I am a bit bewildered by the whole lengthy gena thread. She's hardly the first person to really really like PA while early in the process. Why should she be mad at them? They havent' done anything to her yet. Sure, some of us were never screwed by PA and we wouldn't deal with them because of what they've done to others -- But the rest of the world isn't required to live by my (or anyone else's) moral compass. Plus, Gena hasn't witnessed the abuse of other folks whom she cares about -- it's not that startling that she doesn't get up in arms over the offenses of folks she doesn't even know. A vague, "Gosh, I'm sorry that you got hurt" is really not that unusual a response to something that happened to total strangers.
Gena is also not the first person to come on here and explain how the PA method WILL WORK FOR them because THEY have thought this all out and THEY are different and THEY have thought this all out. And she is far far from the first PA author to have a lawyer look at the contract and say, "Sure, looks fine to me -- you should see music contracts, now they're horror shows!"
Yes, we don't agree with her. Yes, not agreeing with someone (by definition) means you think the person is wrong. Yes, no one likes to be told they are wrong about something where they have a BIG HONKING investment -- um, that's understandable. Yes, we've seen this story before and we know how it's going to end...but goodness, we can let the lady live out her own version of it. We can't snatch her out of the fire, folks, she's already signed, sealed and delivered. If you want her to join in the "snatch others from the fire" brigade, you're simply going to have to give her time to get there.
After all, Diana has done quite a bit to try to save others from walking her road but when she first started on it, she TOTALLY believed that PA was the right publisher for her book and that her promotional efforts were going to work and that her PA story would have a happy happy ending. If she had come here then, she might have scrapped with a person or two herself.
Let Gena live out her own PA story. We can simply not rise up even if we feel baited...after all, you were only baited if you choose to be so.
gran