Who Ya Gonna Call?

[DarkDuo]

Another helpful piece of info:

Those who have questions about web enhancements for Ravenloft, the number of titles produced, the type of titles produced, Ravenloft fiction, Ravenloft adventures or other policy decisions should write a landmail letter to:

Arthaus/Sword & Sorcery
1554 Litton Drive
Stone Mountain, GA 30083

Questions regarding rules, content, etc. should go to us either on this form (we get notified by email) or at the following email address:
JHavana@aol.com. We'll answer you as best we can as quickly as we can.
Complaints can go to us as well or to Arthaus.

One other clarification I'd like to make. Nicky and I are NOT in-house employees of Arthaus or White Wolf. We are freelance developers who get paid by the job. We do not get salaries or benefits from White Wolf, but do this on a "for hire" basis.

Because we are freelancers, we also have day jobs to pay the bills (or try to pay the bills). I work in a library; Nicky works in a movie theatre. Other line developers and freelance writers are teachers, tax preparation specialists, call center employees etc. Our primary responsibility as freelance developers consists of coming up with a list of proposed titles for the year (pending approval by higher ups at Arthaus), preparing an outline for the book for manager review, assembling authors & supplying information for contracting those authors, sending outlines to the authors and letting them know what the deadlines are, overseeing their progress & granting extensions as necessary, putting together a final draft for editing, finding an editor, sending the manuscript to the editor for copy editing and sometimes rules checking, sending the edited manuscript to the art developer for layout and sending artnotes for the chapters to the art editor (who chooses artists), and finally reviewing the proofs in .pdf.

All this is done on a very tight schedule. If someone drops the ball, we either have to find another author to pick it up, or write the material ourselves.

And we do this after we get home from a full day's work!

Then, when we have some spare time, we try to visit the forum and listen to your complaints -- which is why we're often online during the wee hours of the morning (for us) when any sane individual would be getting some sleep to power up for the next day's work.

So, hope this helps clear up who to contact about what.

Take care,
J&N

[Wiccy of the Fraternity]

Thanks for posting that here Jackie

As for sleep, it's for the weak lol.

[DeepShadow of FoS]

Is this landmail address also for RL book proposals?

[MadStepDad]

I know this is probably completely out of your jurisdiction, but what is the deal with the distribution? I'm out in here in MA - not the caves of Madagasca - but I still can't get a single new RL release.

I was copping my stuff from a Hobby store in San Antonio TEXAS that went out of business before G4. Every bookstore I go to in MA (well, at least Waldens) doesn't even have RL stuff listed in the computer! I can't even order it! And while I'd simply LOVE to click on everybodys Amazon link and buy the stuff online - I can't do that now.

So how can a brother in MA get his new RL stuff without traveling out of state? I just can't understand why the shelves overflow with DL and FR stuff - but RL doesn't even exist.

[Jason of the Fraternity]

Every bookstore I go to in MA (well, at least Waldens) doesn't even have RL stuff listed in the computer! I can't even order it!

I don't know about the situation in your entire state, MSD, but Walden Books tends to have a really poor selection of Ravenloft products in Illinois and Iowa as well. The product line might just not do well enough for Waldens to carry the books at many of their stores.