lol, I’m already regretting it!
Admittedly, I don’t know your reason for leaving Inkshares. I do know that John Robin left and tried to justify it with a series of BS sounding explanations. The way Robin left might be unfairly tainting my reaction to you here and if so, I apologize for that.
John Robin’s latest stated reason was because he didn’t want an artificially imposed timeline on when to finish his book. Total BS because you can complete a campaign and then take as long as you want to submit your manuscript.
In fact two very prominent books that fully funded here are doing just that! The Haida Gwaii Lesson and Guns in the Hands of Artists are taking lots of extra time to produce the best work they can.
Since John Robin’s stated reasons were obvious BS, all we can do is speculate as to what the REAL reason or reasons are.
Whatever the reason, (and it is undoubtedly a selfish one), what happens to all of those who purchased his book many months ago with credits? Do people lose those credits because they expired? I would check on that Zack Jordan in case some of your supporters might get screwed on that.
Anyway, I find this whole trend (and that’s what it is now) distasteful.
Come into Inkshares, build a large following and then leave and take the mailing list with you.
Lots of people stood up for you (and John Robin) and fought for both of you to achieve success during the campaign time. Now that doesn’t really matter and they would have been better off helping campaigns that stayed loyal to Inkshares and went through the production process. I imagine some people might feel used and I wouldn’t blame them. I bet Inkshares, their principals and shareowners feel used.
I will not support any author who does this and I think it has a taint of being unethical. It is unseemly at best.
Inkshares needs these successful campaigns to stay here and flourish. Doing so helps ALL of the Inkshares authors by helping to ensure the company stays financially healthy.
Leaving Inkshares after using their resources and gaining access to their customers while conducting a very successful campaign hurts the company and by extension, hurts the remaining Inkshares authors.
Good luck to you Zack Jordan.
