Follow up

As if my life isn't complicated enough as it is right now- I just received a comment on a past post - the one about my publisher [this one]. (You know, a reply, via the internet, from my publisher, who has in the recent past stated that she has been unable to reply to my emails due to a lack of internet access)
Go ahead, click the link, reread the post, and PLEASE, read her reply as well.

In said reply, you notice that she seems unhappy with my comments.

She accuses me of "bashing" her company.

V. intr. Informal
To engage in harsh, accusatory, threatening criticism.

Now, I may admit to "harsh" but I didn't accuse anyone of anything, or threaten anyone in my post. I simply stated truth and facts.

She states, and I quote:

"As you know we have had problems with our press in which we just had to change. Which explains why I was unable to get your books produced."

For the record, she never once mentioned any problems whatsoever with her press, she told me that they were "busy with other business" and according to her, the things that had them busy were flyers that SHE had them printing up for another project for Meeting of the Minds.

She says she "never asked for a dime" from me - here, she tells the truth. However that was a part of a legally binding contract which she initiated. It's not as if she was doing me a favor, nor do her own contractual terms mean that I should have expected or accepted poor quality workmanship, which is what I received. In addition to that, she received a percentage of every sale, and she actually GOT her share... As of yet, I have not.

She then states that she only ever asked that I give her time to get reestablished from these aforementioned press problems. Again, untrue, the excuse she gave me for not getting the money owed to me had absolutely nothing to do with her business at all. Her excuse to me was an entirely private one that I've been generous enough to not mention in this public forum. However, in light of the statement

"So please explain the full truth to your audience."

perhaps I should reconsider that choice, and make public the excuse that she DID offer me.

She then says

"...In fact, I called you in which you failed to respond to my phone calls."

Again, I'll admit that I haven't returned her calls, and even admit that tonight I chose not to answer the repeated back-to-back calls from her because to be honest, I don't think I could muster a civil reasonable conversation in light of the present situation with Donovan and the emotional state I've been in the last few days. I couldn't manage a normal conversation with a doctor today without falling apart, I know damn well I'd have lost it talking to her tonight, and decided it best to avoid the confrontation. I won't apologize for that decision. If she REALLY wants me to tell the whole story, all she needs to do is leave a reply to this post to that effect, and I'll be so completely honest as to post ALL of our email back and forth since I started insisting that she pay me what I'm owed.

Now, for the rest of the story:
In her voice mail she says she has decided that the best thing to do is to end her business relationship with me.

Now, I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that a contract is binding, for the entire length of said contract, whether she's happy with my sharing the truth of the situation or not. Not that I'll argue with her, I'm more than happy to end said contract - IN WRITING, thank you very much.

And just as a little personal aside, I find her attitude with me rather amusing (especially the tone of her voice mail) when I'M THE WRONGED PARTY!