COMPLAINT about Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com / Angela Bassuet / Florida Gulf Coast Brides / floridagulfcoastbrides.com / White Sand Publishing
From: "Angela Hoy" <angie@booklocker.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:34 PM
To:
publisher@floridagulfcoastbrides.com,
contact@floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Subject: SPAM-MED: COMPLAINT about Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com / Angela Bassuet / Florida Gulf Coast Brides / floridagulfcoastbrides.com
February 23, 2010
Angela Bassuet, Publisher -
publisher@floridagulfcoastbrides.com /
contact@floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com
Florida Gulf Coast Brides / Florida Gulf Coast Weddings Magazine /
floridagulfcoastbrides.com/
611 A Ft Harrison, Suite 139
Clearwater, FL 33756
Weddings Florida
White Sand Publishing
P(727)953-9174
WritersWeekly.com has received a complaint about:
Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com / Angela Bassuet / Florida
Gulf Coast Brides / floridagulfcoastbrides.com / White Sand Publishing
ON FACEBOOK:
WEDDINGS FLORIDA MAGAZINE
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70833771965
Angela Bassuet
http://www.facebook.com/people/Angela-B ... 1419393522
ON LINKEDIN:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/angela-bassuet/12/4b4/68a
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THE COMPLAINT
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LM (name not published here but was, of course, provided to the publisher)
alleges you owe her $1500.
See allegation below my signature.
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ALLEGATION
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: filing a client complaint
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:51:04 -0500
From: LM
Dear Angela,
I was very pleased to hear about your website, and appreciate all your
efforts to help freelance writers. I'm writing now to file a client
complaint.
Last December I did editorial work for a woman named Angela Bassuet who
publishes a wedding magazine in Florida called Weddings Florida. Her
company is called White Sand Publishing. I edited the entire magazine,
and wrote a few short pieces for it. She owes me $1500 for this work. I
invoiced her two months ago. I emailed her a few times about payment
after a month had passed, and got a message saying she was waiting to be
paid by an agency. Two months passed, and when I phoned her (this was
three days ago) she hung up on me. I have since left messages and email,
and she refuses to respond. She seemed very happy with my work, and
though I did have to set some boundaries with her (she called me
incessantly and I suggested we communicate only via email) it seemed
that we were able to find enough common ground to put out a magazine.
She has postings on Facebook and her website about the new magazine, and
is basically passing off my and other writers' work as her own. At least
two of the other writers have not been paid as well.
I did draft an initial contract, which I signed and sent to her;
however, despite repeated requests, she never returned it to me.
I have cut and pasted some of our correspondence here; please let me
know if you need more.
Sincerely,
LM
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PUBLISHER RESPONDS
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: COMPLAINT about Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com /
Angela Bassuet / Florida Gulf Coast Brides / floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:44:48 -0500
From:
publisher@wedflorida.com
To: Angela Hoy
Hi Angela,
The magazine came out mid January. Everyone gets paid within 60 days
after the magazine publishes. The magazine receives payments from it
advertising agencies within 60 days after publishing. No one here in the
office has ever hung up on anyone and everyone that has ever worked for
us has always been paid.
I am technically the editor of the magazine, but I give credit to
(LM) because the magazine could not be as polished
without her talents. She is greatly valued and I am sorry she is worried
about getting paid. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
//Angela Bassuet
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WRITERSWEEKLY RESPONDS
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: COMPLAINT about Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com / Angela Bassuet / Florida Gulf Coast Brides / floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:08:44 -0500
From: Angela Hoy
To:
publisher@wedflorida.com,
publisher@floridagulfcoastbrides.com,
contact@floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Hi Angela,
We received your response but it doesn't make any sense because previous
emails you sent to the writer in January promised payment was going out
"soon" and "now." Copies are below my signature.
Angela Hoy
WritersWeekly.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *publisher@floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Date: Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: checking in
To: LM
I am working on it. We get paid now, so all of the agencies pay us when
the mag comes out. The magazine is gorgeous. The Four Seasons in Miami
might do a launch party for us.
//Angela Bassuet
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*From*: LM
*Sent*: Saturday, January 09, 2010 11:35 AM
*To*:
publisher@floridagulfcoastbrides.com
*Subject*: Re: checking in
Great -- look forward to seeing it.
How about checks for hard-working editors? :)
Best,
LM
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From: *publisher@floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Subject: re: checking in
To: LM
I have the magazines now, have been in Miami on biz all week.... so I
will send you a copy. Checks for writers should go out soon.
//Angela Bassuet
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PUBLISHER RESPONDS
Subject: Re: COMPLAINT about Weddings Florida Magazine / wedflorida.com
/ Angela Bassuet / Florida Gulf Coast Brides / floridagulfcoastbrides.com
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:17:50 -0500
From:
contact@wedflorida.com <contact@wedflorida.com>
Reply-To:
contact@wedflorida.com
To: Angela Hoy
This was in my spam folder and we are moving our office this week, so
sorry I am just getting back to you.
We pay all of our freelancers and sometimes the agencies are slow paying
us. Everyone has "always" been paid and within 60 days.
The writers will get their payments soon.
Angela
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