Hat tip: Lepplady
Leppy’s got a new blog entry about Tabetha Jones’ continued shakedown of her former authors. Word is that Tabby finally registered her company (Dark Storm?), and is trying to hit up authors who at one time signed on with Mystic Press or Phoenix Fire for separation fees. Perhaps Leppy can clarify which of those “companies” is the one that’s now registered, although the obvious candidate is the newest incarnation, Dark Storm.
If my guess is correct, then the old Mystic Press and Phoenix Fire contracts are unenforceable under the new entity, even if Dark Storm is now legally a company. When a company dissolves, so do its contracts; a successor company must issue new contracts. Considering that the authors now being hit up for separation fees no longer are with any of the previous “companies,” and certainly are not with Dark Storm, it’s disingenuous at best for Tabby to try to enforce clauses from now-nonexistent companies under the aegis of her new company.
Tabetha posted at Lepplady documents showing:
A. IRS.gov notification that TABETHA R JONES had been assigned an Employer Identification Number (EIN) with IRS
B. McClennan Co TX issued a “Certificate of Ownership for Unincorporated Business” for: Dark Storm Publications, 910 Lewis Street, Waco, Texas 76705; Proprietorship. OWNER Tabetha Jones FILED AND RECORDED 03/25/2015 08:47 AM
“Dark Storm Publications” does not show up in a Taxable Entity Search with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Neither does “Dark Storm” nor “Dark Storm Publishing”.
https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/servlet/cpa.app.coa.CoaSearch?Search_Nm=Dark+Storm+Publications&Submit=Search+by+Name&Pg=tpnm&Button=start
A. IRS EIN for Tabetha R Jones
B. County certification for “Dark Storm Publications” owned by Tabetha Jones.
C. State?
That may be more paperwork than Mystic Press or Phoenix Fire Publishing ever showed, but we should be underwelmed.
According to Texas.gov:
“Taxable Entity Search (link: https://ourcpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/Index.html)
“Determine whether a business is in good standing with Texas by using the Comptroller of Public Account’s Taxable Entity Search.”
Interesting. The only companies that have remotely similar names to any of hers, present or past, are Phoenix Fire ones. Those are mostly fire safety and restoration services. Of course, Dark Storm wouldn’t be paying any taxes yet, if it was only registered a week ago.
Yah. She’s trying to look all legal and junk. On one hand, it’s about frigging TIME. But at the same time, I think it only makes her more dangerous. Now she can approach authors claiming to be all legal. And junk. So new and eager authors are even more likely to think they’re trapped by their contracts when everything goes south. They’re not, but with her name on papers (and junk) they’re more likely to be intimidated when she threatens them with legal action. More of them might think they have no choice but to pay her insane separation fee just to get rid of her.
Yes, it’s the newest incarnation, Dark Storm, that she finally put her name on. I’m glad she finally paved a paper trail. In one neat little package, she ties herself legally and irrefutably to those former companies (MP and PF), with her very own name, for a change. No more being dodgy at tax time because somebody else’s name was on the papers. Now, there’s a direct link that leads all the way from the beginning straight to her front door. Literally.
As for those former contracts, she gets around the whole legal technicality of starting a mew business by saying that the contracts from the old company “carry over” to the new one. And expects that to be legally enforceable (and junk) just because the throws it in there. Doesn’t work that way, but I’m betting she hopes newbies are too green to know that.
Disingenuous is a nicer word than I would choose.
Aww and there’s me thinking Nicky had forgotten about me. Just had a new love note today…
Lyth if you knew I was going to publish you why are you so devoted to fucking me over now? Why don’t you write a book and publish this instead of wasting your fucking life messing with someone who has very little — don’t you realize you’re the one who is compensating for a shit heart as you dine on your own shit and drink piss from a pint to chase it down. You’re little “prim and proper” bullshit — well get used to hearing an Inland North Accent because my grammar is tied to my accent; so I guess you’re a little fag who takes it up the ass like Oscar Wilde did. Playright — what a fucking sick joke. Why don’t you do a submission call and do an anthology yourself instead of devoting to trying to make like I died when I never did.
Please note that I put his date of death on his Shelfari well over a year ago.
here’s my reply to little nicky nutkins
Why do you devote so much time shouting and screaming at people over the internet instead of settling down and learning how to write? If you gave a fraction of the effort you expend in screaming abuse at people and writing tons and tons of tl:dr crap into actually improving yourself, you might actually gain a little bit of respect. But you won’t do that will you?
And just in case it hasn’t sunk into that retarded little peanut you use for a brain, I WRITE FOR A HOBBY. The couple of plays I’ve written have been performed and some of them have even won awards… That’s more success from my hobby than you’ve ever had from your entire “career”.
Good to hear from you again.
