Kudos to Liquid Silver Books for being willing to expand beyond the standard and invite the attention of a broader reader/author base! I am thrilled to be working with them as my e-publisher, and going by comments read here, my feelings are true. :)

I am one author who is thrilled with these changes at Liquid Silver. I think I have found a home for the kind of erotic romances that truly make me happy to write.

I’m looking forward to finding out more about my new publisher! All the comments here tell me I’ve found a good place for my work.

Regarding the Sterling line and its sales potential: We’ve heard this is wanted from both readers and authors, and in conjunction with looking for more submissions, thought this might help to open up the flood gates some. I agree with you K.Z., I’m very interested to see if the multitude of requests for this, will actually result in sales for it. I would be more than happy to share what sales information I can at a later time. I’d say a year from now, as we’re just now starting to receive Sterling level subs and have only actually pubbed one so far.

The “themes” and Firemen actually came from a brainstorm on how to get more submissions in. We’re not going to start only publishing themed stories, but it was a way for me to get LSB in front of authors. We’re always looking for all genres, but how many times can you send out “general” submission calls before it feels like we’re beating authors over the head with it.

Increasing submissions vs. relaxing standards: Like Jody said, looking for more submissions coming in. I felt like we were very “under the radar” to many non-LSB authors which on one hand was good, we take pride in not being blog fodder :) but on the other hand, not so good. We have a very loyal following in house, my goal is to make that house bigger.

We’ve only relaxed our heat level, our standard of acceptance is still stringent and I don’t plan on relaxing that anytime soon. :)

Anyone can feel free to contact me directly too, if you have any questions!

I really hope the new heat level works out. Variety = excellent!

I’m confused by the phrase increasing submissions. Does it mean encouraging different types of submissions or adopting a more lax acceptance policy? The latter is not a good thing, especially if it’s done simply to pack the stable and churn out more books than one’s competitors.

I wonder, too, about the success potential of a themed series — any themed series. It’s been my impression that readers tend to burn out on them.

This category will feature stories that allow for emotional buildup leading to the culmination of relationship sex, longer sensual tension.

Just the sort of story I prefer. Liquid Silver has a new fan. If they publish a lot of these type of stories, they will be my number one site to buy books online.