Some Ellora’s Cave authors have been reporting that, indeed, they have received royalties from Ellora’s Cave recently. Yay. Except that some of those same authors are reporting they have notable inaccuracies. Update 11/18: Color me surprised–I received a check from EC today for Mar-Jun royalties, an amount in line with my expectations. #notchilled — Robin […]
Ellora’s Cave: We’ve Heard This Before
First: if Tina’s email comes to pass, it will mean Ellora’s Cave authors will be getting paid. My commentary follows Tina’s email. From: theeternaltubthumper Date: Nov 6, 2015 1:33 AM Subject: [ec_biz] royalty info I wanted to let everyone know to expect a check for March-June (hopefully!) before Christmas!! 🙂 Checks have resumed going out […]
Ellora’s Cave: Some pubnt Trick-or-Treat
As much as @pubnt made us tear our virtual hair out on #notchilled, there were some really (unintentionally) hilarious assertions. Here are a few of my favorites. Claiming to be a legal blogger (and law student) …yet failing Courtney Milan’s 1L test. Claiming Ellora’s Cave was in “merger” talks with a big 5 publisher. Asserting […]
Ellora’s Cave: Dear Author/Jane Litte Case Settled
Today there’s big news in this year-plus long defamation case: plaintiffs Ellora’s Cave and Defendants Dear Author and Jane Litte have settled. In an email to EC’s biz loop, Ellora’s Cave CEO Patty Marks said: From: patty@ellorascave.com [ec_biz] Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:50 AM Subject: [ec_biz] Settlement with Dear Author We are pleased […]
Ellora’s Cave: So Who(‘s) Left?
Authors Who Reverted Between Sep 2014-Sep 2015 Based on screen scrapes taken of Ellora’s Cave author page on September 24, 2014 and September 29th, 2015. So, it’s as accurate as that data is. Boldfaced means the author has been an author of either a NY Times or USA Today bestseller. Note that some unknown percentage […]
Laurann Dohner Announces New Self-Published Series
Yesterday, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Laurann Dohner said she’d have some news today. Today, she posted the news: she has one book completed and another in progress, both to be released in December. The really big news happens in the first and second comment: For the visually impaired, Valerie asked: Will […]
Ellora’s Cave: Recent New York Times Bestsellers
Let’s look at the last few years of New York Times Bestsellers for which Ellora’s Cave is the publisher. So near as I can tell, the only author that’s hit the list with a book published by EC since February 2011 is Laurann Dohner. NYT List Date Book Title E-Book List Rank 1/15/12 Brawn 35 […]
Calling Current and Former Ellora’s Cave Authors
Are you an Ellora’s Cave Writer who: asked for your rights back as a response to this Jaid Black post (August 12, 2014)? For context, that would be the week before the editor (and other) layoffs, before the Curious article by Jane Litte, and before the lawsuit. If so, Dear Author’s defense would like to […]
Ellora’s Cave: RWA Addition to Dear Author Motion
Some more action on the Ellora’s Cave vs. Dear Author case filed in court over the last couple of weeks: Motion to add RWA Executive Director’s Statement to Defense’s Summary Judgment Motion Ann Jacobs as Counterclaimant—additional documents filed by, well, everyone Motion for Further Discovery filed by Dear Author Court hearing scheduled for October 8 […]
Ellora’s Cave: An Interesting USDOT Finding
This was an interesting Google find that you can locate by searching on: USDOT Ellora’s Cave and clicking on the fmcsa.dot.gov link on the first page. The “OOS” (Out of Service) category column has an entry which states: New Entrant Revoked – Refusal of Audit/No Contact and the “OOS Date” (Out of Service Date) is […]