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Thorns
Robert Silverberg
In a world where humanity has colonized the solar system and begun to explore more of the local galaxy, a vast audience follows real-life stories presented by wealthy media mogul, Duncan Chalk. Chalk feeds ...
Hot Sky at Midnight
Robert Silverberg
Several decades into the future, a long series of corporate and government decisions has left the Earth in a state of disaster, almost uninhabitable. The icecaps have melted. The ozone layer is destroyed. A few...
Kingdoms of the Wall
Robert Silverberg
The village of Jespodar nestles in the foothills of a world-dominating mountain known to all as "The Wall." Poilar Crookleg has grown up in Jespodar training hard and hoping that he will be chosen for the annua...
Tower of Glass
Robert Silverberg
Simeon Krug is a self-made man, fantastically wealthy, having built a huge fortune with his android "products," genetically-engineered human slaves who worship him as a God. Krug epitomizes self-aggrandizement,...
Clan Ground
Clare Bell
With her mastery over fire—known as “the Red Tongue”—Ratha now leads the Named, a clan of sentient, prehistoric big cats with their own language, traditions, and law. But, her control becomes threat...
Jerusalem
Cecelia Holland
Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomine Tuo da gloriam. “Not to us, O Lord, but to Your Name give glory.” This motto highlights the vows of chastity and humility taken by the Knights Templar. But, it als...
The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost
John Bellairs
On a trip to Florida with his father, Johnny Dixon visits a fortuneteller, and receives an eerie premonition. Inside the crystal ball Johnny sees a ghost-white face with long white hair and black eyes like p...
The Totems of Abydos
John Norman
In a far future, two anthropologists, gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naive Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes, of a sort no longer welcome on ...
Those Gentle Voices
John Norman
THOSE GENTLE VOICES A Promethean Romance of the Spaceways
"Because it's there..." That was why Earth men climbed Mt. Everest and why, in 2017, they set out for the distant star, Wolf 359. In 1988, they ha...
Jovian
Don Moffitt
Like all human colonists born into the crushing gravity of Jupiter, Jarls Anders commands tremendous physical strength and survival ability. And, like his fellow Jovians, Jarls has grown up innocent, easy to e...
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Tarnsman of Gor
John Norman
Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. One frost...
Always Leave 'Em Dying
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and sex and violence on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs...
Highland Conqueror
Hannah Howell
Lady Jolene Gerard is running out of time--each moment she remains within the walls of Drumwich Castle she is in jeopardy. Her only chance lies with a prisoner chained to the dungeon walls, a Scotsman who, in ...
Stage Door Canteen
Maggie Davis
New York City, the capital of the free world, is dark, its lights turned off as enemy submarines lurk offshore, as close as Coney Island. Three men--a gunner from a B-17 bomber who‘s a national hero, a magaz...
Kampus
James Gunn
The college of the future has just one purpose: endless battle. Political organizations urge ruthless combat with an invisible opponent and each student is challenged to be more extreme than the rest. One ma...
Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse
Kaleb Nation
What if your mother was a criminal? What if her crime was magic? What if magic ran in the family?
Bran Hambric was found alone in a locked bank vault when he was six years old. He doesn't have a clue ho...
The Book of Kells
R.A. MacAvoy
An unusual and original work of fantasy from the acclaimed author of Tea with the Black Dragon.A contemporary man, John Thornburn (a meek, non-violent and unpredictable artist) and woman, Derval (his tough,...
Demon Knight
Dave Duncan
The Scottish outlaw Toby Strangerson, known as Longdirk, has used gramarye, dark magic, to defeat the Fiend and save Europe from abject slavery--but he has also made himself the most feared and envied man ...
Cinderfella
Linda Winstead Jones
As Stuart Haley grew older, year by year, he worried more and more about the security of his famous Cattle fortune. He had raised his daughters in the lap of luxury--they wanted for nothing--and all three g...
War Surf
M. M. Buckner
What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death?
You’d invent a thrill sport…
"An Innovative and exciting read. A treat."
– C.J. Cherryh...
Song of Kali
Dan Simmons
Blood will curdle in Calcutta! In the most crime-ridden city, nightmares become real and evil is defined by frightening occurrences. When an American family finds themselves encircled by the terrors of this ...
Sounding
Hank Searls
"He had a brain biologically identical to man’s but seven times its weight and volume," writes Hank Searls of a massive, aging sperm whale whose compassion, fear, and anger at man’s attacks on his kind dri...
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Dorchester Publishing Names New CEO With an Eye to the Future
NEW YORK, New York (November 16, 2010) – Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc., founded in 1971, and what was until this year the oldest independent mass-market publisher in the U.S., has changed leadership in its mission to revitalize Dorchester and blaze a path as an exciting independent digital and trade publisher of genre fiction.
