You can of course choose to go with a publisher who screwed over a lot of authors by helping themselves to the royalty money but past behaviour predicts future performance, aka if *your* royalties mysteriously don't turn up, don't come crying to me.

Oh shit I just realised I don't have all the stans blocked on here. Well, preemptively: If you want people to forgive and forget, pay up; if you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas; fuck off.