Apr 24 2013
Publishers Marketplace: The Latest Deals – Publishers Marketplace quietly added a new category to its Deals listing: New Adult. The change did not go unnoticed and some people (agents in some cases I guess) reacted very unhappily, not unlike some readers here at Dear Author. Apparently New Adult must have killed someone’s parents (historical mama(…)
Jun 29 2008
In light of the recent occurrences at NCP in which the publisher took a partial from an author and inserted it into an anthology without her permission and allowed others to finish the story for her, again without her permission, I wondered what impact that had on readers. Whenever I hear of a publishing fiasco,(…)
Jun 25 2008
Sydney Somers, a former NCP author, released an alert regarding a New Concepts Publishing release. Somers wrote three chapters of a full length novel that was never released but was contracted by NCP last summer. Today, the three chapters has been converted into a novella and inserted into an anthology with two other authors. Somers(…)
Jun 12 2008
We blogged a couple of weeks ago about Iris Print and the speculations that it was closing its doors. One of the more prominent authors, Rebecca Day, had encouraged people to still buy her book Thaw that was published by Iris. Tina, I wouldn’t say things are resolved – just that I’m reasonably confident that(…)
May 30 2008
I received two publisher alerts and want to share them with the community. One relates to a Yaoi publisher closing shop and the second is Tokyo Pop’s Manga Pilot draconian contract. Iris Print: Iris Print is a Yaoi publisher who apparently closed up shop and failed to tell its authors. Giapet.Net first reported this on(…)
May 12 2008
In an act that will endear authors to Indiana in spite of its recent “sex registry for booksellers” law, the Indiana Attorney General is suing publisher, Airleaf aka Bookman Marketing, for accepting payment of authors and not delivering the promised services from publication to promotional services. The owner is Carl Lau and it looks like(…)
May 11 2008
Update. Kira Takenochi has alerted people to new changes in her Yaoi publishing role. Hello Everyone, For most of you, this is going to come as no surprise, as I’ve been discussing this situation for a few weeks now in my journal at the site. As of tonight I will be shutting down the Yaoi(…)
Sep 10 2007
San Diego publisher, Ed Johnson, promised non published authors that he could make their dreams of being in print, a reality. For $5,700.00 an author could send their book to be printed through Johnson’s press. The books, however, never materialized. Emails went unanswered and phone calls unreturned. The website is no longer operation. Johnson says(…)
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