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Thursday, November 15, 2007
It is rumored that Siren Publishing has won the bid for the Triskelion contracts as listed in the bankruptcy proceedings (this list was apparently not accurate or complete). And that all the contractual rights included in the bid will be returned to the authors.
ETA: confirmation here
Labels: news, siren, Triskelion
¶ posted at 4:56 PM by Emily Veinglory 2 Comments
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Loose Id Bids on Triskelion's Contractual Assets--pepper
Headline: Loose Id Bids on Triskelion's Contractual Assets
Dateline: 11 October 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
Earlier this week, a representative of Loose Id, LLC entered a bid in the bankruptcy proceedings of Triskelion Publishing for the contractual assets of the company. If successful in their bid, Loose Id, LLC will release the majority of contracts at no cost to the authors who entered into them.
In a few cases, new contracts will be extended to the author from LooseId
in lieu of the Triskelion contracts. If an author chooses to reject the offer made them, their contract will be released by Loose Id, at no cost to the author.
Loose Id's intentions in bidding on the contracts are fourfold: (1) to facilitate the unencumbered acquisition of works offered to the company by former Triskelion authors; (2) to assist authors in securing release or reversion of rights to their work; (3) to potentially acquire and re-publish top flight manuscripts that match Loose Id's publishing guidelines; and (4) to reassure authors pursuing e-publishing careers of the sound business practices and corporate ethics of reputable e-publishers.
At this time, it is unknown whether Loose Id will succeed in its bid to acquire the Triskelion contracts. If the company is awarded the contracts, Editor in Chief Treva Harte indicates that all contracts to be released will be processed within 30 days of closing the deal and any offers of publication to be made shall be made within 60 days of close. No contract acquired by Loose Id will be held by the company against the will of the author.
Contact information: help@loose-id.com
Dateline: 11 October 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada
Earlier this week, a representative of Loose Id, LLC entered a bid in the bankruptcy proceedings of Triskelion Publishing for the contractual assets of the company. If successful in their bid, Loose Id, LLC will release the majority of contracts at no cost to the authors who entered into them.
In a few cases, new contracts will be extended to the author from LooseId
in lieu of the Triskelion contracts. If an author chooses to reject the offer made them, their contract will be released by Loose Id, at no cost to the author.
Loose Id's intentions in bidding on the contracts are fourfold: (1) to facilitate the unencumbered acquisition of works offered to the company by former Triskelion authors; (2) to assist authors in securing release or reversion of rights to their work; (3) to potentially acquire and re-publish top flight manuscripts that match Loose Id's publishing guidelines; and (4) to reassure authors pursuing e-publishing careers of the sound business practices and corporate ethics of reputable e-publishers.
At this time, it is unknown whether Loose Id will succeed in its bid to acquire the Triskelion contracts. If the company is awarded the contracts, Editor in Chief Treva Harte indicates that all contracts to be released will be processed within 30 days of closing the deal and any offers of publication to be made shall be made within 60 days of close. No contract acquired by Loose Id will be held by the company against the will of the author.
Contact information: help@loose-id.com
Labels: bankruptcy, Loose Id, Triskelion
¶ posted at 11:01 AM by Pepper Espinoza 2 Comments
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Triskelion
DearAuthor have a good summary of what is going on with the Triskelion bankruptcy. One crucial detail is that there is only about $800 in unpaid royalties on the record. I suspect more than that is outstanding and would encourage writers to pursue outstanding amounts even if they are small. Documenting the debt should be possible without incurring significant expenses. If any money is going to be recovered authors should get their fair share--and the extent of the shortfall should be made public.
DearAuthor have a good summary of what is going on with the Triskelion bankruptcy. One crucial detail is that there is only about $800 in unpaid royalties on the record. I suspect more than that is outstanding and would encourage writers to pursue outstanding amounts even if they are small. Documenting the debt should be possible without incurring significant expenses. If any money is going to be recovered authors should get their fair share--and the extent of the shortfall should be made public.Labels: Triskelion
¶ posted at 3:40 PM by Emily Veinglory 1 Comments
Saturday, June 23, 2007
RWA legal advice re Triskelion
Dear Author has put up a copy of RWA's legal advice to the authors caught up in the Triskelion bankruptcy.
