If you want to tell stories, but they might impugne upon the character of someone else … do what other people do and … change the names. 🙂 Unless their name is truly important to the story, it seems like that would get you the best of both worlds! =)
Perhaps MJS is figuring on growing his audience and then reverting to indie but pulling some of the extra mainstream audience back with him, so he leaves lots of money on the table this year … but makes more in future years than he would have without having had a mainstream publication? It might even work, though your concerns about right of first refusal seem like valid ones!
If you want to tell stories, but they might impugne upon the character of someone else … do what other people do and … change the names. 🙂 Unless their name is truly important to the story, it seems like that would get you the best of both worlds! =)
Perhaps MJS is figuring on growing his audience and then reverting to indie but pulling some of the extra mainstream audience back with him, so he leaves lots of money on the table this year … but makes more in future years than he would have without having had a mainstream publication? It might even work, though your concerns about right of first refusal seem like valid ones!
P.S. I think you mean a hygrometer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrometer), not a hydrometer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrometer).
Yea. HyGRometer and hyDRometer sound a lot a like