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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ghostwind" data-source="post: 2100619" data-attributes="member: 3060">There is a joke that runs through the industry that you are not a veteran freelancer until you are owed money by a publisher for more than a year and have at least one book that never saw the light of day because the project was "delayed indefinitely" (translation: the publisher shut down operations). Your woes are not uncommon in this industry, but to put this in perspective, for every one story like yours, a publisher has 10 just like it telling of freelancers stiffing them.  Good freelancers who can write on spec and hit a deadline are hard to find right now when you consider that most companies aren't exactly paying premium wage (many are down to .01 or .02 per word). Your rant is clearly one of frustration and, from the sounds of it, inexperience. Do you have written and signed contracts for this work you've done and never been paid for? Has your unpublished material actually been purchased (again, a signed contract) or has the publisher merely given you a verbable "we want it?" If it is the latter case and the agreement is verbable, then you still own the rights to the work. I would email the unnamed publisher and request that you be allowed to take back the work and shop it to another publisher who is more willing to publish it. There are steps you can take, but only if all of your ducks are in a row. And, it would help if we knew who you were upset with. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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