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 By Argile Stox Apr. 27, 2006 Well, yesterday I received a certified letter from PublishAmerica stating that they are no longer producing in my book and that all rights have been returned to me, as per my request. As per my request, my left toenail! I have been requesting to be released from my contract for almost one year. First, they ignored my e-mail communications regarding releasing me from my contract due to poor sales. I would send them an e-mail communication every month citing poor sales. Then, last month PublishAmerica sent a letter with a contract addendum that was a gag order. I promptly crossed out the addendum gag order to the contract and sent it right back to them. PublishAmerica responded with words like “confidentiality issues, the original contract,” etc. I was not going to take this lying down, so I sent them in an e-mail completely annihilating their issues and requesting that my contract be canceled. Then, to my surprise PublishAmerica de-listed my book from their inventories. I had read on numerous message boards that concern themselves with the issues of PublishAmerica that many other individuals have had their books de-listed from that the inventories as well. I also read that about a week following the de-listing of the books from PublishAmerica‘s inventories, the author would get a certified letter in the mail stating that their contracts were null and avoid –and all rights were returned to the author – without a gag order. I am not a suspicious person and I do not feel that there are people out there in this world whose mission is to do me harm. When I realized that my book was de-listed from PublishAmerica‘s inventories –I thought that they were pulling my chain. Many of my colleagues whose books had been de-listed told me not to worry, that the termination of the contract will be mailed to me by certified mail in about a week. Well guess what? Five days after my book was de-listed from PublishAmerica‘s inventories, I received by certified mail a letter that stated that my book was no longer being produced by PublishAmerica, and that all rights were returned to me. Immediately, I advised everyone on all the message boards that concern themselves with PublishAmerica issues, that my contract was canceled. Within about an hour, message boards contained congratulatory messages and best wishes for the future. The individuals on these message boards stuck by Tracy and me for the past year as we were battling PublishAmerica to cancel contracts. Tracy’s three book contracts were canceled by PublishAmerica last month. We could not figure out why PublishAmerica was holding my book hostage. Then, without comment from PublishAmerica via e-mail –my book was de-listed from their inventories. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who it is associated with U-K who may have written e-mails or snail mail letters to PublishAmerica on my behalf, to have my contract canceled and all rights return to me. I also want to thank the Editor of U-K for publishing my rants and raves about PublishAmerica on this web site. I would like to make it known that when you write a column on U-K, good things do happen. So what is next on my agenda? To tell you the truth –I have not the slightest idea. I do know one thing, that delayed stress concerning this PublishAmerica issue will hit me like a ton of bricks, soon. Already, the discs in my back are complaining very loudly, again. My energy level is very low. I am still fighting the Veterans Administration to perform a quite necessary operation to remove two herniated discs, bone spurs, and repair my degenerative back disease. Every day, I take a handful of pills to keep my heart going and relieve the pain in my back. After a while, my body builds up a tolerance to the pain medication and I have to increase the doses to relieve the constant searing pain in my back. It happens every month, I run out of medication and I have to wait about a week and a half for the Veterans Administration to send out refills. I had called my local pharmacy to ask if a certain prescription could be refilled there, instead of waiting for the refills. The pharmacist called up the Veterans Administration and the reply was, “Absolutely not! The patient will have to wait about a week and a half until he receives refills.” Currently, I am using over the counter pain relievers to take the edge off the constant pain in my back. The over the counter pain relievers allow me to move from the bed, to the couch, and downstairs to work on the computer. I cannot do anything else. It really aggravates me that I cannot even lift up a plastic bag filled with garbage to take it out to the trash can. It also annoys me that I have to strain in agony to fill a bowl with dog food and place it on the ground. There are many other complaints I have, however, this forum is rated “G” for general audiences. Well, this is Argile Stox (former PublishAmerica author) signing off, for now… ------------ Email Argile Stox: argilestox@gmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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