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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 3651306, member: 534"] I've written several non-fiction books on contract for organizations in the fishing how-to field. None of those organizations is still in business, as the mass market in my field has evolved to video and online. The last one I wrote was the 2nd best selling title among the more than 100 books its publisher had put out. Fortunately for me, not too long after writing it, the publisher changed their rules for contract authors, and allowed us to buy copies at an attractive price for resale. Over the course of 5 years or so, I more than tripled what I'd made on the original contract. When they were liquidating, I bought back the rights to that book from them for a song.[I] (really, a token amount).[/I] I sat on it for nearly a decade, and now I'm rewriting and updating it, and much of the material will be included in a new, more comprehensive book. My prospective publisher had hoped to have a completed manuscript this fall, and I had all intentions of devoting my recovery period following surgery to rewriting the existing book. Unfortunately, my ambition level during recovery was pretty much non-existent. I didn't even start to make any post-surgical headway on the project until two weeks ago. I need to finish this one, because I have a work of fiction in my brain that desperately wants out. [/QUOTE]