Shady Deals

Having read Emily Blake's Shady Publishing Deals blog and spoken to industry insiders, I can confirm the following: -

Sarah Holland has been repeatedly pestered over a number of years via e-mail, snail mail and hand delivery, to sign a Harlequin e-book contract at a shockingly low percentage.

Sarah Holland has repeatedly refused to sign.

This contract was at one stage allegedly hand-delivered to her in 2011, at her desk, by the man who was then her boss, Chairman of UK celebrity magazine empire EMP Media, Joe Cuby.

Sarah Holland was also offered, in August 2003, an undisclosed sum of money to sign a document agreeing to forfeiture of all rights to the Charlotte Lamb Literary Estate.

It was when Sarah refused to sign that she was denounced as insane all over the world.

In December 2003, she was disinherited in the presence of lawyers and the Charlotte Lamb Literary Estate was willed to 1 person - 1 person with everything to gain from doing a shady deal behind the scenes.

Since then, Sarah Holland has been pursued by the international conspirators in UK, Canada and the USA in a relentless series of attempts to destroy her life, her relationships, her career, her finances, her home stability and even have her committed or forced into suicide.

Her mother must be rolling in her grave because - clearly - the Charlotte Lamb Literary Estate is at the bottom of it.
                                                                                  
Worth a minimum of $1.25 billion, the Charlotte Lamb Literary Estate holds the rights to approx 300 novels including 250 Harlequin romances, each guaranteed to sell at least 1 million copies in the first instance - with projected earnings virtually exponential, both in gross profit and sales figures.

Each was part of a series of multi-book contracts signed by Charlotte Lamb and Alan Boon (of Mills & Boon/Harlequin) back in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.  

Because Charlotte Lamb was then Queen of Mills & Boon/Harlequin and because Alan Boon was an honourable man who believed in credit where credit was due, her royalty percentage on all those contracts was huge.

As we all know, Harlequin's record since 1994 in terms of honourable contracts, just and fair royalty percentages for authors, creative sales figures, creative historic amendments, claiming to have "lost access" to all sales figures before 1994 and enforced futuristic e-book amendments is somewhat less than edifying. 

I think we can therefore eliminate the possibility that they might have tried to play fair regarding an e-book back catalogue of the size and $$$ of Charlotte Lamb's.

We can also agree that Sarah Holland, often described by Robert Kirby as "my most conscientious author" would never have allowed her late mother's royalty % to be altered - let alone slashed - by a firm like post-1994 Harlequin who couldn't even be bothered to attend her late mother's funeral.  

Perhaps post-1994 Harlequin should be altered to post-1984 to echo the Orwellian prophecy that the future would be a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

For those of you who haven't seen the blog that broke this e-% story, here's the link: - http://shadypublishingdeals.blogspot.co.uk/

More soon - I'll keep you posted.

by our Editor, Juliet Warsaw

 

 

STOP PRESS!

                           
                   WRITTEN EVIDENCE?

A little bird just told me that a top London literary agent has recently contacted author Sarah Holland, who is currently fighting (ghetto-style) the alleged murder conspiracy against her.

The agent in question is British.  

The head of a major literary agency, she represents some of the biggest names in publishing including some legendary estates and is known in the press as a "maverick".

Apparently, she sent a long e-mail to Sarah Holland, part of which looks as though it was written by an American lawyer.

It seems this maverick agent just copy-pasted it straight into her personal e-mail to Sarah without altering the legal phrasing - or the Americanisms.  

The e-mail was ostensibly a normal private letter from an agent to an author, casually discussing a manuscript Sarah Holland had recently sent her with no contract or publication plans involved.

The section with the copy-pasted American legalese relates directly to the alleged conspiracy against Sarah.

As anyone in publishing knows, it is not normal practice to include this kind of thing in any e-mail at all between author and agent - but certainly not a preliminary e-mail before they've even agreed to work together.