And just because I’m bored, here’s a further reply I just sent him
Oh, and just to pick you up on a couple of minor points. I didn’t know you were going to publish me. You published my story without telling me until i asked you. You also spelt my name wrong in the table of contents and acted like a complete arsehole when I asked you to spell it correctly. You even told me in a chat on Darkwriters (before you were banned for your usual abusive behaviour) that you’d spelt it correctly. That’s not the behaviour of a sane intelligent or reasonable person.
I warn people against sending stories to you because you are not fit to call yourself a writer, publisher or editor.
And most people from where you live don’t talk like a hamster being buggered by an elephant. Your accent gets less understandable the more you stay off your meds. I suggest you get yourself committed back to the mental home you belong in and don’t come out until all your personality disorders have been resolved. A few decades should do the trick.
Wow!!! I think I touched a nerve or three… today’s love note
You don’t even call yourself a serious writer; you insulted my magazine roster and the closing writer who is a personal friend of mine from before An Eye In Shadows was written or my career started you little twat. I am not dead; you make fun of the Inland North Accent — saying that I am grammatically inept. Fuck you — I am not “prim and proper” you little child-fucker.
You want to ruin me now because you’re saying that I am one of David Boyer’s alter egos. I am sorry but someone debunked that I am not Boyer when I was plagiarized and scammed by Boyer — I was one of his victims but I became the one who lead the charge about his inquisition. Why don’t you jump on video and say you’re a little asshole who spreads all those lies about me — saying that what you did gave Robert Baupader a license to plagiarize my work and Brian Keene to go after my SSN. What if someone went after your National Insurance Number I think you’d be a bit pissed if someone did that because they can fuck your life up with that information.
What is it worth to you that I am active or not because what S. E. Cox pulled almost killed my company as did what Thirty Silver did; I was pissed off enough at them to fleece them on their bandcamp. I am glad CreateSpace.com doesn’t have the name your price deal on books like Smashwords.com does. Smashwords.com you can get fleeced like nothing.
So why don’t you do a full length book saying why you’re devoted to fuck with someone who gets only $8800 a year — yes that’s what I get and I don’t have a lot because my grandmother and grandfather died a year apart of each other; the fact I never folded the magazine but put it on hold because of my grandmother was very sick after Issue 13 and lost the entire issue 14 when my computer crashed. So this anthology ensemble project I am working on will allow me to go forward and pick up where Issue 13 left off where every issue will be close to what I did with Issue 5 and parts of Issue 10; with Issue 11 and 12 thrown in for good measure.
I am going to have a talk with Frank on Linkedin.com asking about you; he should had done a background check about you because you’re a fucking worm who goes ruining your former bosses maliciously.
You should really sit down and read An Eye In Shadows because you will know I am not a faggot as J. S. Carrington (her real name is withheld but her pen name as a fantasy writer is Serena Carrington was my first kiss. I dated her for four years — from the 1989-1990 to the 1992-1993 part of the book. We dated since 7th grade — not many guys dated their girlfriends that long in high school and middle school.)
For the record I am working on new material right now and trying to arrange an audio book; so why do you devote so much time to ruin those who have very little. I doubt you believe in God — if you do you might be burning in hell for this. I had been published in magazines and worked with authors who were published in The Huffington Post.
I am a career writer and did this since I was 14; you call yourself a hobbyist I am sorry but I should avoid publishing hobbyists because many of my roster are career authors and publishers like I am — I know how to write and done quite well in magazines to see my stories illustrated in unique and cool ways.
The hobby is scouting other writers — running a magazine became the hobby at the age of 20 years old but managed to make a few sales here and there (paid for my groceries and my commute; semi-professional author.) So tell me this — why you, the hack, is so devoted to fuck over those who made a career out of it and are true indies. So kindly buggar off because you became nothing but a genital wart. Technology didn’t catch up with me until I was 28 to do a publishing outfit where I can really compete with the bigger places — I now have Issue 10 back in print; so you want to call me a “retard” you faggot. I will stop calling you a faggot when you stop calling me a retard, so how does “child-fucker” sound with you.
I wrote six books and don’t treat Shelfari.com like Encyclopedia Dramatica because that’s where you get your information from about me. Someone like you calling writing a hobby, find a new fucking hobby you litle cunt. You enabled my work to be plagiarized as Brian Keene did — with your little lie that I am David Boyer; do you realized you did more harm to someone’s career than others as I am willing to re-instate Jayson Blair to catch Robert Baupader as he’s one of your new “friends.” Create a fucking blog at LiveJournal.com where you can be a cunt all you want.
