Also of note was their declaration our shared program of sending documents back and forth was now a “safe space” and I was not to share more documents or contact them about projects through our shared project system. I was currently writing a story in THEIR fictional setting.
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Then I heard about @NickColeBooks and learned how much worse publishers can be. Look up his story about Harper Collins attempting to smother his career to assuage the rage of an editor who took personal offense to a story detail in a non-political fiction novel they asked him for
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Authors shouldn’t trust publishers. Treat them as hostile agents. Big and small, they take control of your projects. There are a few out there who act in good faith. A very small, precious few. But you surrender nearly total control in exchange for paying your publishing costs.
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I used to feel bad about all the rejection letters but as the publishing industry's toxicity has become more known I'm glad I was kept out of it.
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Badge of honor.
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See my thread about Google as a publisher. Publishers are evil, and that goes for some music publishing houses too:https://twitter.com/theannoyedman/status/1143177920216801282?s=21 …
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