*Well*.

[mizkit]

I am Ms. Spammy Poster today, but this is News of Significance, so I'm writing about it even though I have Very Little Idea what it means, mostly.

There's just been email from Harlequin regarding the Bombshell imprint. To wit, that the imprint has been cancelled as of January 2007. (It's not performing well enough, in short.)

You know that big

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[pers1stence]

Since you had three under contract, does that mean you'd gotten an advance on any of them that you have to give back? Is there some remuneration in store for you since they're the ones that backed out of the contract, not you? Or is it more of a "no harm, no foul" sort of thing?

[mizkit]

See the part that says "I know nothing else on this topic yet"...? :)

I won't have to give any money back. Beyond that, I don't know yet.

[dancinghorse]

You may get paid for the first one.

I felt the same way when LUNA shut me off: "Thank god! I was dying out here!" Shocked my agent, who was pretty upset--but when you're overbooked and then they pay you not to write the book that was breaking your poor quivering hump, hey, party time!

[mizkit]

*grin* Yeah, pretty much. It'll be interesting to see what comes of it; getting paid would be great, obviously, but if that doesn't happen, well, at least I haven't already written it. :)

[dancinghorse]

Ayup. I'm being paid to not write the first book in the new series. I was going to start it, like, this week, so that was a nice dodging of bullet.

I feel bad for authors left with full or partial mss. they can't sell, authors with series cut off before the end, and (worst of all) authors who never even got a book in print from the line at all, just whack! gone.

As for me, I got paid a fat chunk o' change I don't have to pay back, and I'll sell it somewhere else in somewhat altered form and make double. Works for me. It's a terribly cavalier attitude, I suppose, but this is a business. Pick up the check, pull up your socks, and carry on is my motto.

[mizkit]

I am very, *very* glad that PHOENIX is on for a December publication. I'd have been really disappointed if that trilogy hadn't been completed, and yeah, I feel for writers who are getting cut off mid-story. I got lucky, there.

I'm hoping there might be a "sell it somewhere else in somewhat altered form" opportunity for me somewhere along the line here, but I haven't even talked to der agent yet, so I have no idea what sock-pulling-up might be available. And for the moment, I still have plenty much to do and the question of repackaging stuff is one to Not Worry About just now. :)

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