Letters of OpinionARCs / authors-behaving-badly / blogging / genre critique / harassment / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Reader Reviews / stalking181 Comments
For better or worse, I have always been a fighter. For the people and principles I care about most, I will go to the mat, and the more unfair a situation becomes, the more energized to set things right I seem to become. I’m one of those cynical idealists who ... more >
Publishing Newscopyright infringement / New Adult / Noble Romance / Publishers-Behaving-Badly72 Comments
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 ... more >
Ebooks / Letters of OpinionNew-Concepts-Publishing / Publishers-Behaving-Badly60 Comments
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 ... more >
Ebooks / Publishing NewsEpublisher / epublishing / New-Concepts-Publishing / Publishers-Behaving-Badly158 Comments
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 ... more >
Book Reviewspublisher-closings / Publishers-Behaving-Badly16 Comments
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 ... more >
Mangaauthor-rights / Bankruptcy / Publishers-Behaving-Badly / Tokyo-Pop20 Comments
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. ... more >