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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
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3:10p - As wanky as a red, red rose.
Publishing wank, fresh and delicious! Get yer publishing wank, get it while it's long and sticky!
(this wank courtesy of ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) wank_report)
It starts on Dear Author, with a post about one Red Rose Publishing. Kat Holmes, an author I have no particular knowledge of, finally got out of an NDA and posted a blog about her experiences with the publishing house. The DA summary includes books being published either too early or too late without the authors being told and breaches of contract that, when the author asks for the rights to be reverted, are answered with bills for cover art and editing services, and notices from cover artists and editors quitting are ignored. Part of the horror story from Kat's blog is reproduced, go over and read it if you want a nice, healthy dose of paranoia about picking publishers.
In any case, the founder of Red Rose responds, in a totally, utterly, completely professional and sane manner.
( What I just said is a flagrant lie )
And on, and on, and on. But that's only half this beautiful piece of work.
( To the comments! )
It's a long one, but there's a lot of glorious batshit pagentry on display. Sprinkled throughout are anonymous authors, editors, and others chiming in with their experiences with RRP, most of which are distinctly negative. This is a wank I highly encourage clicking through, because there's way more that I just couldn't include.
And here come the ETAs: Writers Beware just picked it up. Courtesy of ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) sistercoyote
ETA the second: Red Rose threatens to sue Dear Author! This could be interesting, and by "interesting" I mean "hilarious". Thanks rainkatt!
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