THIRD COMPLAINT ABOUT Trula Breckenridge / trula.org / MSPmedia / mspmedia.net /
Futuristic Motherhood anthology / futuristicmotherhood.com /
UPDATE: Trula Breckenridge has changed her name to Trula Ione Earthgarden
See:
http://www.trula.org/2010/05/name-change-finalized/
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Subject: THIRD COMPLAINT about Trula Breckenbridge / trula.org / MSPmedia / mspmedia.net, Indie Publishing & Production , Futuristic Motherhood anthology / futuristicmotherhood.com
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:54:06 -0400
From: Angela Hoy
To:
trula@mspmedia.net,
info@futuristicmotherhood.com,
info@trula.org,
wendypalmer@iinet.net.au,
laura@digitatech.com,
BlessedGma129@aol.com
June 11, 2010
Trula Breckenridge -
trula@mspmedia.net
MSPmedia / mspmedia.net
Indie Publishing & Production
Futuristic Motherhood anthology / futuristicmotherhood.com
Trula.org -
info@trula.org
Texture Bookstore
P.O. Box 218
Elyria, OH 44036-0218
WritersWeekly.com has received ANOTHER complaint about:
Trula Breckenridge / Trula Ione Earthgarden / trula.org / MSPmedia / mspmedia.net /
Futuristic Motherhood anthology / futuristicmotherhood.com
ALSO ON:
Twitter -
http://twitter.com/Trula
MySpace -
http://www.mspmedia.net/contact/myspace.com/trula
YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/Trula
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ALLEGATION
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Hi Angela,
I submitted to Ms. Breckenridge's call for the Futuristic Motherhood
anthology back in '07. Ever since, it was been one excuse after
another. I signed the contract in May '08 which had-publication date:
August 15th 2008, payment date: August 25th 2008- Payment $100.00. Book
delivery date September 15th 2008, authors will receive 2 copies of the
book. She did not come through, nor did she respond or reply through
e-mails or post anything on her site for almost 9 or more months later.
Her excuses has been, she lost flash drives, she needs more stories, she
had to close her bookstore, the book's spine was off, and it goes on and on, the latest
excuses can be viewed on her site, and she has changed publication dates
along with the book's cover several times. However, she put out a call
for Futuristic Motherhood II, and stated that, "She'll keep the project
going for as long as there is interest," which leads me to believe the
first book has been published and sold. Not forgetting to mention that
you could pre-pay.
December 2009, she sent an e-mail stating that the book was ready and to
send updated contact information so she could pay and send the books,
which she'll have in her hand by December 7th. Here it is June, and I
had not heard or seen a thing! In the three years that this has been
going on, she could've paid an author a month, if paying and honoring
her word and business was a priority.
On her contract,it states that, "If there is any disagreement that has
to be settled in court, you will agree it will be in Ohio."
The contract states $100.00 plus 2 books of the anthology.
FB
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