"In my opinion," said my source, "this not only proves there is some kind of conspiracy against Sarah - it proves the conspiracy is international."

What next?   I'll keep you posted...

by our Editor
Juliet Warsaw







Keep watching the incriminating daily countdown at: - http://wiseoldtomkelly.blogspot.co.uk/

                                                       

               MURDER CONSPIRACY?

•  Is there a conspiracy to kill author Sarah Holland by pushing her into suicide?

•  Who benefits from her late mother Charlotte Lamb's multi-billion $ estate?

•  How many people have been drawn into the conspiracy over the years?

•  Was a serious breach of author-agent confidentiality committed?

• Are allegations of sexual perversity, corruption and blackmail true?

                                                                                         


By Editor Juliet Warsaw, Live from the Frankfurt Book Fair

Here at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the controversy surrounding author Sarah Holland and her late mother Charlotte Lamb thunders on.

The Charlotte Lamb e-book estate is worth a minimum of $1.25 billion and it is alleged that Sarah has been the victim of a long running conspiracy to murder her because of it.   Sarah was famously close to her mother throughout her life but immediately after Charlotte Lamb's death, attempts to destroy Sarah and her reputation began with shocking speed and violence.

Since then, it is alleged that a small band of conspirators have been trying to push her into suicide using every crooked means at their disposal including; engineering a break with her family, persecuting her by damaging her relationships, bribing people to lie to her and about her, working against and betraying her, defaming her, denouncing her - even attempting to have her drugged, sexually abused and filmed.   She has been forced to flee at least 2 murder attempts and move countries as well as continents to survive.      

Now, Sarah has written her autobiography and it is one of the hottest properties of the year – not least because of the gossip-storm it has provoked.    

But the single biggest mystery is that the alleged conspirators are claiming it is "nonsense", that "nobody is taking any notice" of it and it is therefore "not worth sueing over".

Pardon me?   Did you say: - “Not worth sueing over?”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the links to Sarah Holland’s Life Story are not just all over the internet – but on the public social media sites of every literary agent and publisher in London, New York and Toronto.

Furthermore, it has been posted by anonymous supporters onto the social media sites of the United States Supreme Court along with the British, American and Canadian Governments.   It's also been posted with lawyers, police, attorney generals, literary associations, all kinds of national and international authorities – and of course every major newspaper, magazine, tv and radio station in America, Canada and the UK.

Some of the names are: -

London Literary Agent Luigi Bonomi of Luigi Bonomi Associates

Harlequin Books

Torstar Boss John Honderich

Ex-Harlequin Mills & Boon Editorial Director Karin Stoecker

Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, David W. Robertson

Ex-wife, Ann Robertson

Editor of Texas Tribune and a relative by marriage, Evan Smith

All 3 blogs have been running unchallenged for over 3 months.

Yet not a single lawyer has appeared, not a single word has been queried and not a single conspirator has publicly denied a single one of the charges.

Why not?   

Here at the Frankfurt Book Fair the word at after-show drinks parties is that they’re all guilty as hell and terrified of legal repercussions.

I caught up with a group of movers and shakers who all had a word to say off the record.

“They can’t go to court.”  One famous New York literary agent told me.   “The evidence against them is too damning."

A British publisher agreed:   "It may have started out with 2 or 3 people; it may have started out with a simple breach of author-agent confidentiality.   But along the way they've bribed, co-erced, enticed and entrapped so many other people that it's frightening to imagine how deep the rabbit hole goes - or how damaging it would be if it all spilled out in a court of law."  

And it's still going on.

THE 3 LINKS ARE: - 

http://sarahhollandslifestoryquiz.blogspot.co.uk/ 

http://sarahholland873.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/sarah-hollands-life-story/

                        
                                                http://wiseoldtomkelly.blogspot.co.uk/ 

NB: - My good friend Mark Chambers has just posted this piece on the Sarah Holland Murder Conspiracy on his site.   I thoroughly recommend it.

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