COMPLAINT - Full House Publications / Cherokee Family Mag

[angelahoy]

COMPLAINT about Full House Publications / fullhousepubs.com / Cherokee Family Magazine / CherokeeFamily.com / Forsyth Family Magazine / North Fulton Family
Magazine / James Watson / Kelly Watson

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: COMPLAINT about Full House Publications / Cherokee Family Magazine / James and Kelly Watson / et. al.
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:58 -0500
From: angela at booklocker <angela@booklocker.com>
To: james@cherokeefamily.com, watsoncj3@msn.com, publisher@cherokeefamily.com, editor@fullhousepubs.com

November 12, 2008

Full House Publications / fullhousepubs.com / Cherokee Family Magazine /
CherokeeFamily.com / Forsyth Family Magazine / North Fulton Family
James Watson, Editor - james@cherokeefamily.com, watsoncj3@msn.com
Kelly Watson, Editor - publisher@cherokeefamily.com,
editor@fullhousepubs.com
Centralia Presbyterian Church
4625 Centralia Road
Chester, VA 23831
P(678)921-4160, ext. 701
F(678)921-4160

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600 Preston Glen, #206
Canton, GA 30114
P(678)493-0028

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WritersWeekly.com has received a complaint about:
Full House Publications / fullhousepubs.com / Cherokee Family /
CherokeeFamily.com / Forsyth Family Magazine / North Fulton Family
Magazine / James Watson / Kelly Watson

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Your firm has been submitted to us for inclusion in the
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Step one of our investigation of this report is to gather all
relevant correspondence between your publication and the person
submitting the complaint so that we can piece together that person's
side of the story. Step one of our investigation has been completed.

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THE COMPLAINT
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JB (name not published here but was, of course, provided to the publisher) alleges you've owed her $250.00 for a year now. She also alleges you continue to use her material without permission (this would be a violation of federal copyright law).

See complete allegation under my signature.

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
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***All correspondence for our investigations must be in writing and
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If you do owe this person money, we strongly suggest you read
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Our report on your firm is scheduled for inclusion in our
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Warnings forum before that time.

If there is no response to these allegations, WritersWeekly.com will
still publish this complaint, but our readers will not be able to
read your side of the story.

We appreciate your prompt response in this matter.

Angela Hoy
Publisher
WritersWeekly.com

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ALLEGATION
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From: [JB]
Date: November 5, 2008 3:08:20 PM EST

A regional parenting magazine has owed me money ($250) for a year now,
acknowledges it, but says times are tough and they can't afford to pay me. They also owe another person that does work for them $800.

Thanks,

[JB]

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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:40:40 -0700
From: [JB]

Hi Angela,

I will forward the e-mail exchange I
had with the editor right after I send this message. For kicks I decided
to look at his current issue online and by golly he is using yet another
one of my articles. He actually has the audacity to keep using reprints
of mine (that were sent to him months ago) even though he hasn't paid me
for previous work used. His debt goes back to January 2008 when the
first invoice for it all was created. You can see my article being used
in his July issue on page 15 here: (link removed by WritersWeekly).

At this point they owe $250. Most of my attempts to follow up have been
completely ignored. The message I'm going to send to you was a response
I FINALLY received.

Thanks.

[JB]

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: payment follow-up/reminder
From: "James Watson" <james@cherokeefamily.com>
Date: Tue, September 30, 2008 3:54 pm
To: [JB]

[JB],
sorry for the delay. we are working hard to collect ourselves and be able
to pay our writers. this market has kept people from paying us and
therefore we can not pay. Our ARs are incredible. The fall is starting a
recovery for the year. I will look forward to paying you soon.

I do understand not getting paid and it is frustrating. I am sorry,
we will
take care of this as soon as possible.

James

James Watson
Publisher
Cherokee Family Magazine
678-921-4160 x701

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On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, [JB] wrote:

Hi James and Kelly,

I'm resending this again because I sent it on 8/16 and didn't get a
response.... Then I followed up again on 8/30 and didn't get a response.
Now I'm following up again and hoping to get a response this time.

If I continue to get no response and no payment I will have to send this
to collections. Please send payment asap to avoid this. Right
now your account is owing $250, with $210 very overdue. I'm sure you all
appreciate when your advertisers pay their bills, just as I would
appreciate you paying yours.

Thank you,

[JB]

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PUBLISHER RESPONDS (but doesn't offer to remove material that wasn't authorized and doesn't provide expected payment date!)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: COMPLAINT about Full House Publications / Cherokee Family
Magazine / James and Kelly Watson / et. al.
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:19:21 -0500
From: James Watson <james@cherokeefamily.com>

Angela,

Thank you for your thoroughness on this complaint. [JB] has a
legitimate complaint. We are working hard to solve the problem. Thanks
again for your work on behalf of writers.

James