 This is important for community well just book community information so please watch the entire video I have all my sources cited down there in the description so if you want to check on any of this stuff you can go do it and there will be images popping up all throughout this video showing you what I'm talking about when I hit certain topics and Shane Staley if you come across this I told you I would be here if you resurfaced and I'm a man of my word okay so in the fall or winter of 2016 Shane Staley of Dark Fuse contracted with me to produce a serialized version of my novella fairy lights and then the following May I believe it was the book was going to be coming out in a hard format a small hardcover it was part of a I believe a 24 piece collection it might have been 12 of novellas that he pre-sold on his website for $300 every single person from what I understand they were numerous numerous people all that money was just gone so he he ran off to the bank with that money he didn't finish the series in fact I think he only printed four I could be wrong I'm getting conflicting stuff I believe there was two before mine and then mine and another one I think there was only four and then in I sent him an email I believe it was in around May when I could expect no my book came out in March my apologies in May asking about my royalties I never heard from him and then in August after multiple attempts to contact him he sent out a broad generalized letter that Dark Fuse was going bankrupt now I'm all for second chances but Dark Fuse was the second chance he he did this first off with delirium books he did the same thing he screwed his customers screwed the authors and then he restarted Dark Fuse and he gave people credit for I guess Dark Fuse titles if any of this information is wrong I apologize I've been talking to customers and to authors of both companies now Dark Fuse I know for certain that when he he said he was going to give out $300 credit or however much was was left I guess prorated as it was a $300 credit to those who had signed up for the novella series the $300 novella series um all that once again just went completely to pot because in August of 2017 Dark Fuse went under when bankrupt and we all got bankruptcy filing papers so um how how does how does credit to a company that no longer exists help it does not help what why are we here we are here today because I received a uh a DM this morning on Twitter that Shane Staley is back under the guise of indie news and his own website staley and associates I'm I'm probably more angry than I should be or maybe it is a rational anger because he had the audacity to put my book fairy lights that he never paid me a single royalty on he did pay me in advance and if you read my blog post blog post down there sorry I'm a little upset if you read my blog post down there you'll see the timeline of events I wrote that way back in 2017 when this first happened there's even the letter that he sent out about the bankruptcy I linked to that and it's the link is still live so you can go check it read it for yourself um uh trying trying to collect myself here my apologies um so the book came out and I serialized in November uh once it was serialized like I said it was supposed so before I got the first dime for my book it was already up on dark fuses website that was that should have been the number one thing uh it should have been you know number one uh clue that you know before he even paid me my advance which I had to fight for all that stuff's in the blog post uh before he even paid me my advance my work was up on his website um I took him for his word because he did have I didn't know about delirium when I signed my contract so that that's my bad had I known about delirium I never would have went with him uh he talked a good game uh he said that he you know best in the business all that stuff but I mean he was just a braggart he was a liar all that stuff um he has been contacting uh the reviewers and uh and companies uh he contacted Sadie of Nightworms and all of her reviewers I believe I could be wrong about that but she he did contact Sadie uh co-owner of Nightworms uh Sadie Hartman and sent her an email uh stating that he would like to do some uh promotion for her um some syndication from for her and so on and so forth the man is such a narcissistic nitwit that he had the has the audacity to put not only his name but his picture up on his websites now the reason the the main reason why this was so upsetting because the same month that he filed for bankruptcy the exact same month he opened up a tennis lesson school or he opened up a company doing tennis lessons he didn't have enough money to pay his authors he didn't have enough money to do anything as far as dark fuse was concerned but he had enough money to start up a tennis company business I don't know if that that business is still around he probably bankrupt that one also um allegedly he used all the money from dark fuse to open up the tennis uh stuff and I say allegedly because that's the only thing that I cannot confirm at this point all I know is that he 100% opened up a tennis company right after uh the bankruptcy the same month that the bankruptcy went through with dark views in fact it might have been before um so yeah if you get an email from indie muse uh stay away from this guy uh stay away from his company anybody associated with him authors do not send your books to this guy it might go well for a little while but he will eventually crumble as far as reviewers are concerned trust me you do not want to be associated with this person who um if you would like to I know multiple multiple people that he has screwed over um if he screwed you over please please uh comment down there in the doobly-doo uh and and tell us your story uh go all in I don't care say whatever you want about the guy I don't care um put all that stuff down there um if if you would like more information as far as screenshots or whatever you can contact me myself um but all this stuff is still online because like I said he's such a narcissist that he he didn't take anything down I mean how stupid Shane if you've made it to the how stupid do you think people are as stupid as you that's how it feels but we're not I'm we're not going to fall for it again and me Brian King yes Brian King Sadie Hartman of Night Worms mother horror we're all going to be spreading the word as much as humanly possible every time I see you pop back up I will be here I promise you that anyways so that's all I have for today once again I'm completely open to comments I'm completely open to inquiries any number of those things I have I have uh stuff to back up everything that I've said in this video but uh please the last thing I want to I want to express here is do not work with this man this is not a second chance scenario this is third chance he has proven time and time again that he cannot run a business successfully in fact he paid me my advance out of his own pocket anyways so uh yeah you guys take care of yourself and Shane if you're watching this go fuck yourself man