[stylist] Update on my publishing progress

[James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6YR]

Lori,
in that situation where they paid you for your story but hardly used 
it, how much change would you have to make to your original story so 
you could then seek to publish the original the way you wrote it?
jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 09:55 PM 2/28/2010, you wrote:
>That's good to know.  It makes it worthwhile to get a commercial publisher.
>As for who owns your book, it's them all right.
>I sold a story two years ago to Angels On Earth.  IT took them a 
>year to publish it, and then they kept maybe three lines and the 
>general idea of it, but rewrote the rest, including some things in 
>it I never would have put.  I saw it before I agreed to let them 
>publish it, and had a good laugh.  They paid $250 for it, said I 
>agreed that I was writing for pay, and they own the reprint rights, 
>though if I wanted to make a book of it, I could.
>My thought was, after they rewrote it, the story was theirs, so why 
>would I want to reprint it?  And there wasn't enough in it to make a 
>book of it.  David (my hubby) said I shouldn't write for them any 
>more, but hey, if they want to send me money for their work...   So 
>I sent them another story, but I do hope if they decide to use it, 
>they will keep more than three lines.
>Lori
>
>On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:32:53 PM, Toni <trfraser at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>Lori,
>No, they are doing the editing along with me. The person is the regular
>writer for NBP. I don't know how she is getting paid, but nothing has said
>that I have to worry about that.
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