/24-7PressRelease/ - ATLANTA, GA, October 09, 2007 - The October issue of the free online Southern Review of Books newsletter focuses in its lead story on the demise of Mardi Gras Publishing - and what happens to the rights of authors in publisher bankruptcies.
Mardi Gras, based in tiny Daphne, Ala., across the bay from Mobile, was a femme-oriented publisher in the business of selling mostly e-book versions of erotic romances or "nightgown novels."
The owner of Mardi Gras is Teresa Jacobs, who writes under the pen name Teresa Wayne.
The first public notice that something was seriously wrong at Mardi Gras came at the Web site of sci-fi author Piers Anthony, who as a sideline tracks information about Internet publishers on his Web site. In late August, he posted a notice that "On the heels of the Triskelion Bankruptcy and the Silk's Vault troubles, Mardi Gras Publishing will apparently be filing Ch. 7 bankruptcy at the end of this week or the start of next." After that notice appeared, Jacobs said in one of her author loops that she was delaying the Ch. 7 filing to January 2008.
The Southern Review story covers various accusations being made by Mardi Gras authors and former staffers.
Other stories in the issue deal with publication of O.J. Simpson's If I Did It by Beaufort Books, Katie Couric's heartbreak over being dumped by e-mail, the book reading habits of Americans, a book publisher forced to fold in the wake of a $33 million judgment and the helpfulness of memes to writers.
The Southern Review of Books is a publication of Atlanta-based Anvil Publishers.
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