Boy, Does It Ever Suck Not Getting Paid!

[Mark]

Sad news. I have an idea, though, and have sent you and email, John.

 

[Nikosandros]

Are the fellows running the company destitute? Can't they take $120 out of their pockets and pay John?

 

[dmccoy1693]

Sorry to hear this John. I was really hoping that you'd come back and say, "Hey guys, I got paid." You, sir, have demonstrated a real feat of patience and restraint. I still hope you get paid.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Hell, I'd pay John $120 bucks just to get it into the OGC wiki.

 

[Napftor]

This is a shame as I had heard good things about Dog Soul in the past. I had good (if brief) dealings with them when they produced their Katrina charity pdf but then that didn't involve any money of course. Best of luck getting your money, John, and thumbs up from this publisher for your elegant perseverance.

 

[Klaus]

I'm sad things went this way, John (and it was a real fun making that cover). Deb and Sean have been off the radar even at CircvsMaximvs, and last I heard Deb herself didn't get paid for a layout job she did for a d20 publisher.

 

[seankreynolds]

John, you could always self-publish this. It's easy to get a Word doc looking the way you want and turn it into a PDF. It's your work, and if you finished it there's no reason why you shouldn't publish it (on your own or with another company). And given that the series' name is based on your name, you should be able to continue with the name, or (if you're really concerned about them snarking you) change the name just a little bit.

I assume this is all OGC? You could even republish the finished volumes under your own product name, or compile them all into one big PDF when you're done.

 

[Joshua Randall]

I find it somehow appropriate that the name of the company is Dog Soul.

Although actually, even dogs have better souls than these deadbeat thieves, now that I think about it.

 

[Rafael Ceurdepyr]

So, for the record, the "company in question" I've been referring to over the course of this thread is Dog Soul Publishing.

Well, I have to come out with a "Me, too." I haven't been paid anything for Books of Faith: Hinduism from them. I did get some payments for Sahasra and Sahasra: The Spirit in the Spice Groves, but the last one was about a year ago. I've been very disappointed by this, as the books looked good with nice cover art. And they were nice people to work with.

Except for the whole not getting paid part.

 

[HinterWelt]

John, You do not know me but I will offer to render your files to PDFs if that would help. I hate to see this kind of thing happen to freelancers.

Let me know if I can help and good luck,
Bill