Our site may be offline this weekend, most likely on Sunday, as we host a private wrestling match with a few of our favorite parts of the site, and see who wins. I’m backing the Jell-o wrestling team, but I think Candy may be backing the team that fights using a mixture of ghee and olive oil. Either way, if you stop by and we’re not here, fear not. We’ll be back.
Christine Brashear, currently at Samhain Publishing and a 5% shareholder in Ellora’s Cave, has filed civil suit against Ellora’s Cave, Tina Engler/Jaid Black, Patricia Marks, and various affiliated individuals and companies.
To read the 19-page PDF of the civil suit filed in Summit County, Ohio, last week, you can search by Last name or you can download your own copy here. Brashear’s complaint asks for “damages and injunctions for breach of contract; breach of statutory and common law duties, breach of fiduciary duties and defamation.”
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For those of you who don’t know yet, our new front page has big, big news.
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As of 1 April 2008, erotica publisher Dark Eden Press will close its doors.
In an email marked for forwarding and sent to the EPIC groups, owner Debra Durham announced that due to personal health reasons, her publishing house will be shutting down. Her email details the specific reasons why, and also outlines her plan of action for bringing her business to a close.
All of you deserve an owner who is going to be here, who is able to get the things done that need to be done. I don’t want my authors trying to figure out why I haven’t answered emails for a couple of days, or why royalties are late, or wondering when the things that need to be taken care of are going to get done, when the reality is that I will be too sick to do it.
I will spend the next two weeks preparing letters to release your book rights to you, doing March royalties, and closing the readers group. I will then begin shutting down all the DEP email addresses except for my own and forwarding all mail from that to my personal email address. By May 1st, I would hope all payments have cleared the bank, and on that date I will also close the author group.
Best wishes to Ms. Durham for a speedy and complete recovery.
Two years ago, Smart Bitches launched a GoogleBomb against Bill Napoli, after his comments about the appropriate circumstances under which an abortion might be performed. Our goal, to make Napoli the new Santorum, is still in effect. If you google Bill Napoli, our definition still the #1 result.
We backed the campaign of Teresa Spry, who challenged him in late 2006, and though she lost her race, we did interview her about her candidacy. Our efforts raised about $800 for her campaign, our first and only foray into political fund raising.
Napoli held on to his seat, and today I received some good news in my inbox from South Dakotan Wonder Woman Lori Armstrong. It seems that Bill Napoli will not be running for re-election.
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People already named some of my favorites (Dr.Suess, Ronald Dahl, Shel Silverstein) but noticed a few missing:
Wayside Stories
The Bernstein Bears (I think I learned morality from those suckers)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear,…
I love the Sandra Boynton books. I’ll add Each Peach Pear Plum and The Hungry Caterpillar which I don’t think have been mentioned.
For older kids, Roald Dahl, Anne of Green Gables and Edith Nesbit.
mac: no worries. I really do see where you’re coming from too. And no, I’m an Aries. ah, but for the grace of a couple of months… :)
Suze: thanks for the link (it worked).
Thanks…
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be. That’s what came to mind as soon as I read your post and I see I’m not the only one. I gave…
The Littel Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR by Don and Audrey Wood was one of my favorites, and my son loves it now, too. We still have my old copy from the 80s!
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