When do you say good-bye to a publisher?
Jan. 31st, 2008 06:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdNaomi and I are in the process of re-evaluating our publishing options.
Ellora's Cave pays very well, even if the revision process makes us crazy.
We're thinking of sending them more stuff, just for the money. We feel a bit lost in the crowd.
Phaze is doing diddly/squat for us. "Collared Hearts" made about $70 and "Pushing the Boundaries of Reality" hasn't sold AT ALL. It can't even get a review. After "Frosted Hearts" I think we're bidding Phaze farewell.
Circle Dark is a "wait and see" on finances, but I find the editing non-intrusive and I feel like I'm part of the operation there.
The big problem is Torquere.
They don't pay well enough to keep writing for them: $10-50/short. My single shots makes about 50-70 when they're royalties--compare to $260 above. Our novel made about $300/each as a Turn of the Screw serial.
The attitude is very cliquish. (And some things have gotten a little chilly since three midlisters, myself included, reviewed better than a couple of big names in an anthology) When I host the LJ, I'm lucky to get 2 comments. I tried to be the go-to gal, the "hey we need a story fast" writer. I've been with them for almost 4 years. I don't even have a banner to my page on their website. I feel very second-rate, second tier, almost a nuisance there.
I've found typos in a lot of their work. This is not only my stuff, but other authors'. bad proofing.
And the deal breaker: they contracted a story. We were waiting on edits. Then they had a change of editors. We got word that unless we removed all the sexualized violence from the tale, they couldn't take it. They would really prefer a new story altogether.
We're still under contract for that story and a Birthstones story.
And we're close to done with a piece for Love Bites
But after that, I suspect Brooks and Sparrow are leaving TQ
We're considering Aphrodite's Apples.
Ellora's Cave pays very well, even if the revision process makes us crazy.
We're thinking of sending them more stuff, just for the money. We feel a bit lost in the crowd.
Phaze is doing diddly/squat for us. "Collared Hearts" made about $70 and "Pushing the Boundaries of Reality" hasn't sold AT ALL. It can't even get a review. After "Frosted Hearts" I think we're bidding Phaze farewell.
Circle Dark is a "wait and see" on finances, but I find the editing non-intrusive and I feel like I'm part of the operation there.
The big problem is Torquere.
They don't pay well enough to keep writing for them: $10-50/short. My single shots makes about 50-70 when they're royalties--compare to $260 above. Our novel made about $300/each as a Turn of the Screw serial.
The attitude is very cliquish. (And some things have gotten a little chilly since three midlisters, myself included, reviewed better than a couple of big names in an anthology) When I host the LJ, I'm lucky to get 2 comments. I tried to be the go-to gal, the "hey we need a story fast" writer. I've been with them for almost 4 years. I don't even have a banner to my page on their website. I feel very second-rate, second tier, almost a nuisance there.
I've found typos in a lot of their work. This is not only my stuff, but other authors'. bad proofing.
And the deal breaker: they contracted a story. We were waiting on edits. Then they had a change of editors. We got word that unless we removed all the sexualized violence from the tale, they couldn't take it. They would really prefer a new story altogether.
We're still under contract for that story and a Birthstones story.
And we're close to done with a piece for Love Bites
But after that, I suspect Brooks and Sparrow are leaving TQ
We're considering Aphrodite's Apples.
