Jun 29 2008
In light of the recent occurrences at NCP in which the publisher took a partial from an author and inserted it into an anthology without her permission and allowed others to finish the story for her, again without her permission, I wondered what impact that had on readers. Whenever I hear of a publishing fiasco,(…)
Jun 25 2008
Sydney Somers, a former NCP author, released an alert regarding a New Concepts Publishing release. Somers wrote three chapters of a full length novel that was never released but was contracted by NCP last summer. Today, the three chapters has been converted into a novella and inserted into an anthology with two other authors. Somers(…)
May 7 2008
Dear Ms. Levigne, Wow, you certainly do write a wide variety of genres. “The Dark One” (aka “The Dreamer’s Loom“) was one of the first books I reviewed here are DA waaaay back in 2006. I’d been meaning to try some of your other stories, and have quite a backlist of them at Fictionwise, and(…)
Mar 19 2008
According to its owner (or one of its owners), NCP does not engage in any editing of its books. "Editing-the focus of editing in this company has shifted with the times. We spent years trying to help new authors perfect their writing skills by paying editors to tweak the books. Some authors actually appreciated this.(…)
Mar 12 2008
Karen Scott started reporting on this last week and at least one author has gone public. The complaints against New Concepts surprised me since it has been around since 1996 and the reported problems have been associated with newer epublishers. New Concepts publishes in both print and ebook formats. The complaints include the following: Royalties(…)
Jul 9 2006
NCP began publishing in 1996. They sell ebooks and also offer some of their books in print. They have several book categories: Anthologies, Special Collections Contemporary Romance Fantasy and Fantasy Romance HARMONY™ Romance, Multicultural, and Interracial Romance Historicals: Medieval, Western, Regency, and Georgian Historicals: Other Time Periods and Unusual Locales Love Bites™ Short Stories (SENSUAL(…)
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