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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
She likely did have the legal right to publish a story collection before she signed, but clearly it's a sign of bad faith, since she was almost certainly in negotiations with them during that time. If your neighbor offers to sell you a car with 80,000 miles on it, and puts another 10,000 miles on it the week before you hand over the check, are you going to thank them for their diligent efforts in making sure the car rides well?
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From my take of things, it isn't quite that way. The author mentions how the contract was for a novel, and what they'd self published was short story collections. How is it bad faith? In your analogy, its like trying to sell a car, and then the person buying the car gets pissed off you sold a motorcycle last year.