The Writer’s Union of Canada Anthology Rates and Contracts

I am really shocked at how quickly I received my copy of the Writer’s Union of Canada’s booklet I mailed out the cheque on Thursday and got the book on Monday morning!  Anyone that wants to know about your rights with the Canadian publishing industry should really buy this booklet.  The booklet I bought was the  “Antholgogy Rates and Contracts. Well as I expected Arsenal Pulp Press are certified bottom feeders. According to the Writer’s Union of Canada booklet no writer should be offered $50 dollars per poem. Arsenal Pulp Press are classic cheap and tacky publishers. I am trying to do my best to rise above the negativity but its hard.

Its really hard because I’ve been though this shit before with TSAR. As far as I am concerned people will try to rip a writer off anyway they can. The thing is I have been trying to be more cognizant of my rights. I never signed anything with Arsenal Pulp Press. I had no idea that they would be this deleterious!  

 I  think this is the hardest part of the business of writing. The thing is I am glad I bought the book because I learning so much. I will say this anyone that is interested in writing please go to the Writer’s Union of Canada’s website knowledge is power and you have the right to know your rights. The Writer’s Union of Canada website is WWW.WRITERSUNION.CA I also want to point out the booklet that I bought was a fair price only nine dollars but the  information in it is simply incredible. Here is the thing though I NEVER was sent a contract by Arsenal Pulp Press. I will NEVER EVER send my work to an anthology again. Arsenal Pulp Press has NOT sent me a contract and they better not be sending some cheap cheque of a mere $50 dollars because that’s highway robbery and total bullshit! I doubt very much Arsenal Pulp Press offered a mere $50 dollars per poem to white gay writers RM Vaughn and Sky Gilbert. 

And see this is the reason why I don’t bother with the white gay community. I am being damn serious. I don’t got time for their games and their bullshit! Billeh Nickerson is full of shit when he told me that he did not have the time to send out all contracts to the writers.  I am sure Nickerson had the time to send contracts to the white gays that’s for sure.Why the fuck would Nickerson take on the job of being co editor of an anthology if he can’t even do the fucking job right? The anthology was published in April 2007 its not June 2007. I have spoken to another writer whose poem is in the anthology and he’s not happy either about it and neither am I.