You finished the book and that is an excellent accomplishment on it's own. Good luck with what comes next.

Actually, I finished that book and it was published decades ago. It got good reviews and moderate sales and then vanished, as most books do. Having it come back to life even to this degree after all this time is delightful. (I got the rights back and reissued it myself a few years ago, and that edition sells moderately, too, so it didn't quite vanish.)

I hope there's a reasonable time limit before you regain control over it.

I thought they were usually for a year, but in this case, there's the time to write the script, and the wait for the writer's strike to end. And it's the only interest I've had in one of my books in quite a few years, so I'm okay with it.

Good luck!