The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Sharon Maas:

I recieved this info from a present-day PA employee:

"Employees are now required to sign non-disclosure agreements when they are hired. They aren't provided copies, of course, which makes knowing what can/should be said hard to discern from will-get-sued if said."

This is fascinating stuff.
Right now I am creating a website for Crack of Death and I'd like to dedicate a page to PA employees and ex-employees. I wonder if you'd allow me to publish some of the above on that page? If you'd like to discuss it please mail mne at sw.maas at gmail.com

Not to mention:

"The last he wanted today was a trip to the crooner’s office."

Oh yes, Skippoo's chapter is priceless.
I love this bit:

All of a sudden Garry felt really protective over this pet-eat young girl who looked like a Cindy doll except with a pear-cede lip. He had to protect her no matter what it cost.
‘Nancy’ he said. ‘You’ve got to get away from Roberto. You don’t know what you’ve got yourself into. Your in grave danger. Tell her Lav!’
‘True, t’ings rough out deh, you know, Rasta.’ said Laverne flashing his gold tooth.
‘It’s true Nancy.’ Whispered Garry with a furrowed brow.
‘Yes alright dad. Just ask me your fucking questions and let me go home damn it!’
Garry turned to Laverne. ‘Lav can you get the suitcase.’
Laverne left the small dark room his dread locks swinging vilently behind him.
They were alone.
Garry sighed and stared at Nancy tenderly. ‘I want to help you Nancy. I’m on your side.’
For a split second Nancy could see the truth in his icey pear-sing blue eyes. Garry was a good man she could tell, but how could Roberto be a lying drug barren? She’d seen the pain in his eyes when he’d talked about his sick mother. Roberto where are you?


Sharon (Editor)

And Scott Pack, whom they quote in The Sunday Project information, used to be THE most influential man in the British Publishing scene as head of Waterstones.
Seems to be an all-British thing.

AM Heath used to be my agents. They are a very reputable agency, one of the oldest in London, with several bestselling authors, and are very keen on getting authors before other agencies using scouts and the like.

To quote from JamesC's post:

"...I say this because there has never been any official agreement between Mr. Wagner and JC-Hosting that he was turning over this account to Ms. Glatzer but that is just one infraction of our original agreement. Which by the way means that Mr. Wagner could request that all the software data bases and anything else tied to this account be given over to him (including all the legal issues that will be tacked along with the expenses) or I could just delete the entire site as an abandoned account (well I am a cold hearted business man but not that cold hearted yet). "

The last words do give me hope.

Jackie Kessler,
on writers.net there's a very long thread about Barbara Bauer, but it's about three pages in, called "Writers site brought down" or something like that (I can't get in either.)
Somebody on that thread is even trying to speak up for Barbara Bauer - some loser who was once banned from AW, and has an axe to grind.

Aconite, I absolutely agree with you. BB could have hollered and foamed at the mouth all she wanted, but finally it was Stephanie and Co who destroyed AW. If there was a sincere bone in that woman's body surely she could have found a more benign alternative.
The fact that in this very week she has created an alternative forum speaks of AW's destruction as an intentionally malicious act, and though I long to see the Barbara Bauers of the world brought down let's not forget that who actually pulled the plug.
Never underestimate the power of a couple thousand writers with keyboards and modems!

I am sure, though, that AW will return bigger and stronger than ever before. Ha! Did she really think we'd all sail over to her silly Ersatz forum? Our home is with Jenna, and there we'll stay.

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