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tnwilz
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If you had a story published by WOTF and later decided to build on that story, would that be OK? For example, lets say our Aliette decided later on, to make Obsidian Shards the first chapter of a novel, could she do that or would that be considered dirty cricket?

Tracy


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luapc
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I believe that the contest only buys first publication rights, which is used up with the anthology's release. They may also buy rights for a year after that, but I don't think so. Regardless, after those rights are used up, no matter what, the story becomes the author's again to do with as they please.

Many good stories go on to get published two or three times in separate places. On top of that, the ideas or worlds in a story always still belong to the author, so in Aliette's example, she could write many more stories in her world and be perfectly legal as well.

Like I said, all of this depends on what rights WOTF buys. Most magazines and anthologies buy only first publication rights. Some only for the US, and others foreign and US, depending upon their circulation. For WOTF, they'd have to be buying both foreign and domestic first publication rights at the very least, since their anthology goes out worldwide.


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Robert Nowall
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Given that they're a writing contest, they must have something about what rights they're buying written down somewhere...and, certainly, you might want to find out before you submit to them...do they have a website?
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tnwilz
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Well its not really under the rules unless. Oh wait, your right its under FAQ. So yes it looks like I can as long as the story has been edited to stand on its own. This is assuming a great deal of course but you don't know if you don't try. So here goes nothin.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious


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Just saw this.

A WOTF winner from Volume XVIII, Patrick Rothfuss, published a novel last year called "The Name of the Wind". The novel which he now developed into a trilogy, is based on his Vol XVIII winning short story "The Road to Levenshir".

It also just came out in Paperback and was on the NYT bestseller list a couple of weeks ago.


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