It's the alternative to melting them down! They ain't collecting a rando pile of jewels.

I also can't help but think about how the only real alternative to this is the jewels moving from a public museum to a billionaire's private collection.

I was revising a story for an editor last night and I found a spot where I'd done exactly this (turned a 3-character 100-word fight into 9 words). But now I wanna find my own source!

I wouldn't be surprised if I heard it from him!

Nah, it's all good! I know it's about the contract, and I've only chimed in as I thought would be useful to clarify its contents. Your review made me realize I needed to specify the "special projects no longer standard" in my post!

Yes, they got delisted due to Grinder's criteria. Hopefully the new contracts will get them back on the lists.

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Made a small edit to clarify that they've said they're making the "special options" clause optional. If you don't like it, you can skip it. (I decided to take the gamble, but asked for a % list instead of % profits.)

Weird, I know! SFWA freaked out too. Publisher is making it opt-in for future boilerplate, but I decided to give it a shot with this particular story.

As I read it, best-of is named as an explicit exception to exclusivity!

Ok, Phoebeatrice.