Soooo….
…Is Venus Press really trying to relaunch?
Surely it would have been a better idea to open up under a different name, with the current name being so tainted and all?
Thanks to KS for the heads up.
Posted by Karen Scott · 10 Comments »
10 piped up to “Soooo….”
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theo
Posted: Feb 17th, 2009 at 10:59 pm1Tainted? Sorry, I don’t know the background.
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Marianne LaCroix
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 at 12:00 am2Tainted? Sorry, I don’t know the background
And thus why relaunching won’t hurt them. Many people don’t remember how the owner deserted the company…and their authors.
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Kate
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 at 12:22 am3I find this page really interesting: http://venuspress.com/Employment.htm. Anyone remember if the positions were such when they closed? The grammar is rather strange, much like I’d think a non-native English speaker would have.
I wonder if the old owner sold the company, because I can’t imagine she’d truly think she’d succeed now after falling off the face of the earth and leaving the poor authors and staff in such a lurch 2 years ago.
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Annmarie Ortega
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 at 2:51 am4The Venus Press author loop and reader loop on Yahoo were never deleted after they went under. Pretty convenient that they already have a reader group.
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Shiloh Walker
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 at 4:01 am5File this under… THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMM….
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Fae
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 at 5:33 am6The marketing director must know how to use a phone, y’all. High standards with this one, obviously. Darn, there goes my chance to snag a marketing position, I never did learn how to work those newfangled phone contraptions.
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JulieLeto
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 at 5:03 pm7I counted FIVE major grammar/wrong word choices on this page…and I wasn’t even looking for them very closely.
Anyone who submits to this place is asking for trouble, IMO.
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Anon76
Posted: Feb 19th, 2009 at 2:55 pm8Hmmm. Verra odd sounding employment page. Lots of typos, or created by someone not overly familiar with English.
Also, I wonder how many of those places listed under “Friends of Venus Press” still wish to be listed there. Interesting.
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Posted: Oct 30th, 2009 at 8:22 pm9Marianne LaCroix » Blog Archive » Venus Press…revisited? Or is it Deborah Taylor revisited?[...] Looks like Deborah (Taylor) Lynne (The Dragon Laird) is gearing up to reopen Venus Press. Yep, that’s right, Venus Press. Unbelievable. Courtesy of Karen Knows…ALL [...]
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Candy
Posted: Jan 9th, 2010 at 8:23 am10I was getting ready to submit a book to Romance Design. When you copy their submission link…it comes up Venus Press. Thank goodness I found your discussion and remembered it before I hit the send key!
Thanks!
Candy
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