I’m getting my rights back for Not Seeing Is A Flower

I published Not Seeing Is A Flower with Eraserhead Press in 2021. Since publishing with them I’ve only received two royalty payments. 

The third and last royalty payment didn’t come through and after several messages to them, I was promised it would be sent again. That was the last message I got from them and I never heard back for months. I left several messages via phone and I sent emails.  And yet no response.

I resorted to messaging their US based authors since I live In Nigeria. One of them helped me with the first two royalty payments. Otherwise they wouldn’t have sent any payments. I didn’t want to bother the kind author again to help with recent payment as that is not the way things should be done.

I tried to contact them directly again. I didn’t hear from them until I asked for my rights back in December which they said will be reverted to me.

I hope I can the rights back within this year. It was a painful and anxiety filled process to get this book out. I guess I should have known it would end up this way when I was given a publication date and heard nothing from the publisher until I sent an email a few days to publication day and was told the date had changed.

If there’s any advise I give to Nigerian writers who want to be traditionally published is to be very careful where they submit their work to. And to please for the love of God, get an agent!