Been thinking about this some more and just wanted to say that I've fallen in love with writing novellas lately. I think they're particularly suited to crime.
Hope it's okay to resurrect this thread.
I have an unpublished short story that I intend to develop into a novel.
Uncle Jim posted details (in the novel forum) of an anthology submission call that I might throw my hat at. These are the rights:
First World Publication Rights, with an exclusivity period of 12 months (with the exception of Year’s Best reprints).
In the amazing event of acceptance - do those rights mean that after 12 months, I'd be fine with submitting a novel where the first chapters are a 90% match?
If you give a publication the copyright to a short story (which isn't what most contracts give the publication, but I'm just following the hypo), and that short story becomes Chapter 1 in a novel, how are you not violating the publication's copyright?
If you give a publication the copyright to a short story (which isn't what most contracts give the publication, but I'm just following the hypo), and that short story becomes Chapter 1 in a novel, how are you not violating the publication's copyright?