Ellis Jones

Even by the letter of the Me Too.

Law, whatever it is.

Law.

It's law.

They're afraid.

There's woke law, okay?

They're afraid.

They're afraid to be associated with a book like this.

But I had gotten really lucky because I talked to my mom about signing a contract.

I'd never signed a contract before.

And she negotiated.

She was like, if these people decide not to go through with this, she's like, the two things that you've got to do if it's going to go through is you've got to get some kind of back end.

Whether even if it's merchandise or if it gets optioned for a movie or they mass produce the book, you got to get some kind of royalty on top of it.

It can't just be this money that you're getting.

This is seed money.

This is, you know, and she also said if they're going to.

If they're not going to go through with it, then you have to get compensated for the period of time that you've spent working on this, and I think they call it a fee.

But they got clever with the contract.

Yeah, whatever, where they're like –

You got to turn a book in at the end of five years.