The Dreamspinner Press Controversy

The true story of a publisher that stopped paying its authors — and is somehow still in business

Casey Lawrence
21 min readOct 14, 2021

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Promotional image for the author’s two YA books, Out of Order (2015) and Order in the Court (2016), with the Harmony Ink Press imprint of Dreamspinner Press (link now defunct)

On July 16, 2021, I made the following announcement on my public Facebook page:

“I have made the hard decision to part ways with Dreamspinner Press and their imprint, Harmony Ink, who published Out of Order (2015) and…

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Casey Lawrence

Canadian PhD student of English at Trinity College Dublin and author of two LGBT YA novels. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.