“My designer wants to charge me all over again for work she already did because…”

“Now I’m wondering why she didn’t tell me that before the work was started, and finished!”
“Now I’m wondering why she didn’t tell me that before the work was started, and finished!”
Check out the weird stuff Angela dug up this week!
“My mom wrote 3 books, and published them through Tate Publishing and the royalties were to go to my children but…”
We are often asked why we can’t offer our publishing services for free. After all, the publisher gets some money each time a book sells, right?
I did a crowdfunding campaign, and already had an artist design the cover of my book, and the inside of it, too.
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“No-one opens these packages, nor replies to the emails, even if these come directly from publishers…”
I know it’s tempting. Like a lottery ticket…except FAR more expensive in the end!
She said she didn’t yet know who to leave her intellectual property to but that she knew who NOT to leave it to…
Email from an author: “I am planning to send the whole manuscript to another editor because the prior one failed in doing a proper job…”