More toil and trouble at Triskelion: Gail Northman has resigned, and a whole host of authors have followed suit, many asking for their rights back.
I’ll admit to feeling curious as to specifically why Northman is resigning, and to what extent the massive Internet kerfuffling has influenced her decision, but of equal interest: what are you Triskelion authors going to do/have done? Are you going to stick through this rough patch, or have you already left and asked for your rights on the way out? Anyone want offer opinions on how things came to this state?
*sighs* You bitches just went too far. Oh and shame on you, Nora Roberts.
I think we all know whose fault this is. Isn’t that right?
::Glares at Nora Roberts bobblehead, waits for the nod::
I rest my case.
Well,
Isn’t someone being a bitchyfuckypantiehead.
Or something like that.
Well, now, that is interesting, and the change from “I love Trisk and will stand by them” to “gimme my rights back!” has given me whiplash.
Because I am pathetic…
For Amy E.
It cracks me up every time I see fuckheady bitchipants. Some one needs to add that to the Urban Dictionary. Wouldn’t know how to define it myself.
In any business that is having trouble, there has to be a fall guy.
To stabalize the business in the publics eye something big had to change, what bigger change than to cut off its head and replace it with another.
May I suggest the Nora Roberts Bobblehead?
for those who havent seen the doll yet, copy/paste into your browser…
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9236/bobblehmlq4.jpg
doncha love google image searches?
I posted here a few weeks ago when the whole mess started. I asked for (and received) my rights back from Trisk due to their changes in Print decisions. All I can say now is: WHEW! Glad I got out when I did.
Any publishers out there wanna buy a sexy Victorian historical? 😉
OMG! That picture is hilarious! I have a friend who has white yorkies, and she very frequently is a Fuckheady Bitchypants herself….I may have to send her that link. 🙂
Psychic spam filter: thinking69 😀
thanks rebyj
I copied; I pasted; I yearned.
About Trisk—it didn’t fall down overnight. It’s been a long time coming. I’m not associated with the place but even I’d heard enough (months ago) to guess this might happen.
Was it something I said?
I don’t think Triskelion is ‘falling down.’ I’m a newbie author there with my first short story coming out tomorrow. Stay tuned for an official report of what exactly is going on…
Things have happened so quickly, the internet rumors started flying before Triskelion could respond.
Most authors are very satisfied there. In fact, Gail herself still will be active on some of the Triskelion Yahoo Groups. She just will no longer be published by them.
Kristin—I do hope you’re right. I’ve had two ebook publishers fold on me and it’s not a pleasant experience to suddenly find yourself “orphaned”. I hope all the Trisk authors are able to work out a solution that keeps then published.
Ooh, Charlene, that rocks! Must print out and post near my computer for inspiration…
And ditto with Kate R that this isn’t very surprising. I’ve heard concerning things regarding Trisk’s state of health for at least 2 years now. In truth, I expected them to fold long before now just due to all the displeased people talking about them. While I know nothing about Trisk’s internal workings, in my experience, the kind of smoke I kept hearing doesn’t happen without fire.
E-pubs aren’t the only ones going under. I’ve only seen this one place, so I don’t know how “so” it is, but Meisha Merlin Publishing, who’ve been bringing out the originals of the lovely Steve Miller & Sharon Lee Liaden books, as well as other mostly SF & fantasy books, is apparently going out of business.
Makes one very nervous about all sorts of things.
I’m not sure what I am supposed to post here, but Triskelion is fine. Nothing is going under. Publishing continues. The only big change is that Gail will be gone. And that was for her own personal reasons, from what I gather. Not anything due to how Triskelion operates.
They are hiring new editors to pick up the slack.
That’s about it. Nothing horrible. Triskelion is still moving right along and doing their thing.
Meisha Merlin was complaining about distribution. I don’t know how big an issue that is with epubs. However, I am heartbroken about Meisha Merlin. I used to place my order as soon as they announced a new book in certain series. I treasure my autographed copies of a number of their books.
Gail D: Meisha Merlin is indeed going out of business. Steve said on a writers’ group that he and Sharon have upcoming contracts with Baen and are selling some e-rights, so all is not lost for Liaden. They’ve also been paid in several boxes of books, so they’ll have copies of the existing books to sell in person and from their own website.
Yes, I’ve asked for my rights back, but it seems I’m not getting them all, not quite yet. So I must be doing something right, for them to want to hold on to some books!
However, I should have two series free to sell to another publisher, which is great news.
I have always said that I was at Triskelion as long as Gail Northman was, and when she left, I left.
Gail left because, as some of you so perspicaciously noted, she was under a lot of strain and close to burnout, due to the hard work she was doing for Triskelion.
The blog explosion had nothing to do with it, really. That had pretty much blown over by then. Today Triskelion, tomorrow the new RWA PAN requirement discussion.
That, take it or leave it, is the truth.
For myself, it was partly a business decision. I had just about maxed my audience at Triskelion. While it is great being your company’s best-seller, you have to start asking yourself if you should take things a bit further. Added to which, after I attended RT and won the Paranormal Romance Eppie this year, I had quite a fair bit of interest from other places. So I would probably have at least eased my relationship with Triskelion down a little in the year to come. But if Gail hadn’t left, I would have still been there, confident that she would have continued to grow the company as much as she has for the past two years. But her resignation forced my decsion (as it has some others) and I asked to quit, although some of my books will be there for some time yet.
I won’t be sending Triskelion any more submissions.
What is left is the core of a good publishing company. Stripped down, with a lot of new, enthusiastic writers it is where it was a couple of years ago. New management, or rather, the return of the old.
I don’t have any complaints about the way I was treated at Triskelion, except for the management of the print program. My book, along with others, was pulled from the schedule at short notice.
Hey, all
I’m not going to post about the politics or decisions… I just wanted to clarify something after reading a post.
**Most authors are very satisfied there. In fact, Gail herself still will be active on some of the Triskelion Yahoo Groups. She just will no longer be published by them.**
Just wanted to clarify here that the Gail Kristin is referring to is me… :-)… not Gail Northman. We confused a lot of people – both being Gail – Both being editors, etc. But I’m Gail the author… and yes, I chose t remove my books when Gail (the editor) left.
That’s all. 🙂