To the Board of Directors of the Romance Writers of America: It has been brought to our attention, by several of our romance authors, that your organization no longer considers Medallion Press, Inc. a legitimate publisher according to your guidelines. We were surprised we did not receive official notification directly, but instead discovered it was posted on several RWA internet loops. Accordingly, we request this letter be published in its entirety in the RWR Report so all members may understand the nature of the process that eliminated Medallion as an RWA approved publisher. We will also send copies of this letter to all our own RWA member authors. We are dismayed you declared Medallion Press no longer a legitimate publisher. In July of 2004 we met all of your qualifications without incident by showing sales of 5000+ copies of USA Today Bestselling author Nan Ryan's The Last Dance. Several months prior to Book Expo America 2005, we received a call from your office alerting us to ...
I love this post! I always want to write that kind of stuff, too, but my frequently-confused MIL reads the blog (not the Spouse, he never looks at it, even though he knows about it), and she'd misconstrue something and ask him about it.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm glad you posted this.
Why, precisely, does he object to this? (Perhaps he wanted you to say a googol dollars?)
ReplyDeletenah, he doesn't get the point of blogs. Not sure I do either, but I love blogs anyway.
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ReplyDeleteI love her right back, but I still think blogging is goofy.
ReplyDelete--The Spouse