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victoriastrauss said:I don't know if Seven Locks is an across-the-board vanity publisher, but for at least some books there's a substantial charge (one writer quoted $15,000).
victoriastrauss said:I've also heard from writers who have had extreme difficulty getting the publisher to pay royalties due.
Interestingly enough, if you go to their website www.sevenlockspress.com you get the following:Story Teller said:Does anyone have info on or have you had dealings with Seven Locks Press of Santa Ana, Calif.
They were at one point a subsidiary of Chapman University Press. Who owns them now is questionable.IF YOU NEED INFORMATION CONCERNING
SEVEN LOCKS PRESS AND ITS OWNERSHIP,
PLEASE TELEPHONE 406-442-6520.
THANK YOU.
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Seven Locks Press is a good and legitimate business! It has been a true pleasure working with them.
If nothing else, some insight into how publishers steer "hot topic" books....At the center of the lawsuit is an Oklahoma prosecutor by the name of William N. Peterson. He got murder convictions on two men who did 12 years in prison before they were cleared by DNA evidence. He also got questionable convictions on two other men in a separate murder case. They are still in prison.
The cases spawned three books: "The Dreams of Ada" by journalist Robert Mayer; "The Innocent Man," the first non-fiction book by author Grisham; and "Journey Toward Justice," by Dennis Fritz, who was one of the wrongly convicted men. To varying degrees, the books are critical of Peterson, who has been the elected district attorney for 27 years.
Seven Locks is Fritz's publisher. The first editions of the Grisham and Fritz books and an updated version of Mayer's were all published within weeks of each other last fall. Book tours and publicity ensued. Even Fritz, the least-known writer with the smallest house, got on "Dateline," "Hannity and Colmes" and other national shows. In Oklahoma, Peterson seethed.
Last Friday, Peterson and a detective who worked on the Fritz case sued the publishers, the authors and attorney Scheck, who represented Fritz, wrote the foreward for Fritz's book and wrote about the case in his own book, "Actual Innocence." Grisham had also provided a cover blurb for Fritz.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges civil conspiracy, libel, placing a person in a false light and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Peterson says the defendants "coordinated their efforts to launch a massive joint defamatory attack" on him and the detective.
"There's no merit," to the suit, Riordan says. The reason his book published two days before Grisham's was competitive.
By rights, Riordan says, Fritz's book should have gone to a major publishing house, but with Grisham's in the works at Random, no one else wanted to touch it. So, Riordan says, he bought it on the condition that it would be finished in time to compete with Grisham's, not complement it....
Does anyone have info on or have you had dealings with Seven Locks Press of Santa Ana, Calif.
Here's more info on Peterson et al v. Grisham et al: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-okedce/case_no-6:2007cv00317/case_id-16884/...a federal judge has thrown out a libel suit filed by an Oklahoma D.A. against Santa Ana book publisher Jim Riordan. His Seven Locks Press published "Journey Toward Justice," which alleged gross misconduct by a shoot-from-the-hip prosecutor in Ada, Okla.
The man the prosecutor convicted did 11 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. He was exonerated by DNA. Two other books were written about the same prosecutor – who sued the authors/publishers of all three. Among Riordan's co-defendants was novelist-turned-nonfiction writer John Grisham.
The Muskogee-based U.S. District Court judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying the statements were "constitutionally protected."