My experience with my editor at NSP has been absolutely top-notch. I'm really pleased with how things have been progressing with them, and would happily work with them for future projects.
Same here. I've seen other houses where the editing was so slapdash that terrible typos, punctuation, and even tense problems got through printing...so much that the readership noted them in reviews. There are some small errors in my work with NSP, but for the most part the editing is brilliant, and better than I can afford right now.
As a matter of fact I just tonight subbed a proposal for a M/M Neolithic fantasy novella I've had kicking around. About 8K is written, but I think I can get it to 25K easily. We'll see what they say. I have to build a backlist like *yesterday*, whether with NSP or self-pub.
(Wanders off, considering cover art for it just in case.)
But it's a bit flattering, and a huge relief to stop this round of agent hunting.
I can now announce NineStar Press will be publishing my M/M/F fantasy quest-romance 'The Purist'. We don't have a date yet, but sometime in 2018.
This is my secondary-world high fantasy LGBTQIA riff on the Orpheus myth. Rather than spend another two years on the agent-hunt or lobbing the rewritten version back to Tor and DAW, I pitched it to NineStar.
They're really interested in all the proposals I just sent them, too, for the big multibook series that expands this one. I'm cautious about signing too many of those too soon, given the upheavals of my life. But it's a bit flattering, and a huge relief to stop this round of agent hunting.
if I haven't sweated and shaken through at least three detailed passes, I feel like none of us have earned our way.
I just signed a contract with NineStar for my YA urban fantasy novel. This book was my baby - one I've worked on for over 10 years then got over 100 agent rejections for while making all the newbie query mistakes. I'm thrilled NineStar is publishing it, and feel they really are the perfect home for it!!
We all wish you a whole bunch of sales. Congratulations.
As the production proceeds, will you keep us appraised of what's happening? I'm especially interested in what input they want for cover art, how much time you get for edits, and how they promote your work.
We all wish you a whole bunch of sales. Congratulations.
As the production proceeds, will you keep us appraised of what's happening? I'm especially interested in what input they want for cover art, how much time you get for edits, and how they promote your work.
I was thinking of submitting here. Does anyone know how this company would stack up against, let's say, a small press like Wild Rose Books?
I'd previously had an offer from Wild Rose, but the consensus on them seemed to be - great press, lovely people, nice covers, but very low royalties. Would Nine Star Press be considered better than Wild Rose?