About a week ago I received a letter via snail mail from PA informing me that they are discontinuing publication of my book as per my request for termination of my contract and that all rights under the copyright are returned to me.
I wrote two extremely polite letters to get to this stage merely pointing out that sales had been low and that I would like to offer it to other publishers and would they consider releasing me from the contract. They sent back a polite reply saying that they might grant the request and asking whether I might find changing the contract to non-exclusive useful or not. I replied thanking them for their suggestion but asking still to be fully released.
I sent the original email on the 12th of July. Their release letter to me is dated July 17th although I did not recieve it until the second week in August owing to the fact that according to the 1.08.07 postmark it came here via Cairo!
To say that I am pleased with this outcome and the manner in which it came about is an understatement!
I wrote two extremely polite letters to get to this stage merely pointing out that sales had been low and that I would like to offer it to other publishers and would they consider releasing me from the contract. They sent back a polite reply saying that they might grant the request and asking whether I might find changing the contract to non-exclusive useful or not. I replied thanking them for their suggestion but asking still to be fully released.
I sent the original email on the 12th of July. Their release letter to me is dated July 17th although I did not recieve it until the second week in August owing to the fact that according to the 1.08.07 postmark it came here via Cairo!
To say that I am pleased with this outcome and the manner in which it came about is an understatement!
It might also be that I am based in the UK and a while back I understand that they had decided not to take on board any more UK writers.