Notices by Marquis de Geek (marquisdegeek@ohai.social)

Dr Who forums: "Polish! Polish!"

Me: How did they know the cleaner robot was made in Poland?

#homographs #capitonyms #wordplay #drwho #DoctorWho

p.p.s. What this means, AFAICS, is that the new company buys the good stuff from the old company for £1 (i.e. our rights), whilst leaving the debts (i.e. our royalties) to get written off via administration

ps. No morals. No learnings. Had I filed suit earlier, it might have distracted them from genuine recovery work, and more writers would have lost money. Had I not filed, they might still be selling the dream. But since they launched a new magazine while we were all waiting on royalties, I don't feel bad about playing my part in their downfall. (As Spike Milligan might have said!)

A few weeks ago, I escalated my case to the County Court. Today, they sent an email saying "We will shortly be announcing that Unbound (United Authors Publishing Limited) has gone into Administration." In short - they took my royalties, paid themselves, ran, and started a new company to absolve themselves of the responsibilities and the debt.

Guess what? The same people are in charge!

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Unlocked: I might have accidentally destroyed an entire publishing house!

At the end of 2023 I released a book "20 GOTO 10" via the publisher Unbound. (4.4 stars on Amazon!) It sold tens of thousands of copies, and yet, I was not paid for any of them. I waited. Politely emailed. Looked past their emails of "any day now" and waited some more.

Last year, I filed a legal case. The week after, they sent an email to all their authors claiming "issues" with payment.

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The event I've been planning, since ages ago, has been cancelled due to the weather.

It's the right decision - it's just disappointing.

So the work doesn't go to waste, do any local organisations in #Cambridge want a #magic show on Saturday morning/afternoon? ;)

@Linux Which email service(s) can you recommend, that don't result in messages finding their way into spam, because they don't have secret 'trust only gmail' flag?