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:: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 ::

End of an error
Yesterday afternoon, I and two witnesses signed two copies of a letter releasing me from my contract with Huntington House/Vital Issues Press for my book E-vangelism: Sharing the Gospel in Cyberspace in exchange for forfeiting all past due and current royalty payments. I mailed the letters back to Huntington House last night on the way home from work. Once HH's publisher signs and returns my copy, I will once again hold copyright to E-vangelism, and then this whole ugly mess will finally be behind me.

I can't say I feel any better about the situation right now. I had to hire an attorney to write a letter to get HH to do anything, and that's left a bitter taste in my mouth. That, and the fact that HH was more than 2 1/2 years in arrears on royalty payments due me. My January post about the problems did result in a $20 check from HH as a show of "good faith," but I soon decided, after consulting with many good people in the legal community, online and off (thank you all!), that the best course of action would be to try to get out of the contract, get the copyright back, and work on a substantial revision and update of the book. So that's what I'm now pursuing, slowly but surely. Right now, it's still mostly an idea formulating in my head; not much actual writing has been accomplished. (See this post for thoughts on E-vangelism 2.0.)

I really do want to put this entire episode behind me, but I would be lying to say I don't feel bitter and resentful about it all. I know, I know. Forgiveness. I'm working on it. But it isn't there yet.

Thanks for your prayers, then as now.

:: Andrew 10:39 + ::
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