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My name is Steve Savile. To date I have been a runner up in the British Fantasy Society Awards, on the ballot for the Bram Stoker Award and recently won the Writers of the Future Award. I am currently part of the committee formed by the Horror Writers Association to regulate complaints about publishing houses. I am not and have never been a writer with Crystal Dreams. Neither am I David, the long time force behind Preditors and Editors, nor alas am I capitalistwriter. Nor am I Victoria, or Sybil.
I am not ashamed of who I am, nor am I afriad of the wrath of Crystal Dreams. I have a lot of information about Crystal Dreams partially due to my long standing friendship with one of their authors. More information has come my way since this ugly situation raised its head.
I have been stunned by the level of unprofessionalism exhibited by Crystal Dreams.
I have a lot of evidence that provides a picture of a company I would strongly recommend no writer ever touch, even with the proverbial barge pole. I am willing to post the author unfriendly contract here. I have seen too many companies use weaselling excuses to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. To claim to an author's representative that the request of a registered letter have been done, immediately upon receipt, which have not been done, then to simultaneously blame it upon a glitch in the database on a static webpage and on the fact that (as contradictory as it is) that the web manager tripped over his dog and has concussion and so must never have done the things Miller claims were done, many times, whilst wrestling with database glitches etc, well, the more excuses made the more they trip over themselves.
I am also willing to post every one of Mr. Miller's missives with their contradictions and patent unprofessionalism - I don't feel particularly intimidated by the secrecy demand placed on the bottom of the emails. I am also happy to discuss very openly the fact that when one Crystal Dreams author arranged an interview and feature on SFFWORLD where I was a staff writer Mark Hauser proceeded to deflect conversation toward his own books and promote himself instead of the original writer who had arranged the interview and feature. That is not an assistant editor I would like on my side.
Sir States the Obvious might have taken two minutes to investigate who I was, who David is, and realised that yet again the valiant defence of Crystal Dreams has fallen into the hands of idiots.
I am personally delighted that more Crystal Dreams authors have chosen to post their experiences with this company, because, and lets be honest here, 80% of the Crystal Dreams author roster are also part of the management team. So the fact that 3 Crystal Dreams authors have spoken up means that less than half of the authors that aren't part of the management team are content with the intricate web of incompetence Crystal Dreams management are busily weaving around themselves.
Steve
Still Steve - not David. Not Anonymous... Not anyone but myself.
My name is Steve Savile. To date I have been a runner up in the British Fantasy Society Awards, on the ballot for the Bram Stoker Award and recently won the Writers of the Future Award. I am currently part of the committee formed by the Horror Writers Association to regulate complaints about publishing houses. I am not and have never been a writer with Crystal Dreams. Neither am I David, the long time force behind Preditors and Editors, nor alas am I capitalistwriter. Nor am I Victoria, or Sybil.
I am not ashamed of who I am, nor am I afriad of the wrath of Crystal Dreams. I have a lot of information about Crystal Dreams partially due to my long standing friendship with one of their authors. More information has come my way since this ugly situation raised its head.
I have been stunned by the level of unprofessionalism exhibited by Crystal Dreams.
I have a lot of evidence that provides a picture of a company I would strongly recommend no writer ever touch, even with the proverbial barge pole. I am willing to post the author unfriendly contract here. I have seen too many companies use weaselling excuses to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. To claim to an author's representative that the request of a registered letter have been done, immediately upon receipt, which have not been done, then to simultaneously blame it upon a glitch in the database on a static webpage and on the fact that (as contradictory as it is) that the web manager tripped over his dog and has concussion and so must never have done the things Miller claims were done, many times, whilst wrestling with database glitches etc, well, the more excuses made the more they trip over themselves.
I am also willing to post every one of Mr. Miller's missives with their contradictions and patent unprofessionalism - I don't feel particularly intimidated by the secrecy demand placed on the bottom of the emails. I am also happy to discuss very openly the fact that when one Crystal Dreams author arranged an interview and feature on SFFWORLD where I was a staff writer Mark Hauser proceeded to deflect conversation toward his own books and promote himself instead of the original writer who had arranged the interview and feature. That is not an assistant editor I would like on my side.
Sir States the Obvious might have taken two minutes to investigate who I was, who David is, and realised that yet again the valiant defence of Crystal Dreams has fallen into the hands of idiots.
I am personally delighted that more Crystal Dreams authors have chosen to post their experiences with this company, because, and lets be honest here, 80% of the Crystal Dreams author roster are also part of the management team. So the fact that 3 Crystal Dreams authors have spoken up means that less than half of the authors that aren't part of the management team are content with the intricate web of incompetence Crystal Dreams management are busily weaving around themselves.
Steve
Still Steve - not David. Not Anonymous... Not anyone but myself.
