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Topic: Re-selling story that got hacked by editor
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| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 10/7/2007 12:03:27 PM | show profile So a few years back I did this story for a nationwide mag on an evergreen topic. For reaons that I don't know (and then was too stupid to ask) the editors hacked the story to bits and slapped another writer's name on it. The finished story has maybe 5 sentences of my original writing/quotes, etc. I think the originally was really good, still stands the test of time and I'd like to re-sell it. (In some part because the way it ran before I can't even use it as a clip - especially with someone else's name on it.) So if I'm shopping it to other editors (blind at this point) do I send the hacked version *and* my original? Or can I just send the original? Is this really a reprint? I don't want new editors to think I'm an idiot if they see this hacked version, but at the same time I'm not trying to get one over on anyone .... Oh and the contract does permit me to resell it. |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 10/7/2007 7:06:51 PM | show profile I'd just send the original and sell it as a new story. |
| Marie | Posted – 10/8/2007 1:22:24 AM | show profile I'd query first, and then if you get a yes, send story. I wouldn't mention the other publication. |
| reporterwriter | Posted – 10/8/2007 8:00:35 PM | show profile Please don't try selling the hacked version. It happened to me once; a writer resold (and resold again) a story so heavily rewritten it originally ran with a double byline. When I saw the resale, I sure was angry, because the story was mostly my work. So sell your original, your work, not someone else's. |
