[Publisher] Daverana Enterprises

i don't know where else to put this, but please move it if it is in the wrong place.

I'm so nervous and upset that i created my username wrong and left an e out of my name.

But i came here for help and I have no idea where to post my question.

I have a start up company as an ebook and PoD publisher. I also have post polio syndrome, but I manage well most of the time.

Any way, when I spoke to some friends that I have worked with in the past at other companies, they all wanted to help. One in particular had always been trying to ride my modest coattails and admitted it. He volunteered to slush the art we were getting subbed for covers if I would name him my art director. I did so.

then he made a very premature post about the company (I'm still waiting for my webmaster to finish getting the mysql database set up for our company site) and i was forced to get email accounts set up before I was ready to deal with them. Being very tired, I asked him to set up two accounts for me at gmail using my company name as the name on the accounts.

he did so. the accounts were [email protected] and [email protected] so you can see that the company name was part of it.

He got uglier and uglier, trying to control everything i was doing to get the company set up so i told him that we would go separate ways allowing me to finish getting everything set up at a reasonable pace.

Before I could get all of the passwords changed, he ran off with the two accounts that bore the name of my company, changed the passwords and the security question. If he had just shut down the accounts I would not have a problem. He instead gave them to someone else and the accounts are still live and people are complaining online because I am not answering email sent to those accounts.

Is there anything at all I can do about this? I would be content if the accounts could just be shut down. I can't even make a proper launch of the company with all the hassles this is creating for me.

thank you. i appreciate this.

Thanks, Caopaux. I have been having so much difficulty in damage control from this situation. He's now telling people that I "pressured" him into making the post that started all my troubles.

We got the mysql database up yesterday. We're now having troubles getting Thunderbird to accept the website mail accounts that my webmaster set up.

It takes time to make things work and I really did not need Joel doing this to me.

I have been advised by a number of pros that the best thing to do at this point was to make posts around that would let people know what the real places to sub was so that nothing ended up going to the compromised accounts.

I still need to get the art guidelines up.

My royalties from Renebooks are supporting the new company. My publisher, Jean Marie Stine, has been very supportive of my efforts to start my own company.

We are finally on our feet and running. The website got a complete overhaul. I was ready to give up completely until August of last year when Tim Willard dug in his heels and said, "no, we're not dead, we just have to fight harder." Then I replaced my editor-in-chief with Elaine Daniels and our biggest challenge is now promotion. We have a lot of good authors coming out and we have a regular schedule.