Comments on: Rumour Has It…

By: candynicks

candynicks — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:35:56 +0000

Publishers mislabelling erotica as romance seems to be the current trend on Fictionwise. Can’t comment specifically on NCP, but they’re not the only publisher doing this. Fictionwise used to be strict in applying their cateogory criteria, these days, not so much.

By: Karen Scott

Karen Scott — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:09:21 +0000

Hairylemony @ gmail . Com no spaces Lleeo

By: Lleeo

Lleeo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:20:36 +0000

Sorry to butt in but I was just wondering what Karen’s email address was? Or whether she gives it out?

I just wanted to send her a funny/naughty gif that I thought she might find funny.

By: Annmarie Ortega

Annmarie Ortega — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:11:58 +0000

I can tell you that the owner does write under at least one pen name for NCP. How do I know this? I sat next to her at the RT Saturday book signing last year in Pittsburgh! LOL (Alphabetical seating and we both have “O” last names…) She had at LEAST six or eight titles there to sign. And I was surprised at how many she sold. I saw women taking one of each title to have signed or saying they had them in ebook and now wanted them in print.

By: Michelle Marquis

Michelle Marquis — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:33:30 +0000

Annmarie I know exactly what NC is looking for when they advertise for “staff writers”. They want writers to produce formula books according to what NC think sells best. From what their guidelines say, they want you to write these books under a deadline, their way and exactly the way they want them AND once you write the book it becomes the property of NC NOT the author. Lather rise repeat.

For the life of me I don’t know why ANYONE writes for them at all. They must be paying their top producers because otherwise I can’t see those people continuing to send them manuscripts. Maybe they only pay their top producers…

I heard a theory on Karen’s blog once that some of the top authors are the company owners themselves but I doubt that because most of those books are long and take a long time to write…but then who knows what the heck is going on there.

By: Annmarie Ortega

Annmarie Ortega — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:22:05 +0000

It does say on the NC home page they are looking for staff writers for developing “company properties.” I’m not exactly sure what that means though.

By: Jody Wallace

Jody Wallace — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:38:01 +0000

I can’t offer any information about NCP in specific, but if the mislabeling you’re talking about is on Fictionwise, Fictionwise has its own way of categorizing books. Samhain books, no matter their content, are often placed in the erotica category, for example.