Iris Update
Jun. 17th, 2008 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erastesWell, things have moved along overnight. Just shows you what a little bit of Internet pressure will do. Kellie Lynch has paid R W Day her royalty via Paypal, which RW Day has blogged about here.
Kellie has also added an update on the Iris Print site confirming that the press is shutting down. She makes a very illuminating comment about![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kriko_moth's art which she admits she has not paid for, as she says that the contract had clauses written in that covered late delivery. A lesson to us all about deadlines! That being said, the artist said that there wasn't a contract. And disputes that the art was late.
As for Queer Magic, well, I guess we'll just have to see about that. Whether the pre-payers get their copies, and whether the authors get paid for their stories. I'll be monitoring that.
I agree wholeheartedly with RW Day that the snide comments about Tina Anderson and her representative are unprofessional but then, we shouldn't be surprised as Ms Lynch hasn't been professional since "Connections" was published, as far as I can see. A boycott of the books is unfair? Well, that's certainly what we do over here in the UK if we are unhappy about something. Voting with your feet. Or in this case with your plastic.
However, the sentence of Kellie's which sums the whole debacle up is this: it's a bit absurd seeing so many people so very, very upset about an eighty dollar check that nobody asked for. It's patronising, flippant and proves that she has no idea, or doesn't care, that she's done anything wrong. Also - "most publishers pay royalties annually." Really? None of the many publishers I've worked with do, not even the big ones.
If this refers to RWD's payment then this is "absurd" in itself, for RW has been emailing and writing on a regular basis for about four months - at least one of the letters was registered, too.(ETA: RWD advises she didn't send a registered letter, that was sent by TA. So to say that nobody asked for it (unless every single email went missing over four months) is a big fat lie. And whether it was $80 or $800,000 or 80 CENTS, it makes no difference. If you are contracted to provide regular sales reports (she didn't) and pay royalties on TIME (she didn't) then that's what you DO.
Manners maketh the man as they say, and professionalism, honesty, clarity and politeness maketh the publisher, perhaps.
Kellie has also added an update on the Iris Print site confirming that the press is shutting down. She makes a very illuminating comment about
kriko_moth's art which she admits she has not paid for, as she says that the contract had clauses written in that covered late delivery. A lesson to us all about deadlines! That being said, the artist said that there wasn't a contract. And disputes that the art was late.As for Queer Magic, well, I guess we'll just have to see about that. Whether the pre-payers get their copies, and whether the authors get paid for their stories. I'll be monitoring that.
I agree wholeheartedly with RW Day that the snide comments about Tina Anderson and her representative are unprofessional but then, we shouldn't be surprised as Ms Lynch hasn't been professional since "Connections" was published, as far as I can see. A boycott of the books is unfair? Well, that's certainly what we do over here in the UK if we are unhappy about something. Voting with your feet. Or in this case with your plastic.
However, the sentence of Kellie's which sums the whole debacle up is this: it's a bit absurd seeing so many people so very, very upset about an eighty dollar check that nobody asked for. It's patronising, flippant and proves that she has no idea, or doesn't care, that she's done anything wrong. Also - "most publishers pay royalties annually." Really? None of the many publishers I've worked with do, not even the big ones.
If this refers to RWD's payment then this is "absurd" in itself, for RW has been emailing and writing on a regular basis for about four months - at least one of the letters was registered, too.(ETA: RWD advises she didn't send a registered letter, that was sent by TA. So to say that nobody asked for it (unless every single email went missing over four months) is a big fat lie. And whether it was $80 or $800,000 or 80 CENTS, it makes no difference. If you are contracted to provide regular sales reports (she didn't) and pay royalties on TIME (she didn't) then that's what you DO.
Manners maketh the man as they say, and professionalism, honesty, clarity and politeness maketh the publisher, perhaps.
