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Teresa Jacobs aka Teresa Wayne Jacobs Still Selling Mardi Gras Publishing Books

Jane — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:28:37 +0000

Teresa Jacobs, aka Teresa Wayne, formerly dba Mardi Gras Publishing, appears to still be selling books under the Mardi Gras Publishing banner at Ebooksabouteverything.com. The rights of all these books have reverted back to the authors yet the books are still for sale and no sales apparently are being reported to authors.

As of September 1, 2007, your title, ___________________ has been officially released from contract with Mardi Gras Publishing.

With this said, I wish you all the best in the epublishing industry and many sales-

Sincerely,

Teresa Jacobs
Publisher / Mardi Gras Publishing, LLC

I can’t help but think that eBooksabouteverything should not be selling these books unless given specific permission by the author. For example, at Fictionwise, there are no books listed under the Mardi Gras Publishing page. The only email I could find for ebooksabouteverything is info at ebooksabouteverything.com.

Former Mardis Gras Publisher Opens New E Publishing House

Jane — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:23:53 +0000

According to emails, comments, and other sources, it appears that head of Mardi Gras Publishing that went under earlier in 2007 has started a new epublishing venture called LA Media. According to some reports, Teresa Jacobs aka Teresa Wayne failed to provide renumeration to editors, cover artists and authors owed under Mardi Gras Publishing. Jaden Sinclair and Teresa Jacobs/Wayne are purportedly the owners of this new ebook startup venture.

Karen Scott is also reporting of another ebook author, Rene Lyons, starting up her own ebook venture called Dragon Spell Publishing.

I guess that is the great thing about ebooks. One publisher can close and five others rise up to take advantage of more hopeful authors. I hope that these ebook authors can learn something from the past years ebook debacle. If not, I haven’t got an ounce of sympathy for them.

E Publisher Bankruptcy Alert: Mardi Gras Publishing

Jane — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:06:44 +0000

On the heels of the Triskelion Bankrupty and the Silk’s Vault troubles, Mardi Gras Publishing will apparently be filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy at the end of this week or the start of next. (registration required). The rights will be returned to the authors but as we discussed previously, the bankruptcy court has the power to bring those rights back into the estate.

Mardi Gras authors do not want readers to be buying the books because they aren’t likely to receive a royalty off the sales.