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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Chelsea:</p><p class=MsoNormal>Man, a Sci Fy novel, kool!</p><p class=MsoNormal>Did you do the things like create bios for your characters and some type of physical universe before fleshing out the plot and other things I don’t even know I don’t know that makes for good story telling?</p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried my hand at story telling but my story would have been good for a third grader, not the well educated futureists I wanted to impress with my rather limited imagination and vocabulary and spelling and grammer and whatever else it takes to do something like create a novel that could ever get published for that audience.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Love it that you have done the work and are ready to pull the trigger on the next step in a careerthe of imagination and entertainment.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I can surely appreciate the powerful personality you must be and the amount of work you put in to get to this point in your career!</p><p class=MsoNormal>My thought is that you might indeed want a lawyers advice after reading over the contract but don’t overthink it. </p><p class=MsoNormal>Don’t forget any downline opportunities like advertising, online viewing or reading revenues, tv and movie adaption;</p><p class=MsoNormal>Whatever is the norm for publishing a novel these days, a print media lawyer should have the outline well established and not be very expensive for a review of the contract.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulations on a brilliant milestone in your lifes work and I hope to see your story up on the big or small screen some day!</p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard R. Thomas (Rick USA)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>