I sent an e-mail to Darla yesterday and this was her reply:
"Dear Mr. Crane:
We have invested time and money into your contract; and we have given you
everything that we promised. Importantly, you knew before you signed with
PublishAmerica that you would be obligated to promote your book.
PublishAmerica makes this perfectly clear on its website; and this
requirement is spelled out in the contract itself. Nevertheless, you have
now admitted to an anticipatory breach by claiming that you have stopped
promoting your book. While you are free to breach your contract if you so
choose, it is still a breach a contract and we are entitled to damages.
Please do not compound the damages caused by your breach by forcing us to
spend more time responding to your unwelcome advances. If you want to
terminate the contract, you have an avenue open to you; you can accept our
very reasonable offer.
Thank you,
Darcy
Public Relations/Web
[email protected] "
What should I do?
Well, this ought to influence a stampede of authors into PA's loving arms.
Since PA's contract places promotion as PA's responsibility and states only that the author should actively participate, it sounds to me like PA better start setting up those interviews, signings, and what nots so their authors can participate.
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