Re: RWA's latest

--- In [email protected], Chris Smith <smith@...> wrote:

> == Subsidy => requiring the author to pay costs associated with 
> editing, production or publishing of the work.
> 
> == Not subsidy => requiring the author to pay costs associated 
> with the creation (the actual writing) of the work.

And this is a key issue.  As it happens I am strongly in support of 
self- and co-operative publishing.  I run a blog called 'POD People' 
the reviewed self-published work and am working on a post on my 
romance blog about the advantages for authors of working in a co-op 
like Alinar Publishing.

However it is a widely used and not unreasonable defintion that if 
the author pays money for anything beyond the stamp or internet 
connect that sends the manuscript to the press, that crosses the line 
from third party to subsidy.  And if RWA does not accept subsidy and 
they define it along those lines--well maybe that is their 
prerogative.  There's a whole lot of other stuff they don;t accept 
either and there's a pointed to stop banging on the door and accept 
it isn' the club for you, I think?

I should probably clarify that by saying I wasn' sure whether Tsaba 
was vanity of not I didn' mean I didn' know wether they were 'crap' 
or not.  I don' see vanity/subsidy/self as a derogatory term and I 
think vanity is the term RWA uses.  I *do* think presses should be as 
clear as possibel about exactly what they are and I am frustrated 
that this doesn't seem to be happening.  I also do think that self 
and co-op published works should be allegable for prizes and judged 
on their merits but RWA is hardly the only game in town to exclude 
them.

That's my 2c anyway.  It seems to me that communications on both 
sides have been muddled and even appear emotional and obfuscatory at 
times.  If Tsaba charge the author, they charge the author.  RWA (a 
group with which I happen to have huge issues) get to use any overt 
and not clearly insane definition that they want to, surely?


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