Mike lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas with his wife Susan. In the world of fiction, Mike is the author of seven published novels: thrillers The Bequest, Manifest Intent, Rules of Privilege, Kanaka Blues, Wrongful Termination, and Every Pig Got a Saturday, as well as the Hawaiian historical fiction Isle of Broken Dreams. His next true crime book, Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga, about the abduction and murder of the ten-year-old son of a Hawaiian Trust Company executive in 1928 Honolulu, is slated for publication in 2018. Film rights to A Death in the Islands have been optioned by a Honolulu-based production company.
#Fifty shades of grey order trial
In the world of non-fiction, in addition to Fifty Shades of Black and White, Mike is the co-author (with Robert Hinkle) of Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood and the Hawaiian true crime A Death in the Islands: The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow. Mike Farris is a retired Dallas attorney and past Chair of the State Bar of Texas Entertainment and Sports Law Section, whose practice focused on commercial litigation and entertainment law. In the end, this is a cautionary tale of what happens when money comes between comrades and of the importance of “getting it in writing.” It is an illustration of why greed is one of the seven deadly sins. Mike Farris explains how the case developed and proceeded in the courtroom while Jennifer Pedroza tells her personal story of how she was victimized by someone she thought was a friend. It was against this backdrop that Jennifer Pedroza retained attorney Mike Farris to file a lawsuit in Fort Worth, Texas, to establish that The Writers Coffee Shop had been, and still was, a partnership that she was a still-existing partner in that partnership and that she was entitled to her share of partnership profits.įifty Shades of Black and White provides an insider’s look at the sordid story of the rise and fall of The Writer’s Coffee Shop, as well as a study of the litigation it spawned.
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After selling publishing rights to the Fifty Shades trilogy to Random House, one of them claimed no partnership ever existed and made off with more than $40,000,000 in royalties from the sale. Although they never formalized a written partnership agreement, the four operated The Writer’s Coffee Shop as a partnership, but that lack of a written agreement was a portent of things to come.
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#Fifty shades of grey order series
When four women first banded together to form The Writer’s Coffee Shop publishing house, little did they know they would publish one of the most successful book series in history: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed. Anatomy of the Lawsuit behind a Publishing Phenomenon