FaQ
More items will be added to this as new questions are asked. If your question is not answered here, you may contact us directly.
Sales and Ordering
Q - What are the benefits of pre-ordering?
A - Most pre-orders not only give you access to a product before it goes live (typically a week or more), but products available for pre-order typically are on sale. A typical pre-order sale is 10% off.
A - Most pre-orders not only give you access to a product before it goes live (typically a week or more), but products available for pre-order typically are on sale. A typical pre-order sale is 10% off.
Q - Why pre-order? Why not just wait until I see you at a convention?
A - Pre-ordering, along with the benefits listed above, help us out greatly, as it gives us a better idea of the number of copies to bring with us to conventions. It also helps to more immediately pay for things like cover art, initial advertising, and (in the case of anthologies) author/editor payments.
A - Pre-ordering, along with the benefits listed above, help us out greatly, as it gives us a better idea of the number of copies to bring with us to conventions. It also helps to more immediately pay for things like cover art, initial advertising, and (in the case of anthologies) author/editor payments.
Q - I would like to sell your books at a convention. How do I go about that?
A - Check out our Become a Distributor page for more information.
A - Check out our Become a Distributor page for more information.
Q - I see a title has a certain Bite Level, but I'm still unsure what sort of content warnings I should expect. What should I do?
A - Feel free to contact us with your concerns. If you have any specific items you're looking to avoid, as sometimes topics that aren't sensitive for some are for you, please make sure to mention those in particular. We want to be as transparent as we feasibly can.
A - Feel free to contact us with your concerns. If you have any specific items you're looking to avoid, as sometimes topics that aren't sensitive for some are for you, please make sure to mention those in particular. We want to be as transparent as we feasibly can.
Q - Why buy ebooks from you versus Amazon/other booksellers? Why allow other people to sell them at all?
A - When you purchase an ebook from us, you get all of the available formats for the ebook, which means if you, for example, currently have a Kindle, and get tired of that, you can use the ebook to put the same book on a different, non-Amazon device.
Also, we get the full retail price for the book, and thus we can pay our authors their full royalty rates. This may require you looking up how to add a book to your device of choice manually, but it ensures everyone that worked so hard to bring you the final product gets compensated. When you purchase the ebook from another source, while us and the author still get compensated, it's at a lesser rate, since the entity you purchased the book from will want their own cut, but at least it's a sale, we get money, and you get to enjoy your book.
A - When you purchase an ebook from us, you get all of the available formats for the ebook, which means if you, for example, currently have a Kindle, and get tired of that, you can use the ebook to put the same book on a different, non-Amazon device.
Also, we get the full retail price for the book, and thus we can pay our authors their full royalty rates. This may require you looking up how to add a book to your device of choice manually, but it ensures everyone that worked so hard to bring you the final product gets compensated. When you purchase the ebook from another source, while us and the author still get compensated, it's at a lesser rate, since the entity you purchased the book from will want their own cut, but at least it's a sale, we get money, and you get to enjoy your book.
Submissions and Queries
Q - I see you aren't open for submissions, but I really want to send you this story anyway! Should I?
A - No, 100% not. Our submission guidelines (including dates of when certain markets are open) act not only as guide to prepare you story for us to read, but they also act as a test to see if you can follow directions (and thus work with an editor). Ignoring any part of the guidelines, especially something as major as submitting to us when we aren't open, not only will ensure your story doesn't get read, but might make us consider not reading your work in the future.
A - No, 100% not. Our submission guidelines (including dates of when certain markets are open) act not only as guide to prepare you story for us to read, but they also act as a test to see if you can follow directions (and thus work with an editor). Ignoring any part of the guidelines, especially something as major as submitting to us when we aren't open, not only will ensure your story doesn't get read, but might make us consider not reading your work in the future.
Q - I want to submit this story, but I don't know if it adheres to your content guidelines. Will I be faulted for submitting if it doesn't?
A - 99 times out of 100, you will not be. The most common case of this is the question, "Does my story fit the anthology theme?" If you can sell us upon submission that you believe it does, we'll look at it. Who knows? Maybe we are super into your loose interpretation of the theme, and it can be a standout in the collection.
That 1 time out of 100 would likely mean we asked for you to specifically not include a topic (hate against a specific group of people, rape (which includes sex with those that can't consent), etc.) and you included it anyway. Then we would indeed hold that against you. So don't do that.
A - 99 times out of 100, you will not be. The most common case of this is the question, "Does my story fit the anthology theme?" If you can sell us upon submission that you believe it does, we'll look at it. Who knows? Maybe we are super into your loose interpretation of the theme, and it can be a standout in the collection.
That 1 time out of 100 would likely mean we asked for you to specifically not include a topic (hate against a specific group of people, rape (which includes sex with those that can't consent), etc.) and you included it anyway. Then we would indeed hold that against you. So don't do that.