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Monday, September 14, 2009

Books MacAdam/Cage Is Still Publishing

Posted by on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM

Just got a call from Pat Walsh, the Editor-in-Chief at MacAdam/Cage regarding my earlier entry. Walsh says the phone system at MacAdam/Cage has been shot for a few months now, and the new system should be up tomorrow.

He doesn't deny money problems—"We've been having kind of a cash crunch for a few years now," he said, which meant that they were "unable to print all the books we wanted to print." Some titles have only seen a few hundred books published and so they are basically unavailable at booksellers. Stacey Levine's book is one of those titles that has suffered—of the major online retailers, there's only one copy available at Powell's at the time of this writing. Walsh says Levine's book will get a proper roll-out at some date in the future, although they've had to change the tentative release date twice already. He also says that Jack Pendarvis's upcoming release "and a couple of other books" have also been delayed because of money troubles.

Walsh says things are slowly looking up at MacAdam/Cage: "Every month our backlist sells a little more," he says, and he predicts that the publisher will be out of their financial hole by November.

 

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so glad that is straightened out!
Posted by you fuckin retard on September 14, 2009 at 7:17 PM
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I hope this is true and that they will be out of financial trouble soon, as they owe me money for work done for them over 1.5 yrs. ago, and I cant get anyone from the company, including Pat Walsh, to call me back!
Posted by COdesigner on October 12, 2009 at 12:14 PM
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Any updates on M/C? They haven't released anything new since January 09.
Posted by A nonny mouse on November 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM
4
MacAdam Cage is indeed a lovely company. They published a novel by Suzanne Hudson which had a comic rape scene--impossible as that sounds. And of course The Time Traveler's Wife is grand. I hope that the Borders fiasco won't impact them too heavily and that they do get back in the black, insofar as money.

Joe Taylor
Posted by MacAdam Cage, Joe Taylor on February 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM
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Never did hear back from anyone at MacAdam Cage, and they still owe me for the design work done several years ago. I know they are still operating in some capacity, but they are still definitely not paying their bills!
Posted by COdesigner on April 22, 2011 at 1:12 PM

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