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Two points here:
Under US law, anything you write is copyrighted. Anything. Your question above in fact is copyrighted. You likely can't not copyright something, even if you wanted to. So it is simply not legal for a publisher to pass your work along to someone else to touch up and publish without your permission.
If you are just thinking about the basic story ideas, rather than the implementation of them, Mark Baker has it completely correct. Here's J. Michael Straczynski (author of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, head writer of Murder She Wrote, Babylon-5, and many others) on this subject:
Story ideas are worthless.
It's very doubtful that you or anybody
else has had an idea that nobody in the history of mankind has ever
had before. You can take a basic idea and give it to 10 different
writer and you'll get 10 TOTALLY different stories. What matters is
execution, how the idea is rendered....
Most amateur writers don't know or understand that, and think that
their story idea is something saleable, something somebody wants to
buy, or something they need to jealously protect. There are even
people who will exploit that. There was a publication a few years ago
which would publish your story idea in a big book, on per page (which
you paid for, natch), and sent it to the major studios and networks.
Not one of them ever sold. None of them were worth buying. None of
them were really stories. And it was thrown into the trash of every
studio or network at which it arrived because of fear of lawsuit.
If you were unaware of the second point, or are further interested in the subject of the pain of writers having to constantly fend off bogus "story idea" lawsuits, I highly suggest clicking the link above and reading his entire 23-paragraph detailed explanation on the subject.
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