Meanwhile, PB has ceased all marketing efforts, notified our distributor of our plans to shut down, cancelled all forthcoming projects, dismantled our websites and acquisitions staff. The CEO has resigned, and I will be contacting each of contributors with pending contracts or projects personally as soon as time allows.

 

General info regarding authors and projects:  

As pertains to Flashing Swords: the contracts for the current stories may be considered invalid because the relationship between Flashing Swords E-zine and Pitch-Black has been severed. Flashing Swords E-zine has not received its stipend for 2007 from Pitch-Black LLC.

 

As current Editor-in-Chief of FS E-zine I will release all submitted materials to their authors unless there are renegotiations for the story to be published when FS revives at some later date. 

As pertains to Lords of Swords 2. Because the Lords of Swords 2 project has been cancelled *all* contracts for this project are null and void even without the legal dissolution of Pitch-Black, as the contracts stipulated that the stories were to be published in the "Lords of Swords 2" anthology and this anthology will not be published. Most of the contracts for the stories were never counter-signed anyway and so are not legally valid.

As pertains the Flashing Swords E-zine stories. These contracts, also, were never counter-signed and so are not legally binding.

As pertains to all other current submisisons: all stories and materials are the free and clear property of their authors.

I will be sending individual responses to submitters as soon as time permits and ask that if any of you have further concerns or questions you email me or send a PM and I will do my best to answer.