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Frequently Asked Questions:
A word on cover art: Covers come with LIT and most newer PDF ebooks. They do NOT come with RTF and HTML books for the simple reason that it DOUBLES the ebook's size. If you would like the artwork to go with your book, you can save it off the excerpt page of the book by right clicking on the cover.
Are you subsidy? No, we are not. We do not offer advances at this time, but we are a royalty paying house and submissions go through much the same selection process as they would with any other publishing house. What are your royalty rates? Royalties differ from book to book, however, we commonly pay 30% to 40% on direct download sales. Do you provide ISBN numbers? Yes. We assign an ISBN number once the contract is received and the book scheduled. Are your cover artists freelance or in-house? Both. Much of our cover art is done by local artists, however, we have many artists we have met over the internet and they do work for us as well. What rights do you buy? Exclusive electronic rights for a specified amount of time, usually four years but sometimes less. POD and Trade print rights are also optioned, but this doesn't necessarily mean that a book will come out in print with NCP. How do you decide what goes into print? This is based mostly on performance of the ebook edition and expressed interest by readers and booksellers for the print edition. If there isn't a reasonable amount of interest, a title will not go into print. If the ebook edition has performed poorly, it will not go into print. What is your contract length time? Contract time is two (for short stories) to four years from time of signing. Can you renew your contract with NCP? Most of the time, yes. If I sell to a paper publisher and they want all rights, can I withdraw my book? If we have invested time and money in the book, NO. If we have not, then yes. How long does it take NCP to respond to submissions? About two to four months though sometimes longer if submissions are particularly heavy. Do you accept electronic submissions? We do accept emailed queries at submissions@newconceptspublishing.com . So much of our time is spent on the computer that we cannot take up more valuable time downloading submissions and reading them on the computer. We also have older readers who do not have access to a computer. We accept disk submissions from authors outside of the US for the simple reason that it saves money for foreign authors. (A 300 page book shipped from Australia costs $50.00 to ship!) Do you provide copyright? We do not file for copyright because the author retains ownership of the book. The author remains the owner of the book and is responsible for filing copyright. What do you do to promote your books? We have many ways that we promote NCP and our authors. We participate in literacy signings, bookfairs, conferences, trade shows, magazine and newspaper interviews, banner advertising, press releases, contests, sales, trade advertising, etc. We also send out review copies to a dozen or so review sites. Currently, we are focusing on the retail market and are expanding our books into online bookstores as well as physical bookstores. We also sale our Trade Paperbacks through Waldenbooks and distribute through LSI to Ingram, Bertrams, Baker & Taylor, and others. Our goal is to make NCP books easily accessible to people anywhere and we are always busy looking for new avenues. Do you look at unpublished writer's work? Yes, all the time. Do you accept multiple submissions? We will no longer look at manuscripts that are being looked at by other publishers. Should I send the full book or a partial? We really want to see the entire manuscript. It takes us nearly as long to see a partial as it does to look at an entire ms. and it just saves time to view the book in its entirety. Do you post reviews and author news to the page? At this time we no longer add reviews to the website. It simply takes too much time. This will likely change once we've added on a full time webmaster/webmistress. Do you accept short stories? We are only taking erotic or spicy short stories at this time, and they should be romantic. Strictly erotic short stories might be accepted, but this is always an author by author issue. Please check our submission guidelines for more details. Do you withhold taxes from royalties? No. This is the author's responsibility. Why should I choose NCP over another epublisher? I cannot give you a definitive answer to this, only that we try to remain fair to and respectful of each author we come in contact with and are committed to expanding our market through any and all means available to us. To get a better idea of how we work and what's it's like to be with NCP, contact one of our authors. How long does it take to be published once the contract is signed? This depends on our workload, how much work must go into the book, and how high demand is for that book. In some cases, it is only a few months, in others, in can be just over a year. If an author sells multiple titles to us, we try to schedule their books out around three months apart, unless they are particularly prolific, and then it can be every month or bi-monthly, etc. Why don't you put the books up for sale sooner? We require lead time to do editing, artwork, and bookstore promotion, and authors require lead time to arrange advertising and reviews. If everything is done early, we often release the book earlier than expected. Do you accept all fiction genres or only romance?We are looking for all genres. For more information about submitting, go here. Do you have books on disk? No. What formats are your books in?RTF, HTML, MS Reader, MobiPocket, and PDF. What is the compatibility of your formats? RTF is our most versatile format and can be read on most word processing programs. HTML can be read by any web browser. MS Reader format is compatible with the newer handhelds, some PDAs, and you can also download a free reader to read this format as well. PDF is read by Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or higher. Where else can I find NCP titles? Our books can be bought through Waldenbooks, Borders, Amazon.com, Powell's books, previewport.com, handango.com, memoware, Bookisle, The Mage bookstore, Walmart.com, Ebookmall, Fictionwise, Ebooks.com, Yahoo, Officemax.com, and many more online stores through Content Reserve. NCP books are also available through LSI, Ingrams, Baker & Taylor Distributors and can be ordered through your local bookstore using the ISBN of the title.
About NCP:New Concepts Publishing, the first totally electronic romance publishing house, was established in the spring of 1996. Its founder, Madris DePasture, had been a member of Romance Writers of America since the early 90s and was a published author. In her ‘other’ life, she was owner of a successful construction company, which she started in the early 80s. Her first career, however, was in computer science. She had been working with computers for more than 20 years when she first conceived the idea of an electronic publishing company, an idea spawned by the trend she saw towards development of alternate materials to replace the growing inability of the tree industry to keep up with demand. New Concepts Publishing went on-line with their first four novels, Amber Moment, Lord of Chaos, Liar’s Poker, and Shattered Dreams, in October of 1996. At first publishing only 2 to 4 novels a month, they are now publishing 8 to 16 novels and short stories a month. Although NCP began by focusing on the romance genre, they now publish an ever widening variety of genre fiction, including erotica, erotic romance, short contemporary duets, science fiction/fantasy, historical romance, westerns, horror, anthologies, paranormal romance, and more. The primary goal of New Concepts Publishing, from it’s inception, was to bring high quality fiction to book lovers. By offering our authors generous royalty percentages and creative freedom, we’ve not only attracted many fine authors, but can offer work ‘written from the heart’, fresh, excitingly different stories stringent guidelines would not allow. |
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BOOK LENGTH: Epic Novel = 100,000 words and up; 400 pages and up (double-spaced) SENSUALITY RATING: SWEET: behind-closed-doors sex and/or very mild love scenes and sexual encounters
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