Dear Author analyses Triskelion bankruptcy filing

[julesjones]

More from the romance blog Dear Author about the Triskelion bankruptcy. If you're a Triskelion author, you need to read this. But it's also worth your time simply as a case study if you're involved in small press, especially epublishing. Jane analyses the bankruptcy filing, and digs out some interesting information. The comments are worth reading as well, particularly the description of a publisher behaving badly towards authors who decided that they wanted out.

The Triskelion mess is an excellent example of why you should do your homework before submitting to a publisher. It won't guarantee you don't get caught up in something like this, but it will improve your chances of avoiding a publisher with trouble brewing. December Quinn has an excellent series of blog posts about finding the right publisher:

http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2007/06/find-right-publisher-part-one.html
http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2007/06/find-right-publisher-part-two.html
http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2007/06/find-right-publisher-part-three.html
http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2007/07/find-right-publisher-part-four.html
http://decemberquinn.blogspot.com/2007/07/find-right-publisher-part-five.html

You also want to check out Emily Veinglory's guest post at Dionne Galace's blog, about the wide range of sales figures within epublishing:
http://dionnegalace.com/wordpress/2007/07/30/guest-author-emily-veinglory/

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Through those links I ended up at http://www.hipiers.com/publishing.html (Piers Anthony's site) which is one long listing of e-publishers.

Very, *very* depressing reading: fees, low royalties, soliciting anything that could possibly be called a book, not answering questions, out of business.

And that's just the letter 'A' :-(