My wife has serious medical issues and in 2016 I was diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer. How many other writers and artists out there are you similarly ignoring? Including not to be ignored, just because I’m only one lone writer. But I’m still here, and I am still entitled to what you owe me.
Ignore requests and inquiries hoping the petitioner will simply go away. I know this is what gargantuan corporations often do. You continue to ignore my legal representatives. You continue to ignore queries from SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. You continue to ignore requests from my agents. Every one of my representatives in this matter, with many, many decades of experience in such business, echo my bewilderment. For the obvious reason that once you sign, you can no longer talk about the matter at hand. Never once did anyone ever ask me to sign one prior to negotiations. I’ve signed a lot of NDAs in my 50-year career. You want me to sign an NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) before even talking. I’d very much like my miniscule (though it’s not small to me) share. You’re certainly reaping the benefits of the assets. When one company buys another, they acquire its liabilities as well as its assets. You’ve never paid royalties on any of these, or even issued royalty statements for them.Īll these books are all still very much in print.
The novelizations of ALIEN, ALIENS, and ALIEN 3. When you purchased 20th Century Fox, you eventually acquired the rights to other books I had written. SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE, the first sequel novel. STAR WARS, the novelization of the very first film.
When you purchased Lucasfilm you acquired the rights to some books I wrote. In this case, the member is Alan Dean Foster. When talks break down, the president of SFWA is asked to step in. When it is working, as president, I never hear from them. As part of our negotiating toolbox, we guarantee anonymity for both the writer and the publisher if the grievance is resolved. The Grievance Committee is designed to resolve contract disputes like this. He had written novels and was not being paid the royalties that were specified in his contract. Last year, a member came to SFWA’s Grievance Committee with a problem, which on the surface sounds simple and resolvable. A message from SFWA’s President, Mary Robinette Kowal:
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