Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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It's what a magazine (or in my case, back when I was a researcher, a scholar needing or wanting some ghostwriting done) pays you in order to get out of actually publishing what you've done for them.
Generally it's a pittance. Evil prats. Worst of both worlds: you do all the work, possibly incur some expenses, and you get neither a full paycheque nor your work in print.
Squirrel bastards!
Does that mean you can sell it elsewhere, though?
That's where the "kill" part comes in, I believe.
Yes, unless you've done something truly odd and signed something to contrary, generally in blood. In which case, you're hosed.
The first time I ever got kill-fee'd was a professor doing Elizabethan lit critique (article). Won't say who, when or what country. even now. I signed something, did two months worth of writing and research for a minimal weekly fee and the understanding that I'd get a co-credit and a big fat pub cheque.
I got dick-all. The bugger invoked the kill-fee clause and the article, without my name with damned all my work, appeared anyway.
Rebecca, most of the kill fees I've come across are generally the EQ of a publisher taking your book out of print; after a certain time, the rights revert to you. But it really depends on the individual scenario.
nnnargh. Feedback? Best drug ever.
Rebecca, most of the kill fees I've come across are generally the EQ of a publisher taking your book out of print; after a certain time, the rights revert to you. But it really depends on the individual scenario.
OK. Half-remembering something from a seminar years ago.
Although when the piece is time-sensitive, you're hosed on the resell. And generally one has to do some significant rewriting to fit a new publication anyhow.
Rock on, Dana. It's lovely.
Dana, you write GG that makes my mouth water.
My mom's publshed about eighteen books. She's been in the book publishing world as a writer and editor for about thirty years. Just watching her struggle so hard, and in vain, is heartbreaking. I never want to go through that. I've already gotten a book published; I'm not worried about it for the future.