From the Meisha Merlin Website

[rolanni]

Dear Friends of Liad and all the ships at sea --

We're now free to Name the Bad Thing.

the unsigned note below can be found on the Meisha Merlin website, if you happen to run a browser that plays nice with their *^&&!!* marquee.

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LATEST NEWS:

Dear Fans,

I am sorry to say that due to major distribution problems Meisha
Merlin Publishing, Inc. will be closing their doors in May 2007. Both
Kevin and I along with the entire staff here at Meisha Merlin want to
thank all our fans, customers, authors, & artist for your support
over the past eleven years. We are sorry to have to do this, but
events beyond our control have forced us to make this decision.


ATTN: For those of you who have purchased The Virginia Edition. The
Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust has worked out an agreement
to continue publishing The Virginia Edition. You can expect a letter
from them within the very near future & volume seven will be arriving
to you in late May or early June.


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Most of you knew this or suspected...

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[difrancis.livejournal.com]

Yes. But I hoped it wasn't that.

Di

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

So now I can say "That sucks!" in public.

[eackerman.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear this, and I appreciate all the fine books and quality reading time you've brought us over the years.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Damn.

[drammar.livejournal.com]

Very to sorry to have that confirmed.

Pat

[pbray.livejournal.com]

:-(

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Damn and blast. Here's hoping that proverbial window opens itself soonish...

Sad Indeed

[(Anonymous)]

At least now we can...move on? I, for one, had put several projects of my career on hold, thinking I had to worry about fulfilling my obligation before I could look after my other interests.

Now I can move forward with those projects, though one of them is now finding a home for the orphaned second half of my "Demon-Bound" Duology.

*sigh*

I'm sorry this had to happen though--I really WAS looking forward to WEB OF THE TRIDENT... :-)

Laura J. Underwood

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about that. Do you know what caused MM to go belly up? Of course, even if you do know, it may be something that can't really be revealed in public, and not without a lot of profanity.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Very6 sorry to hear this!

[mindslv.livejournal.com]

More than a little sorry to hear this. What happens to Web of Trident now? I've been so unpushy about asking for updates. *BIG SIGH*

Drat.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I was hoping this was not the big bad thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Dratit! Meisha Merlin most closely approximated my reading interests of all the publishing houses.

Please tell what happens with _Web of the Trident_. I want to buy it.

Adrianne