She must be completely unstable. What else could it be?
I wonder if she gets money for every book as the creator of the series? I mean, at the VERY LEAST she should get that. If she doesn't then she should sue her agent and the publisher.
Can anybody think of a case where an author is fired from her own series? Without it being read? If it didn't sell then they wouldn't publish it. I get that. But with a TV show on the air? And without it being read? She must be a nightmare to work with. I can't fathom why they wouldn't even read it except that they had the rights to the series itself (and the right to continue the series without her at their discretion, even using a ghostwriter! They can use her name without her being involved at their discretion! Crazy!), knew she was impossible to work with (be it her personality or the quality of her work), and had to look out for the bottom line. The fact that they have the rights to all that? That at some point she signed over the series rights? Should lead to a lawsuit with her agent and/or lawyer. They simply were not protecting her at all.
ETA: Oh!!! I get it. It's not her series. She was hired to write books by Alloy, a book packaging company (I used to think I wanted to do that kind of work).
I wonder if she gets money for every book as the creator of the series? I mean, at the VERY LEAST she should get that. If she doesn't then she should sue her agent and the publisher.
Can anybody think of a case where an author is fired from her own series? Without it being read? If it didn't sell then they wouldn't publish it. I get that. But with a TV show on the air? And without it being read? She must be a nightmare to work with. I can't fathom why they wouldn't even read it except that they had the rights to the series itself (and the right to continue the series without her at their discretion, even using a ghostwriter! They can use her name without her being involved at their discretion! Crazy!), knew she was impossible to work with (be it her personality or the quality of her work), and had to look out for the bottom line. The fact that they have the rights to all that? That at some point she signed over the series rights? Should lead to a lawsuit with her agent and/or lawyer. They simply were not protecting her at all.
ETA: Oh!!! I get it. It's not her series. She was hired to write books by Alloy, a book packaging company (I used to think I wanted to do that kind of work).
You might wonder why the book packager and Harper would do this to me. I am not sure either, but usually a book packager gets very submissive, non-assertive writers to write for them—not to mention that most of them, writers or ghostwriters, have had a lot of publishers turn their books down. Book packagers are used to do a lot of editing on their author’s books—because the books need intense editing.
But I’m not submissive, and I always fight editing. In Midnight, I had to fight to keep many Bonnie scenes in the book. I’m not at all sure they liked the things I was doing with Bonnie and Damon—they kept trying to cut such scenes. And of course they didn’t like Elena’s behavior at all. They want strictly Stelena books.
So last fall when I gave them the book Phantom, they didn’t bother to give me edits. Instead, I was given a letter addressed to the ghostwriter by name, telling her to completely rewrite my book. They wouldn’t even listen when I pleaded and promised to do Phantom as they required. The simply took the series and gave it to the ghostwriter . . . to write not only The Hunters trilogy, but whatever comes after that.
But I’m not submissive, and I always fight editing. In Midnight, I had to fight to keep many Bonnie scenes in the book. I’m not at all sure they liked the things I was doing with Bonnie and Damon—they kept trying to cut such scenes. And of course they didn’t like Elena’s behavior at all. They want strictly Stelena books.
So last fall when I gave them the book Phantom, they didn’t bother to give me edits. Instead, I was given a letter addressed to the ghostwriter by name, telling her to completely rewrite my book. They wouldn’t even listen when I pleaded and promised to do Phantom as they required. The simply took the series and gave it to the ghostwriter . . . to write not only The Hunters trilogy, but whatever comes after that.
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