[New-Poetry] Trouble with presses?

[Beverly Rainbolt]

Really! One time an editor tried to put titties on my work and I said no way
what do you think I am some kind of boob!!

Oh, wait. Nevermind.

B

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:32 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> The editor's decision to put titles on her work was beyond the pale.
>
> As a publisher of few poetry books, I always paid for a copy editor
> to comb thru the ms and review the proof.  (Those of you who have
> read my posts realize how much help I need in this area.) Hiring a
> copy editory is a minimal cost compared to the production costs,
> and it's wortth every penny. Even if the author decides
> to 'stet' some of the suggested corrections, there are always
> a few corrections he/she is grateful for, and often a couple of
> major saves (of face).
> Finnegan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amy king <amyhappens at yahoo.com>
> To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views <
> new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Sent: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 7:10 pm
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Trouble with presses?
>
>    Anyone experience similar difficulties?
>
>  Consider an excerpt from the account of Stacey Lynn Brown
> (
> http://staceylynnbrown.blogspot.com/2008/07/less-than-auspicious-debut.html
> ):
>
> "Anyway, back to my story. Everything was hunky dory with this press,
> though I was a little surprised and disappointed that I didn't get one
> single editorial suggestion from the editor and, in fact, that I had to do
> the majority of both my own editing as well as the editing for the book as a
> whole. At last count, I had found and corrected 32 errors–only 3 of which
> were mine. The other errors were ones made by the editor–jagged margins,
> dropped italics, misspelled words. But I didn't mind doing the editing.
> After all, this was my book, and I wanted it to be right…
>
> But it gets even better.
>
> The letter went on to say that even though they had "revoked" the book
> award and were not publishing the book, the publishing contract was still
> valid and in effect and that they owned the rights to my book in all its
> formats. In order for me to get my rights back, I had to repay them the
> $1000 prize money I had been given as well as give them the $200 they had
> spent acquiring the cover art for a book THEY were choosing not to publish.
>
> In short, they were breaching the contract, refusing to publish my book,
> and holding the rights to my own work hostage."
>
> And Brown's nightmare with Cider Press Review continues here:
>
>
> http://staceylynnbrown.blogspot.com/2008/07/less-than-auspicious-debut.html
> http://staceylynnbrown.blogspot.com/2008/07/less-than-auspicious-debut.html
> http://staceylynnbrown.blogspot.com/2008/07/less-than-auspicious-debut.html
>
>
>
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