[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

Night Shade Books, who've apparently been less than fair in their dealings with some of their authors lately. I suppose those particular books have been removed from the catalogue due to that.

As I understand it, Nightshade placed its financial affairs in the hands of someone who proved untrustworthy, looted the till, and decamped leaving them holding the bag. It put them in a position where they couldn't do things like pay authors money owed them, and Liz was one who got burnt.

I believe they have settled accounts with Liz and personally apologized. The main complaint about Nightshade at this point seems to be that they should have come clean about what happened to them and what they intended to do to fix it earlier than they did. "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity."

I met the Nightshade proprietors at the Tor party at LACon IV, and was able to thank them for publishing Liz. They seemed quite committed to publishing quality work, but they are a small publisher. As such they are under capitalized, and things like that can be a much bigger problem than they would be for a bigger, better heeled outfit.
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Dennis