I agree, BenPanced -- it's way too late to cancel the con. Not only would they still be contractually liable for all the hotel/food costs, they've already paid their speakers/airfare, etc. Plus, if they cancel, anyone who has paid an airfare to get there as an attendee could sue (even a spurious lawsuit has to be defended and that's expensive).
Jaid Black claims to have a security detail reading all of her emails and tracking people down. This is some WTF crazy.
https://twitter.com/dearauthor/status/510283325148119040
Jaid Black claims to have a security detail reading all of her emails and tracking people down. This is some WTF crazy.
https://twitter.com/dearauthor/status/510283325148119040
But Ellora's Cave isn't small. They did extremely well for a number of years. I know they have lost some of their reputation and status during the last number of years, but it makes me wonder what happened to all the profit? I would have assumed they have a lot of money set aside to cover expenses and reinvest in the company.
Jaid Black claims to have a security detail reading all of her emails and tracking people down. This is some WTF crazy.
https://twitter.com/dearauthor/status/510283325148119040
It calls itself a pop culture parody, so ????
This article from 2013 was interesting. If EC is pulling in $15 million a year, where's the money going? And she's shopping a reality show based on EC now too?
http://www.ohio.com/news/top-storie...make-a-fortune-selling-erotic-novels-1.420106
Is Jaid still married to that murderer? I seem to recall some years back she was working to get him out of jail (met and married him while he was in there). Maybe money has been going on legal fees...
ETA: Article from 2007 on said marriage. Blog has disappeared but can be found on wayback machine
http://web.archive.org/web/20070617.../you-cant-help-who-you-fall-in-love-with.html
I think the comments on the Publisher's Weekly article are interesting. It seems like multiple publishers have seen sharp swings in Amazon sales, suggesting they are playing with the algorithms. Ellora's Cave's covers have almost certainly caused them some problems with the algorithms, but there's also a suggestion in one of the comments about new authors not selling as well as they used to. Stacey Hayden speculates it's because Amazon want to sell more from the big publishers, but I'm wondering if it's an attempt to drive authors with smaller publishers into Amazon's self-pub arms. There's got to be some long term hybrid authors out there with interesting stats to share.
I think their sales slacked off on Amazon due to their high prices as others have already mentioned.
My own sales with my three publishers have not slacked off at all. Even my backlist is still selling reasonably well on Amazon. And I am far from being a big name. I write erotic romance.
Has anyone gotten the message Dear Author is talking about here?
"Several authors have now been told this: that EC will just copyedit their books and publish them without their okay."
https://twitter.com/dearauthor/status/510218010443796480
Jaid Black claims to have a security detail reading all of her emails and tracking people down. This is some WTF crazy.
https://twitter.com/dearauthor/status/510283325148119040
Beyond the one blog post that's being reposted and tweeted EVERYWHERE, are there other authors saying that they haven't been paid that anyone's aware of?