royalties that will be made on the book, and it is usually paid in installments.
Lead time is the time between the manuscript being bought and it being published.
This can include how to bind it, what information about the work or the writer to include, and numerous other things. When it comes time to sign a contract, you sign your REAL name. Some places like to know if you are writing under a pen name ahead of time, and there is no problem in telling them. This is short for League Of Resident Theatres. Erotica Fiction that is sexually oriented.