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Originally Posted by Adam
1. GoO didn't have the rights to do a new edition of Amber. Whether Page Press simply couldn't transfer the rights or didn't have the rights to transfer I don't remember, but unless I'm mistaken, anyone could persue the Amber license.
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* While all the paperwork was not complete, Guardians of Order had received verbal permission from me to put out a new edition of Amber Diceless.
* Phage Press owns the rights to Amber Diceless, but the publication of any edition by a third party, such as Guardians of Order, will require approval from The Amber Corporation (i.e.: Roger Zelazny's estate).
Here is the situation:
There was a verbal agreement between Mark (Guardians) and myself (Phage), wherein Guardians of Order was to take over distribution of the existing Amber stock, work up the paperwork, and prepare to launch a new edition of Amber Diceless.
Unfortunately, Guardians started experiencing their problems just around the same time they took on Amber (Summer of 2004). Since we've been friends for years (Mark is the guy who started the Amercon North in Toronto), I told him there was no hurry (it's not as if I had been a ball of fire producing content for Amber), so we never got to creating or signing a formal agreement.
I have appointed a proxy to deal with the situation (since I'm off in Shanghai, China, I don't have a lot of choice), and my proxy and I will deal with the situation over the next few days. It seems likely that I'll be assigning the Amber stock, and the role of distributor, to another third party. Note that I said 'likely' -- not certainly, because not all the facts are in.
By the way, to be fair, please bear in mind that Mark has a young family to support. Lets give him a little credit for choosing to be a good father, and to take a regular job, in the face of a rather horrific situation.
Erick
Erick Wujcik
Phage Press