Some EC news…
Tuesday, October 4, 2016Posted in: Azteclady Speaks
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler
Go over here to read the post, if you are interested.
Posted in: Azteclady Speaks
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler
Posted in: Azteclady Speaks
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler
Do you know the difference between…
Saturday, June 11, 2016Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, Torquere Press LLC
(update at the end)
Torquere Press LLC and Ellora’s Cave? (now, stupidly enough, “EC for Books”–because nothing says “publishing empire” like a generic, forgettable name, hemorrhaging authors, and piss poor service)
No?
Well, the former are not only amateurs in the ‘let’s not pay royalties and give trite, tired, unbelievable excuses for that’ field. They are also criminally stupid–as in, ‘let’s write a fraudulent check for those royalties, see if that’ll shut the unpaid authors up!”
Say what you will about Jaid give-readers-the-finger-I-despise-romance-professional-victim Black, she’s too cunning for that.
She’ll just never write checks for those royalties and other bills.
Update: Julia Talbot, former owner of Torquere, has her say on this mess (as of today, only dog knows what’s next)
Compare and contrast 2.0
Saturday, February 27, 2016Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler
Oh my good lord, can Jaid Black be any more delusional?
Yet another update – EC v DA
Thursday, December 10, 2015Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler
Brief comments, some numbers, and a couple of links in the comments, here.
Also, I recommend checking out this post at Zenobia Renquist’s blog. I hope she continues to update with more links–I’ve seen at least two more requests in that vein by EC authors.
EC v DA: it’s over–for Dear Author and Jane Litte/Jen Frederick
Saturday, October 24, 2015Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, Jane Litte aka Jen Frederick, lawsuit
Ellora’s Cave settled with Dear Author and Jane Litte, on the defamation suit the former brought against the latter.
The suit, you may remember, came about because Ellora’s Cave’s principals didn’t much like the fact that The Curious Case of Ellora’s Cave put together, cohesively and succinctly, the many bits of evidence, statements, and rumors, that have been hinting at deeply troubling going-ons at the company for the last decade or so.
I have thoughts on this, and go on and on about them here.
Good luck to all the many authors who are still owed royalties, and to those who only want to finally be free of their contracts with Ellora’s Cave.
EC v DA: I now direct your attention to…
Friday, August 21, 2015Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:#notchilled, Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, Jane Litte aka Jen Frederick, lawsuit
Things have been quiet on this issue for months. Basically, litigation in the US moves at the speed of frozen molasses, and a lot of the minor stuff that does happen does not get filed, so this was not unexpected.
What was rather a surprise is to have Ann Jacobs, one of EC authors who’s stated that there are hinky goings on with the publisher, to file a motion to intervene in the EC v DA lawsuit, and a counterclaim to EC’s defamation suit. Please note that EC’s contract is part of this longer document. All sorts of interesting shit in there.
Courtney Milan is hosting both filings, and has posted a brief, yet pointed, update on the case, here.
Deirdre Saoirse Moen’s take is here.
Now I have a helluva lot of rather interesting stuff to read before I post anything more.
Pot, meet the ugly kettle
Friday, June 12, 2015Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Jaid Black aka Tina Engler
For a number of years now, I have loosely followed the “poor me, I’m a victim of discrimination” act that is Jaid Black.
By this I mean, I notice when things reach my ears/eyes during my usual online rounds; I don’t spend a lot of time hunting comments down, I don’t follow her in any social media platform, and I don’t go looking for things said about her.
Frankly, I do have better things to do with my time.
Every so often, however, I’ll see commentary about how whenever there’s a dust up at or around Ellora’s Cave, Jaid Black has a health crisis.
Which is reminiscent of what has happened with any number of epublishers behaving badly, right around the time the implosions begin. (You are free to extrapolate at will, by the way.)
It was all quiet, then Anne Rice opened her mouth
Sunday, March 8, 2015Posted in: Anne Rice, Authors behaving like twits, Azteclady Speaks
Tags:Anne Rice, Dear Author, Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, Jane Litte aka Jen Frederick, lawsuit
Many of our readers are aware of Anne Rice’s increasingly strange behaviour, claiming that she doesn’t need an editor, that readers who write negative reviews hate her, sending her fanboys and girls to attack a blogger because she dared use pages of her book Pandora (after writing a fairly negative review of it) for a craft project, and over all being a huge drama queen with a large platform and little common sense.
Ms Rice, not content with the fact that her opinion is sought less and less often, is not shy about sharing it as loudly as she can.
Today I was made aware that while posting that she ‘knows nothing and has no opinion,’ in truth Anne Rice is chiding anyone speaking in support of DA or JL, and claiming that EC will have its day in court. Funny, I thought it was the people accused who had their day in court to prove their innocence. Further, I thought that in defamation cases, is the people doing the accusing who have to prove there is defamation.
Still, not surprised to see Anne Rice talking out of her ass again. It’s become her schtick, yes?
EC v DA shenanigans and filings
Wednesday, February 25, 2015Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Courtney Milan, Dear Author, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, lawsuit, Tina Engler
Deirdre Saoirse Moen has a number of recent posts on the amazingly tasteless behaviour of Ellora’s Cave principals and staff.
Check out Double Entry Divas and The Sunken Queen for more.
The Defense filed its objection to TiNut’s motion to quash the subpoena, and Courtney Milan explains both that and what the gag order meant for the parties, here.
Calling people formerly associated with Ellora’s Cave…
Tuesday, February 24, 2015Posted in: Azteclady Speaks, E-publishers Behaving Very Badly
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, Tina Engler
If you were at some point in the past associated in any way with Ellora’s Cave and happened to download a copy the video I describe below, please contact Ms Deirdre Saoirse Moen as soon as you possibly can.
The video:
I Heard That Dear Author Was Getting Sued, So I Thought I’d Remind Everybody That Tina Engler Married A Convicted Murderer
Sunday, September 28, 2014Posted in: Assholic Epublishers, Batshit Crazy, Elloras Cave, Fuckwits in Blogland, Tina Engler AKA Jaid Black
Tags:Elloras Cave, Jaid Black aka Tina Engler, lawsuit, Publishers to avoid, Tina Engler
Elloras Cave get worse and worse. What fuckery is this?
The following was originally posted on KKB on June 15th 2007: Here’s the link.
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JaynieR posted an interview with Tina Engler, AKA Jaid Black on her blog earlier today.
The purpose of the interview appears to be two-fold. Firstly, it seems to be an opportunity for Black to give her side of the story, in terms of her marriage to a *convicted felon, (if the link is broken, search for a David Roy Keen) serving time for shooting, and killing an ex-girlfriend; and secondly, to discuss her feelings, on the failings of the current U.S penal system, and its bias towards the poor, and the uneducated.
Ms Black’s decision to marry a prisoner, serving a life sentence for murder is her affair, and I feel that it would be remiss of me to publicly comment on my personal feelings relating to this matter.
In actual fact, what disturbed me most was Black’s assertion that locking up prisoners is tantamount to human trafficking, and that a person who deliberately takes a life, cannot be blamed for their actions.
When one reads the interview in its entirety, the delivery of her message is staunch, and unflinching, whilst her belief that she speaks a universal truth, appears to be unshakable. (more…)
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