The author whose book inspired Mean Girls is speaking out as production on a new iteration of the era-defining coming-of-age comedy gets underway.

Speaking to the New York Post , Rosalind Wiseman said she is considering taking legal action against Tina Fey and Paramount Studios for what she says is her fair share of the money generated by the ongoing success of Mean Girls, which is adapted from her 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes .

Wiseman said she was paid just over $400,000 for the movie rights to her book, which Fey used as the basis for the Mean Girls screenplay. Though her contract reportedly included net profits, or extra cash from the movies success at the box office, she claims she hasnt seen the additional compensation to which she believes shes entitled.

For so long I was so quiet about it, so, so quiet, but I just feel like the hypocrisy is too much, she said. I think its fair for me to be able to get compensated in some way for the work that has changed our culture and changed the zeitgeist.