Jun 29, 2008 12:10
With hard work and persistence, Michael Armstrong, Capo, and the rest of Griefcom have helped me with a nasty recalcitrant-publisher problem. I am very, very grateful.
Neither I nor my agent could get any response better than f-o-a-d (in properly concealed verbiage) from them. If I had had to hire a lawyer, I think they would have just waited me out till I had no more money.
I've belonged to SFWA for my entire adult life -- since 1969 (with a short hissy-fit hiatus) -- and twice the organization has wrestled a publisher to the mat for me, in circumstances that gave me essentially 0 chance of solving the problem on my own.
Thanks to Griefcom, to Capo, and especially to Michael Armstrong, for help above and beyond the call of duty (which I would have appreciated no matter what the outcome), and for success.
Vonda
griefcom