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Dear agent,
I am taking longer than forever to finish my two-novel series. The series contains a lot of content from three prior unpublished manuscripts, which I believe to be not-so-great in general and I wanted to instead take the good portions of them towards my new projects. I do have the three prior manuscripts copyrighted with the Library of Congress, and am able to prove authenticity, but I am not rich and can't afford lawyers.
The copyrighting of unpublished content was something I did because I know I tend to trust the wrong people, and it turns out I have. My ex-girlfriend seemed very nice, long story short she wasn't. She has the three unpublished manuscripts and may have done God-knows-what with them.
I am afraid that once I finally finish my two current projects, I'll submit them to agents and then if it turned out some of the content of them "wasn't mine," I might get blacklisted due to the agent thinking I am a plagiarist. Once my manuscripts are ready to send out to agents, how could I find out if some of my original and copyrighted content ended up in someone else's work first? How would I deal with such a situation if it did turn out that my content was jacked?
Sorry for the long question, and thank you very much for your time.
I am taking longer than forever to finish my two-novel series. The series contains a lot of content from three prior unpublished manuscripts, which I believe to be not-so-great in general and I wanted to instead take the good portions of them towards my new projects. I do have the three prior manuscripts copyrighted with the Library of Congress, and am able to prove authenticity, but I am not rich and can't afford lawyers.
The copyrighting of unpublished content was something I did because I know I tend to trust the wrong people, and it turns out I have. My ex-girlfriend seemed very nice, long story short she wasn't. She has the three unpublished manuscripts and may have done God-knows-what with them.
I am afraid that once I finally finish my two current projects, I'll submit them to agents and then if it turned out some of the content of them "wasn't mine," I might get blacklisted due to the agent thinking I am a plagiarist. Once my manuscripts are ready to send out to agents, how could I find out if some of my original and copyrighted content ended up in someone else's work first? How would I deal with such a situation if it did turn out that my content was jacked?
Sorry for the long question, and thank you very much for your time.