I have a story I'd like to share about these folks.
In November 2020, I was accepted for an anthology based on a crossover between the Cthulhu Mythos and Arthurian Legend called Shadows Over Avalon. I got the contract for it in June 2021, signed it, with the expected release date of Halloween 2021.
Halloween 2021 came and went, with no release, and few updates. In my time with this publisher, there were periods where they would send out emails assuring us that publication was imminent, and then go radio silent for up to four months. It got to the point where several people in my life just assumed that the anthology in question had been cancelled. Eventually, volume 1 came out in September 2022, Volume 2 in December.
I don't hold it against them; from what I understand, this is a very small publisher and at the time, they were going through a whole mess of life-altering events, between the COVID pandemic and the printer they were using for the physical editions screwing them over in some way, forcing them to switch printers at the 11th hour. But I still found my experience with them frustrating for a few reasons.
1) Emails from them kept getting lost on their way from their accounts to mine. I don't know how or what happened.
2) They asked us interview questions for publication and then proceeded to just... not publish them for whatever reason.
3) There was a clause on the contracts that said that if the stories went unpublished after eighteen months for whatever reason, the rights reverted back to the author. Assuming everyone received and signed their contracts around the same time I did, by the time Volume 2 released, there were less than two weeks left to meet that deadline.
Also: they pay based on a percentage of net profits, and only if those profits reach a certain threshold. As of writing, I've gotten $5.26 from my 5000-some word short story.