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2007/06/23/triskelion-update-rwa-responds-to-triskelion-closing/
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2007/06/23/triskelion-update-rwa-responds-to-triskelion-closing/
Labels: bankruptcy, RWA, Triskelion
¶ posted at 4:25 PM by Jules Jones 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Triskelion Closing
Apparently another epublisher is going under. I've seen several emails today stating that Triskelion is going out of business. The website is supposed to stay up until July 2nd, and then it will be gone.
Labels: Triskelion
¶ posted at 2:25 PM by Amanda Young 0 Comments
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Trouble at Trisk...
There is a little smoke hovering over the Triskelion camp which is going through a transition. For more info see the lengthy post at Piers Anthony and this thread at the Absolute Write Water Cooler. Rumours suggest books that were going to print within weeks have been pulled or delayed and the print option may be withdrawn altogether.
[Edited to Add] ... and this thread at Romance Divas.
[Edited to add] On a side note it seems to me a danger of encouraging authors to pay for their own advertising is that changes in scheduling and release formats leads to authors bearing a financial cost rather than just being slightly inconvenienced?
[Edited to Add] ... and this thread at Romance Divas.
[Edited to add] On a side note it seems to me a danger of encouraging authors to pay for their own advertising is that changes in scheduling and release formats leads to authors bearing a financial cost rather than just being slightly inconvenienced?
Labels: Triskelion
¶ posted at 3:09 PM by Emily Veinglory 0 Comments
Thursday, March 01, 2007
[NEWS] Good News for Loose Id
Rumor has it that Loose Id will soon announce that they have acheived Romance Writers of America (RWA) recognition. This makes them only the second publisher on our list to acheive that status (the other being alpha-epublisher Ellora's Cave) although several others are in the process.
Edited to Add: Actually I see Loose Id is the third, Triskelion is also recognized :) see a full list of RWA recognised publishers here
Edited to Add: Actually I see Loose Id is the third, Triskelion is also recognized :) see a full list of RWA recognised publishers here
Labels: Ellora's Cave, Loose Id, news, Triskelion
¶ posted at 6:11 PM by Emily Veinglory 3 Comments
Saturday, February 17, 2007
The Sales Figure Project
Hi all!
I continue to encourage writers to email me (veingloryATgmail.com) confidentially with sales figures for erotic romance ebooks. I am particularly interested, at this time, in hearing about sales at Mardis Gras and Triskelion.
All I need to get started is first month sales--where available also first year, total to date, and sales to the end of the contract (for each book, by publisher). All figures are strictly anonymous and no names are stored in the database.
So far only a few figures are posted because although I have data for over fifty books I only post the average figures for each publisher when I have a minimum of five books by a minimum of three different authors.
I am also tracking overall average figures which will be calculated over the last 100 books reported. These give some idea of typical sales in this genre regardless of publisher--shown below. If the industry is going well (from the writer's point of view) these should be going onward and upward!
Hi all!I continue to encourage writers to email me (veingloryATgmail.com) confidentially with sales figures for erotic romance ebooks. I am particularly interested, at this time, in hearing about sales at Mardis Gras and Triskelion.
All I need to get started is first month sales--where available also first year, total to date, and sales to the end of the contract (for each book, by publisher). All figures are strictly anonymous and no names are stored in the database.
So far only a few figures are posted because although I have data for over fifty books I only post the average figures for each publisher when I have a minimum of five books by a minimum of three different authors.
I am also tracking overall average figures which will be calculated over the last 100 books reported. These give some idea of typical sales in this genre regardless of publisher--shown below. If the industry is going well (from the writer's point of view) these should be going onward and upward!
Labels: Mardis Gras, sales, Triskelion
¶ posted at 7:35 PM by Emily Veinglory 0 Comments
