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I’m very glad that you (and others) are finally dropping Ridan. It has really felt like they’ve been screwing over their authors for a long time now. It might not turn out pretty, but Ridan deserves all the crap that will be thrown their way over the internet.
Nate, I totally agree with Tony. Now you can take control of your destiny and steer it into another (and better) star system.
Ann Crispan’s books are still available on Ridan’s web store the links you mentioned work for me so they have done nothing to take them down
And Captain this was way overdue I can only imagine what a pain it is but its for the best you will be in control of your own ship and be able to move on. I’m sure Ridan wasn’t expecting Ann Crispan’s Public announcement and that the whole community knows about it now. What I wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall at New York Comic Con where the sullivan’s will be speaking on a self publish panel there is mention that several will confront them from the audience.
Bet the S’s don’t show at New York Comic Con——R, especially, appears to be of the ostrich variety, i.e. head in sand, to manage problems. Only makes it worse, but maybe the only way she knows to handle things. The whole thing is beyond managing at this point. Apologies will not do it with money owed, etc.
Just looked up the circumstances. That’s almost frightening. Hopefully you and the others involved can take this as a spring-board to better things.
It’s horrible that Ridan has so completely messed up. I am very worried, based on Ann Crispin’s Facebook post, that Nathan and other authors may not have been paid for so very long, and might get screwed out of earnings they are already due. :/
My wife asked me whether you could buy the rights to the current cover art and/or hire the guy who did the current cover art to do covers for the remaining books … but given how disastrously bad things have got, I imagine you would be in no hurry to get in to any further contracts with him or his wife.
It’s really a shame that it’s gotten to this. What a mess. On the one hand, we wanted to give the benefit of the doubt (especially with R’s family stuff going on) but it looks like what started as some missed deadlines spiraled into a total disaster. As you say, the fix is relatively simple, send cheques and apologise and start to make things right…
It seems like instead of dealing with the problems, they let them get worse and then went into denial mode. I also wonder what knock on effect this will have on M’s career, surely if for no other reason they should have been trying to get things straightened out purely to avoid any ill will directed at him?
At least now that things are starting to happen, people will be able to get back their stuff and what they’re owed and move on. With luck it wont cause much more disruption to the various author’s businesses/careers.
I was wondering about that actually, Nate, do we need to do something like a Sigler style chart rush when the books go back up on amazon? Will they loose ranking, links to also boughts, reviews etc? To what extent do they go up as essentially ‘new’ books?
At the very least, we could do a lot by all going and reviewing the new publications of the books on Amazon when they go up, if they lose the reviews left so far.