tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404036170106001374.post8379972086049199927..comments2024-03-18T04:40:38.214-05:00Comments on Murderous Musings: Is this Ethical?Chester Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07155257451021065218noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404036170106001374.post-40894477371848061102012-08-07T05:31:41.686-05:002012-08-07T05:31:41.686-05:00I don't think there's any debate about it....I don't think there's any debate about it. As you say, Beth, she took money and didn't supply the goods the publisher 'bought' with it. However smart she thinks she is, however hard she portrays herself as the 'little-person-versus-conglomerates', however unsympathetic her publisher, she's the loser here. I don't think it's clever to gift the moral high ground to a publisher.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07675643113010061969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404036170106001374.post-50592301457142851332012-08-05T11:39:59.908-05:002012-08-05T11:39:59.908-05:00I would have returned the advance and found anothe...I would have returned the advance and found another publisher, or self-published the book myself, which I've done in the past. Word gets around of an author's unethical practices and she'll soon be unofficially blacklisted.<br />She may get away with keeping the money but she shot herself in the literary foot.Jean Henry Meadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08146960738692672013noreply@blogger.com