Comments | cleolinda: Wicked Pretty Update #6: The Canceling

cleolinda

Wicked Pretty Update #6: The Canceling

Apr 11, 2011 12:49

@lisamantchev: Just got an email from Constable & Robinson... official word that WICKED PRETTY THINGS has been canceled.

(Recap: the absolute nutshell version.)

Earlier this morning, prior to that announcement, Jim C. Hines also made an offer to pay $100 for any of the WPT authors' anthology stories and post them on his blog, with donations/ ( Read more... )

down with this sort of thing, publishing, appropriate responses to bad situations, books, shenanigans

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ceilidh_ann April 11 2011, 18:08:25 UTC

The cancellation was inevitable but I'm glad it happened. There was no way it could have continued on, not after everything that happened ( ... )

agentclaudia April 11 2011, 18:12:29 UTC

Okay, if this is true, now I feel bad for Ms. Telep.

cleolinda April 11 2011, 18:24:59 UTC

On one hand, if she made that call, to take all the blame (and she did it in such a carefree manner that I'm not sure she knew how much she was really taking on, and what the consequences would be), that's what she said, and we're really second-guessing at this point. I mean, I want to make that clear up front. But the email I got is also nearing whistle-blower territory, and you start to understand why she might have consciously taken the blame for it, and that maybe this possibility needs to be considered.

I don't know. I think I'm kind of uncomfortable no matter which option I choose, posting it or not posting it.

cat_eyed_fox April 11 2011, 18:15:04 UTC

I was worried that something like this was the cause. Just based on the ambiguous language in the contract it doesn't surprise me that Trish might have been operating under just enough information to make these assumptions, and I think that might have been the point. If nothing happens then everyone's happy, but if an editor steps over an author's line and goes public the publishers have the might shield of Plausible Deniablity. "We didn't say that! She made that decision on her own!"

soleta_nf April 11 2011, 18:30:22 UTC

Hmm. Sounds a lot like my last job.

cat_eyed_fox April 12 2011, 02:51:14 UTC

Doesn't it just? Most of us have situations like this in our past because it's a toxic environment. My current job is starting to sound an awful lot like this too.

soleta_nf April 12 2011, 03:00:46 UTC

I'm sorry to hear that. :( It's a really crappy place to be.

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soleta_nf April 11 2011, 18:26:36 UTC

I'm very glad this hot mess is being cancelled.

I'm also very glad that more context is coming out about Telep and the publisher. It seemed too simple to put all the blame on her.

Thanks so much, Cleo, for keeping us informed and updated. You, as always, are awesome. :)

cleolinda April 11 2011, 18:30:41 UTC

Just as a note, I've gone back and switched from first names to surnames (or full names) in the interest of clarity.