Nobody else could miss her, not half as much as me

[rolanni]

Yeah, still working deep in the innards. Fixed a Ghods of Plot problem today. Ahhhh. That’s better.

For those writers who read here, and who may not have seen it elsewhere — Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside is apparently given to creative interpretation of contract language, and professes to believe that they have the right to refuse to honor contract terms on whim. Doranna Durgin, who is a very nice person, a skilled writer, and who really doesn’t need this sort of nonsense explains all.

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog, where Yr Hmbl Hostess is about to push the publish button, get off this infernal machine, and go read a book.

Everybody have a good evening.

Hey!

Tomorrow is Monday.

And I don’t care!

 

 

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[elbales]

That's two days in a row I've read about publisher contract shenanigans. Is there something in the water?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Sheesh.

No, not the water. The economy sucks, money's beyond tight, and the trickle-down effect is in full force. It's a bad time for artists, musicians, writers, and other people who depend on the disposable income of others for their eating money.

If -- I'm speculating here -- the distributors didn't pay the press, or the bookstores returned more than projected, or the cost of paper went up... Authors get paid last, in a lot of cases because the day-to-day costs of a publishing house -- like the day-to-day costs of my house -- have to be paid as they come in, while authors get paid once every six months, for income they generated six-months-to-a-year in the past.

It's kind of easy to just say that you'll catch up the payments next time, when things pick up.

Things haven't picked up that I've noticed...