Kameron Hurley on the conspiracy of silence about NSB that let to the current situation

[james_davis_nicoll]

Everything authors knew about the rotten abuse at Night Shade was shared in private. With a few exceptions (Moon and Williams, most notably) no one was talking out loud about what was happening. The SFWA was accomodating and gracious and gave them chance after chance. We should have spoken up. All of us.

But we didn’t. Because these guys were “nice guys” we knew, not “big megacorp unknown entity.”

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[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Our Cuban music label office's suite was next to a rap label's suite. We haven't forgotten the day a couple of that label's boys with a beef came in and pistol whipped everybody.

They still didn't get paid.

But their asses went to prison.

This was in NYC.

In New Orleans, man, not paying the musicians is an ancient art that went to levels hardly imagined by white boys.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I don't know about fridgepunk, but I myself was thinking more of the "we're nice guys, everybody likes us, we love the music and sincerely want to get it out there except whoops it turns out we're incompetent at business so I guess we'll just lie about it for years" angle.