Light Sword Publishing / LSP Digital, LLC

Oh please please please PLEASE say it may be so!

Well if you look under the romance tab Linda Daly is releasing another Dove novel SOILED DOVE, what an appropriate title, on April 15 2010....so some activity is still going on there :/

That's only her own title, though, so maybe there's hope that Limp Sword will eventually slip back into its scabbard.

She's ba-ack!

LSP Digital rises from the dead.

- Victoria

Oh, God, not again. This is whack-a-mole, isn't it?

I applaud your diligence in keeping track of the LSP nonsense, Victoria. But there are times when I wonder if any author, new or not, caught by such traps doesn't fundamentally deserve the hell they're going to put themselves into? Researching these guys isn't that hard.

By the way, now when I see 'LSP' I don't see 'Light Sword Publications', but 'Lumpy Space Princess' from Adventure Time. Snarky, entitled, rather useless -- a great mascot for a publisher!

Filigree said:

But there are times when I wonder if any author, new or not, caught by such traps doesn't fundamentally deserve the hell they're going to put themselves into? Researching these guys isn't that hard.

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Many people feel the same way. But flip it around: if you (using "you" in the generic sense, not directing it anywhere in particular) don't feel that gullible writers deserve protection, maybe you can agree that predatory publishers don't deserve victims.

- Victoria

victoriastrauss said:

Many people feel the same way. But flip it around: if you (using "you" in the generic sense, not directing it anywhere in particular) don't feel that gullible writers deserve protection, maybe you can agree that predatory publishers don't deserve victims.

- Victoria

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+1

A+

You're right. The innocent ducklings really don't deserve to be squished on the freeway. And these publishers truly deserve to be starved out of existence.

victoriastrauss said:

She's ba-ack!

LSP Digital rises from the dead.

- Victoria

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Checks equipment. We've got the garlic, the wooden stakes, the 50,000 watt floodlights, holy water and some silver bullets and werewolf treats for the henchmen. I think we're ready to go hunting again.

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Gah.

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Yes, that about sums it up.

Richard, here are some pitchforks and torches donated from the Horror Hounds (hey, if you're getting together a mob, ya' got to do it right).

I'm a certified henchwoman.

Read it and followed the linkies. Wow, Daly's not as incompetent as I'd thought, back in the old days. Now she's criminal. This is just a vanity money pit for unsuspecting writers, not an organization that actually believes its hype.

Oh. My. Word. I thought Limp Sword had faded into oblivion long ago.

And why -- does anyone know -- was the judgment vacated? That means she never has to pay anyone to whom she owes royalty payments? I'm no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but I thought the whole purpose of going to law for breach of contract was to obtain the monies owed.

I hope Limp Sword does a fast fade once more, so as to avoid more author-damage.

CaoPaux said:

For anyone who's missed it, author (and current MWA president) Lee Goldberg has also been following the LSP saga: http://leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2011/11/inept-publisher-rises-from-the-dead.html

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Great article!

Absolutely! The extracts from Daly's books were hilarious. I can't believe that this woman is giving advice on how to write...

aliceshortcake said:

I can't believe that this woman is giving advice on how to write...

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I checked it out through the Look Inside feature.

Today's writers are required to turn in a well-written, edited, hard copy, or, digital protected file to specific industry standards, along with a comprehensive proposal or treatment that includes your projects marketability.

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Deb Kinnard said:

And why -- does anyone know -- was the judgment vacated? That means she never has to pay anyone to whom she owes royalty payments?

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The vacated judgment was won by Judith Eastwood, who sued Daly, Bonnie Kirby, and Light Sword for fraud (among other things). I'm no legal expert, but from the documents on PACER it looks to me as if the judgment was vacated as part of the disposition of Daly's bankruptcy--probably because the court decided she was insolvent.

See this comment on my LSP post for a convincing theory on how LSP Digital escaped the court's notice.

- Victoria

Ah. That makes sense. Cannot get blood out of a (limp) turnip.

I just went over to the LSP Digital web pages. It looks like they've been revised, yet again. You note I didn't say edited - just revised. When this subject came up the other day I went and looked at LSP then. There was a page that showed the company's 'staff': Charlotte J. Parker and Sheryl Hames Torres were listed as editorial (Parker did the 'editing' on Daly's now infamous 'Aspiring Writers Guide') and aquisitions directors. Parker is a former Lightsword author, and both she and Torres were published by the now-defunct Sapphire Blue Publishing house.

Now that page is gone and so is the 'Coffee Break Reads' link, and all the information regarding LSP reopening for submissions in January. So, based on that, what I have to say is YIPPIE! Apparently keeping Daly's feet to the fire has actually done some good.

That is unless my browser is just hitting on old pages that are out there somewhere. Please post if you're still seeing the new info on their pages!