Taking over the role of Dorchester’s CEO will be Mr. Robert Anthony, current CFO & COO of Backe Digital Brand Marketing, who brings with him more than 25 years of experience in financial and operations management. Prior to his time at Backe Marketing, Anthony was the president of The Blue Sky Financial Group, which provides business consulting services on operational strategies and business development. As a CPA he has worked in public accounting, gaining exposure to a wide variety of business models, and he was the controller for one of the largest investment management organizations in the United States, Federated Investors, where he held an integral role in the planning, restructuring, development and growth of that company.
“My first goal with Dorchester is to reorganize and improve the accounting and internal financial reporting structure. This will include a complete review of the royalty system and other vitally important internal procedures, all of which are intended to focus on shoring up revenue sources and paying off creditors. We will create an atmosphere of transparency and efficiency that was heretofore lacking,” announced Anthony after taking charge on Friday. He is importing new staff to handle the tasks, though Dorchester’s remaining core will go unchanged.
Dorchester is known for having built such stars as Christine Feehan, Katie MacAlister, Connie Mason, Lynsay Sands, and numerous others, and its authors have been bestsellers of The New York Times, USA Today, Barnes & Noble, and many more. Earlier this year, Dorchester changed its focus from mass-market paperbacks to e-books and trade paperbacks. While the trade line was planned for some time, the mid-August shift to e-books was predicated by financial difficulties stemming from the contracting mass-market industry and came with a significant reduction in Dorchester’s staff, which caused some missteps in the implementation of the new company strategy. Mixed messages to media outlets and unpredicted procedural changes also contributed, undermining author confidence and leading to rumors of imminent bankruptcy.
“We are going to reinvigorate this company,” declared Anthony. “I’ve quickly learned that the employees at Dorchester are a talented and professional group. We’re going to do whatever it takes.”
Some steps have already been taken: After a deal with Offset Paperback Manufacturers, previously unavailable mass-market copies of Dorchester’s author backlist are once again available to some vendors and through the company website —www.dorchesterpub.com— and after a short hiatus in new-book production, the company intends to release its Winter e-book list on November 23, 2010, just in time for the holiday season. An arrangement has been reached so that Ingram will be distributing Audio Realms audio versions of popular Dorchester books as well as the trade releases, and the company’s Web site will be revamped and launched right before the end of the year. Writers groups such as SFWA, RWA and MWA are being contacted to help spread news of the changes.
Contrary to mistaken previous reports, Dorchester intends to produce all titles in both e-book and trade paperback form, using both Ingram’s regular trade printing ability or advanced inventory technology as orders dictate. The trade paperbacks will begin appearing in January 2011 and be distributed through Ingram Publishing Services, who will sell Dorchester’s product into standard retail outlets such as Barnes & Noble, Borders, Waldenbooks, BooksAMillion, Powell’s, Wal-Mart, Target and K-Mart, among others. A recent changeover from LibreDigital to Core Source, Ingram’s digital warehousing and e-book sales arm, will also facilitate forward growth and the expedited availability of popular authors’ backlists in e-book form.
I give everyone the benefit of the doubt–even Mr. Anthony. Even though Dorchester’s sister company, Dorchester Media owes me several thousand for writing for True Story. Transparency? Don’t think so. Wondering why the mag writers were not told that True Story and other Dorchester magazines temporarily suspened publication recently. And wondering why the media is not reporting this? Come one–this mag is 91 years old and has a quarter of a mil circulation. Why the secrecy?
I have no idea either. I had just renewed both of my subscriptions, too. That will never happen again. I see the magazine in grocery stores, too. What a way to rip people off. Plenty of people are plenty mad about this.
time to sue big rip off ordered 6 of the true magazines and no money back or magazines and ordered them last year.
have to be approved to write comment whats wrong have something to hide?
I had just renewed my subscription for two years. I was not notified they were not going to be sending the magazine or refunding any of my money. I have had other magazines stop publishing but they gave me the option of getting my money back or getting a different magazine. This seems illegal since they are back to publishing the True Story magazines, but not bothering to send us our subscriptions. T
I’ve subscribed to the romance magazines for years, and suddenly stopped receiving them after the December 2010 issues. No explanation, no refund, no reply to correspondence asking why. Sad that magazines with such stellar reputations and good service ended up in the hands of an organization like this.
I agreed with Beth, my subscription was renewed until May 2012 and I was not notified that the magazine was no longer in publication and I just saw True Story in the store with a June, 2011 publication – I HAVE not received it in the mail. Will my subscription continue????
Same ire here over the treatment of us as subscribers. I called the company for a refund, and they said they were going to complete our subscriptions, but that was months ago. If anyone finds a phone number again, post it, and we can bombard them with calls. I subscribed to all 4 “True” mags, and had just renewed for three years. It feels a bit criminal. They have over $100 of my money with no correspondence.