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Hydra Vice President And Digital Publishing Director Allison Dobson On New Author Contracts

Posted at 1:59PM Wednesday 13 Mar 2013

This past week was a busy one for Allison Dobson, vice president and digital publishing director at Random House's new digital imprints Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept and Flirt.

Hydra came under fire starting last week when the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America sent a letter to its members condemning the imprint's publishing contracts. Random House responded with a letter of its own which the SFWA rejected. Bloggers and commenters took up arms, too, to discuss the issue.

Today, perhaps putting an end to the short but frothy saga, Random House announced that it would be making alterations to its contracts with writers for the above mentioned imprints.

I sat down with Dobson to ask her about the new contracts, the conflict and what's next for Hydra and the other imprints.

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