> > > Veloci--good for Jack!--raptor
> >
> > Indeed :)
> > Are we sure it's the same Jack?
>
> we are....
> =g=
>
> In fact, just now that Jack posted over in writing:

ahh, but see... I don't get Writing :)
Last I saw/heard from Jack was about..hmm...98, 99? Maybe even before that!
My God...

>
> ====
> From: Jack Lynch 
> To: writing2{at}tantech.com
> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 15:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [writing2] Hello Everyone!
> Message-ID:
> 
>
> pddb{at}demesne.com writes:
>
>     What publishers will give you is their boilerplate contract.
>     This contains clauses that they will never enforce even if
>     you sign it as is, because the clauses do not apply to the
>     kind of writing you do.
>
> When I published my trade-press abridgment of Johnson's
> _Dictionary_ last year, the contract said that I gave the
> publisher the movie rights.
>
> Drat! -- and I had plans of optioning it to Miramax, with Brad
> Pitt as the noun substantive and a cameo by Meryl Streep as the
> letter N.  I thought about calling it a deal-breaker.
>
> (Happy news: though it's been available only through mail order
> so far, in September a retail edition will be released in a
> co-publishing deal with Walker Books.  Walker is best known for
> Dava Sobel's _Longitude_; they've also done _Brunelleschi's
> Dome_, _The Victorian Internet_, _A Basque History of the World_,
> &c.)
>

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