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Sad News - THEREAFTER indefinitely delayed |
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Monday, 13 May 2013 10:21 |
SAD NEWS
For the last few weeks, THEREAFTER has been delayed due to a dispute with the publisher, Eternal Press. Unfortunately, during the copyediting and formatting stage, EP inserted numerous typographical, formatting, and grammatical mistakes. Despite knowing these numerous mistakes exist, and repeated attempts by me to work with the publisher to get the mistakes fixed, the publisher has gone ahead and published the book anyway. This action is in direct violation of our contract, and as such, I am now taking legal action for breach of contract and seeking the return of the rights to the story.
While I know many of you are eager to read THEREAFTER, the errors in the published version are significant—letters between characters changed to dialog, 95% of italics (for internal thoughts and emphasis) removed, and glaring grammatical mistakes. While the book will soon be appearing for sale in various retail channels—until I can compel its removal via injunction—I ask that you not purchase it. I know curiosity may be piqued by this announcement—as such, if you really feel compelled to read this version of THEREAFTER knowing that it might negatively affect your enjoyment and overall opinion of the story, then I make this offer: contact me and I will provide you with a free review copy of the publisher's final version and with the final version I submitted to the publisher so that you may judge for yourself with whom the fault rests for the poor quality of the final version of THEREAFTER.
For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the next chapter in Irene’s journey, I sincerely apologize for this failure to produce a work worthy of your attention. Please know that this version of THEREAFTER does not represent the standards I set for myself or the work that I and the general editor, Alison O'Byrne, put into the book.
The great psychologist Nancy Schlossberg talks about the importance of “non-events” in one’s life – things we expected to happen but didn’t. For me, this situation is a considerable non-event – I expected to celebrate the release of my second novel this month. Instead, I now don’t know when it will be released—and this makes me unbearably sad. I do not know how long the legal process will take – my contract with the publisher is quite clear and I am confident that I will prevail in the end, but it might take days, weeks, months, or even years for the legal squabbling to be over and done with.
In the meantime, I ask for your patience and forbearance. |
