I hope it's all right if I post this here! I just spent 20 minutes trying to see where this would fit I'll move it if need be!
Issue:
I was published a few months ago with a small press and only recently found out they were using lulu.com to print their books...something I could have done myself. I feel completely cheated as there was no mention of this in the contract - otherwise, I would not have even signed up.
I talked to the publisher - though I admit I didn't make a mention of what set me off. Instead, I made it seem as if I just wasn't happy with myself, hoping that I could manage through this calmly and without too much of a singe on either part.
Instead, I was threatened and told that they would not release me from the contract.
Now, someone else had mentioned that something similar happened to him and that he had to rewrite the entire book with different names, a new title, slight changes to the plot, etc and then publish that one. If I would go ahead and do something like this, what are the chances of me getting published with a new company(if accepted, of course.) Would the previous book - which isn't selling very well anyway because no one really seems to know about this company(it's first and foremost a ebook publisher and POD)- have a bad effect, hindering me from publishing the new version? No names or titles would be related to the previous work.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
Oh! P.S.
Would the publisher have grounds to sue me for doing something like this?
Might I also mention that even the history of the world that I created (it's fantasy) would change slightly. The titles used of the deities would change but the over-arching plot would be almost the same. The subplots would change for the most part.
Issue:
I was published a few months ago with a small press and only recently found out they were using lulu.com to print their books...something I could have done myself. I feel completely cheated as there was no mention of this in the contract - otherwise, I would not have even signed up.
I talked to the publisher - though I admit I didn't make a mention of what set me off. Instead, I made it seem as if I just wasn't happy with myself, hoping that I could manage through this calmly and without too much of a singe on either part.
Instead, I was threatened and told that they would not release me from the contract.
Now, someone else had mentioned that something similar happened to him and that he had to rewrite the entire book with different names, a new title, slight changes to the plot, etc and then publish that one. If I would go ahead and do something like this, what are the chances of me getting published with a new company(if accepted, of course.) Would the previous book - which isn't selling very well anyway because no one really seems to know about this company(it's first and foremost a ebook publisher and POD)- have a bad effect, hindering me from publishing the new version? No names or titles would be related to the previous work.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
Oh! P.S.
Would the publisher have grounds to sue me for doing something like this?
Might I also mention that even the history of the world that I created (it's fantasy) would change slightly. The titles used of the deities would change but the over-arching plot would be almost the same. The subplots would change for the most part.