Guidelines to Fearful Symmetries--open reading period

[ellen_datlow]

Fearful Symmetries guidelines

Comments

reprints

[anonymous]

Just a small query about the rules on reprints:
Basically I submitted a story to a publisher looking for writers to co-script a portmanteau graphic novel, (successfully I might add: graphic short story I scripted is appearing in the book in Autumn) and as part of the submission process they published the story on their website. The story I was thinking of sending features this story as part of the back story in quotation marks. Just to complicate matters even more, although the script I wrote for the graphic novel is not based on the story I originally submitted (again, it's part of the back story, but hardly even mentioned, let alone quoted word for word), the story I'm proposing to send uses a plot device and a version of one of the characters in the script.
Would this invalidate it as an original story?
Sorry for the complicated nature of this query, but I thought it best to draw it to your attention before I submit, rather than wasting your time by thinking about it afterwards.

[ellen_datlow]

If the story you want to submit has a large chunk of a story that has been published or will be published (as it sounds as it if will be this fall ) then don't submit it to me. Send me something else.