Day of Miracles
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, owners of Red Deer Press, have finally forked over my $75 permission fee. It was unacceptable that it took so long (see previous post where I vented) and I will never even consider sending a manuscript to any press owned by F&W. I didn’t even get a “sorry, it took so long” or anything even resembling an apology. Even though they have the invoice date of January 5! Six months: any business that pays their invoices that late is not operating with good business sense. Actually, forget about business sense and replace it with common sense.
Should I expect an apology? I guess not, but if these guys, as publishers, are in the business of building relationships with writers, then they’re going to end up single and lonely, to stretch the metaphor. But what this all boils down to–at least from my perception–is the value attributed to the contributors of Alberta Anthology. I hope they are all as outraged as me. At least now I can buy that bottle of Scotch and sooth the literary snub I have endured for six long months.