I have resigned from LBF Books. I want to thank my gran for teaching me “honey method.” It works. I feel better.

To clarify for any authors or staff that visit here, after reading the owner’s post:

1) I was fired in April, with the excuse she needed to ‘lighten’ her work load compiling royalties, but she wished me to stay on as an editor. I spoke to her, and she reinstated me after I offered to work without the EiC stipend of 5% royalty above editorial royalty. I worried for the authors and the company at the time. Of course, the reason for the firing has now changed, according to an email received this morning.

2) For many reasons, of which I have discussed with Louise and the owner many times over the past eight months, I felt uncomfortable at LBF Books. I filed my resignation with her on June 16th, to which she replied on June 17th, asking me to stay until the end of August and agreeing to the buyout of my contracts. Pretty much immediately, she removed access to the administrative email account. She claims now she told me she was going to do it, but she didn’t, and I have saved all pertinent emails regarding my resignation (amongst others). I simply asked what was going on, said if she wanted me to continue, I needed access to the email address, and told her if she’d changed her mind, I’d need to re-evaluate my buy out to remove the outstanding projects. This would be to her benefit financially, but…

3) I received an email this morning that was… hard to understand for the most part, and talked of things I didn’t even say or know about. She claimed I gave her an ultimatum. She then ‘fired’ me again, stating some things that…well… I don’t get.

You can’t fire someone that’s resigned. But, whatever. I don’t care anymore. I do care about the remaining authors, some of whom I’ve made friends with. I do hope we can continue on as such, I’ve tried my best being honest with all of you. Unfortunately, sometimes I wasn’t, but I swear to you all, it was unknowingly. I also want to reiterate to those authors who were unhappy and became angry with me, please… understand I was doing my job, as best as I knew how, given what knowledge I had of the company. Please…feel free to get in touch with me anytime.

I am happy in my departure, although unhappy in the way the management handled it after their initial reaction. Things will work out.

I am overjoyed in the direction everything is going now, and… well, there may or may not be a new announcement soon. I’ve been encouraged to go in another direction, a turn around. A return to my own standards. Perhaps I shall.