Powered by Bravenet Bravenet Blog

January 11th, 2009

10:35 AM

Feeding the fire

Some things:

  1. Does anyone know what exactly happened between Ellora's Cave and Cheyenne McCray? My understanding was that Ellora's Cave sold the print rights of this author's works without her permission and poor Ms McCray was forced to rework those books for print? And yet she continued writing bondage stories for them because it was "fun"? And St Martin's Press is publishing a trade paperback of these bondage stories under "C. McCray"? I'm not being facetious here, I'm really trying to understand what the problem is here and how Ellora's Cave has overstepped its bound if it has the contractual right to do what it wanted with Ms McCray's print rights.

    UPDATE I think I know enough details now to fill in the blanks and get the whole picture, and ouch, that really sucks for the author. Thanks to all the nice folks who filled me in!

  2. Did Connie Bailey make Ann Somerville and her Uniquely Pleasurable brigade mad and I didn't catch the resulting chaos? (See also: http://logophilos.net/blather/?p=792) Details, details, I want details! This open display of glee at someone's bad review by a fellow author seems personal. I hope that there is some juicy detail behind this, because there has to be a good reason behind this very open act of burning the bridges, right? (Bonus points for promoting your own review site in the process - talk about adding salt into the injury.)

  3. I refuse to stop using the phrase "dead tree books". It's cute, it's succinct, and it is less awkward than "print books".

  4. Woah, comments on Blog Land are getting too heated lately. Maybe it's time we pause and reflect on our greater sisterhood? Sorry, I can't find any song with such a theme, so just replace "brothers" with "sisters" in this gem:

20 user comments.