anna410.bsky.social
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What they’re trying to do is gaslight us that it’s impossible to pay this money back.
They invested our stolen money in a project that probably won’t earn out. They put it on a horse. They gambled it. We didn’t give them permission to do that.
It’s not impossible to make this right. Pay it back.
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Analysis by @weownit.org.uk found that 31% of water bills go to shareholders and creditors.
In other words, every September you stop paying for the cost of the water system and start paying for private investors to make a profit.
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Yorkshire Bedtime Tea? I haven't done a proper several-week test of efficacy though, I just have it when I fancy a pre-bed cuppa.
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It’s very hard to write a book
Know what’s not hard?
Having a bank account separate from your operating funds for your royalties owed funds
some might even call it a basic standard operating practice
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(Other side note: does Boundless think it still has the rights to my book? I dunno! Have they sent me a new contract? lmao of course not!)
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Anyway, late last night/early this AM, Boundless CEO Archna Sharma sends out a lengthy email which boils down to “lol soz we said we’d pay you but ACTUALLY Boundless doesn’t HAVE to pay you so we’re not going to pay ANY royalties owed to Unbound because we’re a different company now”
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Unbound sent out royalty statements for the first half of 2024. Yay, I was owed about $5,000. This would be great. 30 days came and went, then 60. No money. No comms.
Finally Unbound are like “Whoops! No money, also we didn’t keep our author royalties in a separate account, we spent them. Soz!”
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They owe me about £75,000 and never made a single one of their scheduled repayments.
My US books are all a sublicense of my Unbound deal, so all US royalties went to them, for them to take a cut and then deliver the rest to me. They collected 18 months from Penguin Random House and gave me $0.
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Thats some fucked up shit.
I dont undestand how they can "transfer" the assest and contracts of one company to another without taking on the debt obligation. Even on paper that screams fuckery.
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Yesterday I should have received the remainder of my owed overdue royalties, but did not.
I chased up Boundless, and got an email that boiled down to the following.
"We can't afford the other half of the repayment".
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The TLDR as I understand - the company expected an incoming investment for a magazine project, took money out the author royalties account to pre spend the investment, the investment fell through, author money can't be repaid by investment.
That's my good faith understanding of those events.
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In late November 2024 I was owed close to £7,000 in royalties for book sales by Unbound. That payment did not surface.
In early December, it was made clear Unbound had fucked up majorly, they could not afford to pay author royalties.
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On Nielsen Bookscan’s database, the author of my book was entered as:
Joel Morris
I had no previous publications. I was a new, unproven author.
On the database under “Morris, Joel”? All my bestselling books.
Unbound had detached me from my sales history. So nobody ordered my book in.
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I mean, I’m boring myself by banging this drum, but almost every university in this country employs more people than British Steel, and the fact that Labour refuses to recognise that is simply intentional ignorance at this point.
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Again - we really should right now be talking about drink & drug driving, how it's not just young lads who do it, how yes, sometimes it IS a white father of 3 with a middle class job doing it, how it kills and maims at an astonishing rate and how we, through both law and peer pressure, stop it.
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I’m still trying to figure out which part of Microsoft decided I need to receive an email whenever a colleague somehow Reacts to my email as if it were a Chat message
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You mean a day cruise or a big cruise? Cos Royal Caribbean is one of the sponsors and has run several themed cruises for the past few years. But for whatever reason they don't seem to actually advertise them at all (as far as I've seen), so hardly anyone knows about them.
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Re-posting from 2 weeks ago? 😬