Okay. I do understand your anger, and I'm sorry for it. However let me clear up some of the misunderstandings.
First of all, Masques was my first book. It is not as good as my later books (although it is the best I could do at the time and I am not ashamed of it). I would not pay $50+ for it and I am surprised that other people are doing so. I do not profit at all from any of the "collectible" bookselling going on and I have no way of influencing it one way or the other. And, as far as I know, when it comes out with Wolfsbane, it will be in paperback priced at whatever paperback books are selling for. In fact it should be a good value as it is really two books and I've spend more than two full years working on it. Actually, if you count the first write of both books, the revision I did of Wolfsbane and the edits of the new version, I'll have spent considerably more time than that on it. If the decision (which is not mine to make) is made to publish it hardcover or trade initially, it will doubtless be priced at standard prices.
That being said, I have to fulfill my contracts. I started the Anna and Charles book I'm working with four months to write it. I'm not a particularly fast writer, but I'm putting in a lot of time and I'll make it. After that I have five months to finish the next book. From then on, we're looking at six months a book for the next three and half years. If I am late for one, I'm late for every subsequent book. At this stage in my career, being late impacts a whole lot more people than just me.
Moon Called has sold something over 100,000 copies. Masques sold 4,000 -- which is abysmal even by first book standards. My best selling traditional fantasy (Dragon Bones) has sold about half of what Moon Called has. Which means that most of my readers are more interested in the Urban fantasies than in traditional fantasies like Masques. In fact, the only way I got my publishers to agree to reprint Masques was to package it with its sequel so they could hide it from the bean-counters -- who would never knowingly agree to reprint a book with such low sales. My editor spend considerable time and effort trying to figure out a way we could get this back into print as a favor to me. I don't think Ace is planning on publishing this one for big money <grin>.
I am certainly not the only writer with out of print books. Masques got caught up in legal hell due to some very savvy "seemed smart at the time" decisions. I am working on the revisions (which will progress faster as soon as I'm through this initial crunch). It is coming slowly because . . . well as I told you Masques suffers tremendously from first book syndrome as well as a bit of Mary Sue which I am cleaning up. I am writing full time plus a bit -- and I'm a wife and mother so full time plus a bit is all I can do. I apologize for the wait -- and will do the best I can to see that the story is worthwhile in the end.
In the meantime, keep an eye out at garage sales and used bookstores. I still get letters from people who find copies for 1/2 cover price to 50 cents.