There’s trouble afoot. Many authors from Dorchester/Leisure aren’t being paid what they are owed. The publisher is even continuing to sell digital books that they no longer have the rights to sell – and you can bet the authors probably aren’t going to get compensation for those digital sales. It is looking quite shady down Dorchester way… and not the nice kind of shady like when you sit beneath the shade of an old willow tree, toss rocks into the Big Muddy with your pal Huck, and smoke a pipe while you watch the steamboats pass.

No one explains this problem better than Brian Keene, who has been hit by the mishandling of finances and general asshattery at Dorchester over the past year, so here’s a link to his recent post on the matter. Click HERE to read more from the mighty Keene.

Now, I’ve had no personal dealings with Dorchester other than having read and enjoyed some books they’d published. However, I have a lot of admiration and respect for writers such as Keene, Gonzalez, Malfi and the whole lot. Seeing them treated poorly angers me, just as it would any writer. It should anger readers too. After all, without writers what would you read? You can only read shampoo bottles so many times.

Hell, when  I think about it, this should piss off anyone who has ever had a job. Imagine putting in countless hours of work only to find out there is no paycheck at the end of the week. Thus, I wholeheartedly agree with this boycott.