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Heeding the Warning Signals in ePublishing

By Jane • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: Ebooks, Letters of Opinion, Misc

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, I [...]



Publisher Alert: New Concepts Publishing Releasing Unauthorized Material

By Jane • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Ebooks, Publishing News

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 [...]



REVIEW: Damsels in Distress: The Prince and the Pickpocket by Michelle Levigne (2/07)

By Jayne • May 7th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

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 finally [...]



Readers of New Concepts Publishing Books Beware

By Jane • Mar 19th, 2008 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

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 [...]



New Concepts Publishing Under Heat by Authors

By Jane • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: Ebooks, Misc

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 [...]



REVIEW: Ebook Weekly: New Concepts Publishing Review

By Jayne • Jul 9th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Bookstore, Ebooks, Reviews

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 to CARNAL), [...]