Loose ID is shutting down – Claiming that the move does not signal “financial distress,” digital publisher Loose ID is nonetheless closing its doors as of May 7, 2018. They are no longer accepting submissions. Loose ID has been publishing erotic fiction for 13 years, practically a lifetime in digital ... more >
Meghan Markle, the Hallmark Star Set to Marry a Prince – Romance Twitter was very excited on Monday, when news of the royal engagement between Prince Harry and US across Meghan Markle was finally announced. Someone tamed the bad boy – how much better can it get for the Romance ... more >
Macmillan’s Pronoun Self-Publishing Platform Signs Off – If you’ve never heard of Pronoun, you may know the company by its former name, Vook. Pronoun’s closure announcement is somewhat vague (“Macmillan is unable to continue Pronoun’s operation in its current form”) and they seem to be retaining the data and analytics ... more >
Millions of Americans Have Free Amazon Credits. Here’s How to Check Yours – A friendly reminder that if you have unused Apple settlement credits, they will expire Saturday, June 24th, 2017. I’m not sure that mainstream publishing even remembers the trouble they faced, given current e-book prices (or maybe because they ... more >
Hachette’s new order – An interesting piece in The Bookseller on the way in which UK publishing appears to be trending downward in the age of its executives, while US publishing continues to trend older. Why the difference, and what does it mean? Does age necessitate experience, or does it signal ... more >
Samhain to close February 28th – Although the website does not, as of this point, reflect the news, apparently emails have been going out to alert readers to the imminent closing of Samhain. Given the past history of back-and-forth on this issue, I’m not calling it over yet. There are ... more >