Shadowfall Publications

nkkingston · Apr 14, 2013

The facebook page has someone asking if the publisher is still around back in November. I'm beginning to suspect they actually closed up shop a while ago and forgot to take down the website.

triceretops · Apr 14, 2013

Know what? I think you might be right on that account. They could have closed up shop suddenly.

tri

Scathe · Apr 14, 2013

IP

How would closing up shop and leaving a website operating account for unauthorized shared intellectual property?

veinglory · Apr 14, 2013

To me: still has books for sale = still operating.

nkkingston · Apr 15, 2013

Scathe said:
How would closing up shop and leaving a website operating account for unauthorized shared intellectual property?

If you want the most generous of generous interpretations, it could be that having forgotten about the site, an update on their host fubared their index page and left everything submitted through their online submissions system naked for the world to see. It's appearance on other websites is due to people taking advantage of the situation to harvest all the subbed manuscripts.

However, as Veinglory points out, works still being for sale suggests the publisher is still operating on some level, at least in terms of receiving payments for those works.

Scathe · Apr 19, 2013

Russian Site

I wrote the Russian site and requested removal of my book. They removed it.

PVish · Apr 20, 2013

A March 11 post on their Facebook Page:

Friends we have been away for a while. There are a lot of big things happening at Shadowfall right now. Be on the lookout for announcements!

triceretops · Apr 20, 2013

Ah, back from the semi-dead. Okay.

Scathe · Apr 20, 2013

No thanks, Shadowfall. Not after that fiasco. I'm sure I'm not alone.

PVish · Apr 21, 2013

PVish said:
A March 11 post on their Facebook Page:

Oops! That was March 2012.

Scathe · Apr 21, 2013

Mistakes

We all make mistakes, but I doubt they'll be back, under that name at least.

veinglory · Apr 21, 2013

Except , as mentioned, they are still vending books under that name right now

Scathe · Apr 21, 2013

Published

Maybe some of the authors they published should weigh in. Lisa Mannetti? Tracy Carbone? Got anything to share?

PVish · Apr 23, 2013

Could Shadowfall have become Shadowridge? Their "flagship author" is one of the two Shadowfall authors mentioned in the previous post. One of her books was published by Shadowridge in Oct. 2012; the other in March 2013. Her Shadowfall book was published in January 2012, but the book's description is exactly like this book published in 2010 by Quake but with a different title. She's very prolific, for she also had several e-books (self?)-published for Kindle in 2012.

Shadowfall's other author won a Bram Stoker award for this 2008 Darkheart Press book, but the same book was published by Shadowfall in 2010.

Curiouser & curiouser.

triceretops · Apr 23, 2013

Hmmm...reprints, it looks like. Not so unusual, I reckon.

Scathe · Apr 23, 2013

Those who have been negatively affected by Shadowfall, who may now be Shadowridge, should write them and ask questions, as I have done.

BTW, Dark Hart went under in 2009 or 10, I believe, which explains the reprint. If they were still around, a warning would be given about them here>>>

Scathe · Apr 24, 2013

Shadowridge

Robert Barr of Shadowridge asserts, in an email to me, that they were not Shadowfall.

TracyCarbone · Apr 25, 2013

Shadowfall is not Shadowridge

As Robert Barr of Shadowridge stated, they are in NO WAY affiliated with Shadowfall. His is a new quality Indie press that up till now has published only my titles; however, The Proteus Cure, a collaboration between F. Paul Wilson and me, is slated for a 5-1-13 release. See here. http://www.amazon.com/The-Proteus-Cure-Paul-Wilson/dp/0615795870/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1366828860&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=the+proteus+cure

I can clarify about the titles though. Lisa Manetti, originally with Dark Hart, left them and went with Shadowfall for her reprint. She recommended them to me. Shadowfall published my book, The Soul Collector. Shadowfall told me shortly after that he was getting out of the business and I could have my rights back. I did not get any advance, and did my own marketing as agreed.
So I switched to the newly formed Shadowridge (in dark fiction you will probably see a lot of Shadows in names). I do have my rights back to Soul Collector officially in writing, but have not yet republished that title through Shadowridge because I haven’t been able to get Shadowfall to take the book down from Amazon. Shadowfall rarely returns emails. He promised to remove the title but has not.
If Shadowfall is advertising they are back in business I would steer clear for all the reasons listed in previous posts.
To sum up: ShadowRIDGE- good, ShadowFALL-bad.

LindaJeanne · Apr 25, 2013

Quoted for the sake of those who, like me, found the font painful to read on-screen

TracyCarbone said:
As Robert Barr of Shadowridge stated, they are in NO WAY affiliated with Shadowfall. His is a new quality Indie press that up till now has published only my titles; however, The Proteus Cure, a collaboration between F. Paul Wilson and me, is slated for a 5-1-13 release. See here. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615795870/?tag=absowrit-20

I can clarify about the titles though. Lisa Manetti, originally with Dark Hart, left them and went with Shadowfall for her reprint. She recommended them to me. Shadowfall published my book, The Soul Collector. Shadowfall told me shortly after that he was getting out of the business and I could have my rights back. I did not get any advance, and did my own marketing as agreed.

So I switched to the newly formed Shadowridge (in dark fiction you will probably see a lot of Shadows in names). I do have my rights back to Soul Collector officially in writing, but have not yet republished that title through Shadowridge because I haven’t been able to get Shadowfall to take the book down from Amazon. Shadowfall rarely returns emails. He promised to remove the title but has not.

If Shadowfall is advertising they are back in business I would steer clear for all the reasons listed in previous posts.
To sum up: ShadowRIDGE- good, ShadowFALL-bad.

PVish · Apr 26, 2013

Ah, that clears it up. Thanks, Tracy, for the explanation.

triceretops · Jun 17, 2013

I'm getting a 403 Forbidden when I go to their site. Something's wonky.

tri

JulieB · Jun 17, 2013

Could mean they're putting up a new site...

triceretops · Jun 17, 2013

They've had one of my (form) fulls since 1-14-2013 and haven't responded to a nudge. Nada.

tri

JulieB · Jun 18, 2013

Looks like their listing has been removed from Duotrope. And I see here that someone (anonymously) posts that the press is defunct.

Scathe · Jun 18, 2013

Folks, please try to see that the concensus, via all of our posts, is that Shadowfall is no more. Let's archive this and cut our losses. I was able to write the Russian porn site and have them remove what Shadowfuck allowed them to have without my permission.

Oh, and I'm not anywhere near a "New Fish."

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