Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

PW published an excellent mini Q&A  with the major publishers of the day regarding the state of digital publishing.  Highlights include:

Penguin Group USA's net e-book sales are up 500% over 2007, and we expect e-books to continue to sell strongly.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt:  Our e-book sales are 10 times a month now what they were [...]

What’s new and exciting at LSB? 2008 has been a year of renewal for Liquid Silver. First stage was increasing our staff. Tina Burns took over the role of Publisher to lead LSB in an expansion phase by increasing submissions, author retention, and moving Liquid Silver to be more visible in the ePublishing world. [...]

I received a warning regarding Ocean’s Mist Press and a question as to its current status. Apparently sometime in 2006, Ocean Mist announced that it would be closing its doors. Then in early 2007, it was announced that there would be new management. No books were released, although the submissions page gives [...]

Samhain announced a week or so ago that it was closed for submissions. When it re-opens, it will be accepting only romance oriented submissions. I would dearly love to see more urban fantasy romance. The full text of the new announcement follows:
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When we re-open for submissions, we will be refocusing the company's [...]

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I’m going to make people angry with this post, of that I have no doubt. But frankly, this post falls under “my blog. . . do what I want.” With that proviso in mind, read on.
Jayne and I have been avid e-readers for many years now and when we first started [...]

According to emails, comments, and other sources, it appears that head of Mardi Gras Publishing that went under earlier in 2007 has started a new epublishing venture called LA Media. According to some reports, Teresa Jacobs aka Teresa Wayne failed to provide renumeration to editors, cover artists and authors owed under Mardi [...]