Then, I got a humbling summary evaluation of my manuscript:
I had a simple choice: stick to my artistic guns and refuse to remove the subterfuge and find another publisher, or revise
if they can’t print the book because of this, they can keep my deposit and we’ll go our separate ways.
my contact at iUniverse had understood my position well enough after our call to not have wasted my time even offering them.
Things get more serious: Money becomes involved