Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Maybe I should have said something...

Most of you will remember that at the beginning of the year, Sam's Dot Publishing was taken over by White Cat Publishing.  It was only a couple of months later that I left Sam's Dot.  At the time, I said that it was because I wanted more time with my family, and more time for writing.  There was some truth to that, but it wasn't the whole truth.  In actuality, I wasn't getting paid on time, I wasn't getting information on when titles would be published, and authors and other editors weren't getting paid at all.  I decided to take the high road at the time, and not discuss it openly, but I'm now seeing that another round of editors has quit for many of the same reasons, and the authors still aren't getting paid.
When I was with Sam's Dot and ProMart, we always made the writers a priority, and now I feel like maybe I should have said something when I left in the hope that some of the writers who are now going through hell with White Cat wouldn't have had to go through that hell.  I feel like I owed it to those authors, and now I'm sorry that I didn't give them a warning about the things I saw going on.
I hope that those authors will find homes for their work, and I also hope that White Cat will someday learn how to treat their editors and writers, but in all honesty, I'm not hopeful for the latter.  Considering that it would seem that we were all intentionally purged because we knew Tyree is quite ridiculous.  The publisher had a fully trained editorial staff in place, and could have been quite successful, but I guess that was never going to happen...


2 comments:

Kara Hartz said...

It's a shame to hear things like this, but sadly, not so uncommon. Sam's Dot publications gave me my first and second paid fiction sales (short stories) and confidence to keep at this writing thing. It will always have a place in my heart for that.

D. Moonfire said...

I'll admit, things seemed strange with the rapid dispersal after SDP/WC. Tyree doesn't say much, much like you did, but I was curious how the various magazines moved away from WC and back to you and Tyree.

A more passive-aggressive way would be to send an email to Writer's Beware, though that pretty much is firing a shot over the bow.