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I'm not willing to just scrap it- especially since it's the first of a series- but it has increased in length by about 1/3, and will have a new title. I'll have to change all that with the copyright. It will all get sorted out, but it's good to know that PA will give you back the rights. The $200 I'll have to pay will work out to be worth it, I think.
I am not saying to scrap the book, but think this through. I did what you are suggesting, with the exception that PA returned my rights without me having to buy them back. It was tougher than I thought it would be.
The process to get an other than first NA rights sale is pretty tough. Most people don't want to mess with something that has already had a hard time selling. Even with the units I was able to move, it was still a hard sell to the publishers.
I wrote another book, one that tied to the first two. I sold it to a small publisher and eventually was able to sell the first two as a single book. It took months of rewrites and corrections. In short, it would have been easier to write another book than to fix the PA books.
If I had to do it again, I would have left the other two books at PA, started again under a new name, and moved on.
just a thought...