Explain how you disrespected the living writers on the first namesake — as you did that too you little cunt; one of them is from a smaller town than my ex-fiancee. Tell me something infant-raper; if you were so “devoted” to smearing the shit out of me was http://thewonderfulwordofnickpacione.tumblr.com you? That was you — man you’re done; because when I do an article for The New Republic it will be an expose on your sorry ass how you went around creating this thing about me being “dead” when you have friends who are dead and a classmate who has killed someone. Then you have a classmate threatening to kill you because you exposed them as a fraud when they had covered up for a plagiarism of my work. Do you think I am going to play games — no I will cc’d this to the classmate who threatened to kill me and eat my carcass like a Portillo’s hot dog.
I didn’t grow up in Morris, Illinois, and lived in Justice, Illinois, for a year up to May 2007. I call the Joliet area my home (the entire Southlands,) so take that into your fucking skull as Joliet is a majority of my author photos are taken. I am from Central DuPage County — you want to take swipes at my mental health diagnosis again; do you want to be the one whose any drive to be a writer to be done because where you are – I am sure you’d do your novel with a crayon behind bars you little cunt.
Shut up and let people submit to my publications — don’t be a little cunt and destroy the thing that keeps my sanity; as I am working on an important project that’s a homage to my author who passed away because of cancer. You’re pissing on his grave.
He devoted an entire essay to you, Marc. Don’t you feel special?
My reply was consise and to the point
Aw my little darling Nicky.
You sound a little annoyed at something.
I’m not sure who you are Mr email address removed but I apologise profusely that the hamster voiced basement dwelling freak has chosen to drag you into this.
Regards
Marc
This got a reply in record time…
You want to start with me you fucking hack; Robert Champion was a classmate from back when An Eye In Shadows wasn’t written yet as you don’t do your research Lyth. He’s from a scandal scarred village known as Lombard, Illinois, as I spoke of this at great length on http://nickolaus.insanejournal.com — you want to really ruin someone ruin Robert Champion because he’s the fucking fraud. He was arrested for threatening his ex-girlfriend and dodged a court date; my blog Faustian Bargain speaks of him at great length. You’re the fucking basement dweller around here my late grandfather’s house is not a single story house and this was made into two rentals before they owned it. Two families lived in the place as the area was a vacation home for those who were from the city.
That’s set me straight hasn’t it.
My reply
Nicky
Take some meds.
Get some therapy.
You’re clearly having a psychotic episode. You’re making less sense than normal.
yet more from weasel dick
Give up as a writer is what I am telling you — if you don’t like the fact I am a publisher and anthologies. Start your own fucking outfit and do your submission guidelines see who comes out; I doubt many will show up because you’re a pathetic child-fucker. I managed to get my second namesake close to ready and revamping Issue Five with a cool layout to reflect the story The Pattern of Diagnosis.
You want to take a shit on someone with a learning disability that makes you something lower than Brian Keene with his bullshit — let’s see you produce an anthology the same size as The Ethereal Gazette: Issue 10. An Anti-Issue 10 if you have the balls. The rules:
2400-6800 Words
No Career Writers/Authors
Hobbyist Hacks Only
http://www.libreoffice.org (I will even design your template to get you started and table of contents to give you a head start.)
But I really doubt you can even carry an anthology and a roster and the rule is no fake named authors as in they must have a real name (XXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com must reveal her identity if you want her for this.)
Hobbyists Anonymous: An Anthology Of Literary Hobbyists Instead of smearing An Eye In Shadows or Suburbanite’s Confessional. Challenge them if you can.
Sorry, Marc. I edited your comment, but only to X out the personal email address that Nicky included.
sorry – I hadn’t realised I left it in
Give up as a writer is the advice NIKITA’s giving somebody else? That’s the best joke I’ve heard all day. And believe me, I’ve heard plenty.
Tabetha et al started a blog called Inferno to flame Jacqueline Weister and her company, Kinship Press, but that didn’t get any attention, so now she (et al) have started another one, called Flippin and Pimpin. I guess they figure if they keep making new blogs, one of ’em will stick. Or they think that creating as many blogs as they have alternyms will impress somebody.
Or, more likely, they just hope to muddy the waters enough to let Tab swim under the radar. Whatever.
http://flippinandpimpin.weebly.com/
And – in an email entitled “You know what I am challenging (I think he missed a comma in that…) he continues
Must be in dead tree format too. So that means I will give you the website to be able to resize and scale then merge pdfs which I doubt you’re smart enough to learn how to do that. Don’t call it anything that ties it to Lake Fossil Press as you’re a fucking washout.
My reply
If I had the time or the inclination to edit an anthology, I would not be looking for help or advice from someone as poor at the job as you are. EG10 had different titles on the front and back covers. That’s pathetic by any standard. There was a typo in the company logo on the back cover. The whole thing was riddled with typos and bad formatting.
I must say the fossil lake anthologies are very well done. None of the basic errors that are your signature as an editor or publisher.
Regards
Marc
This sounds like another of his ridiculous throwdowns.