Midnight Tide Publishing

[Filigree]

Website here: https://www.midnighttidepublishing.com/

'Author Co-op Publisher' has no editors or cover artists on staff, wants the author to do all that, so I'm not quite sure what value they offer beyond a clubhouse.

They are/will be looking for YA, New Adult, & Adult SFF, among other things.

Still researching, but apparently at least one of their authors had an agent involved in the sale? Or the book attracted the agent, author then left agent, author signed with MTP?

I apologize if this is a repeat, since I could not find it in the index.

 

[Marian Perera]

From their website :

While you're responsible for cover design, formatting, editing, and uploading your piece of work, we are here every step of the way with you. We have a list of resources with discounts offered, and tutorials for everything.

So what do you get in return?

You have the advantage of being part of a house, with amazing housemates, opportunities for collaborations, and more. All the while maintaining 100% control of your rights and royalties.

Which you'd have anyway if you self-published, and it's not as though there are no other ways to connect with other writers.

We were founded in 2020 by an amazing core group of authors from every walk of the industry who had either never published before or were looking into reviving previously published books.

This does sound amazing. Amazingly amateur.

Our primary mission is to create an amazing, friendly, and reliable team for our authors, who will always be there to help and pick up one another.

Too bad my primary mission is to sell books.

 

[mrsmig]

Although Midnight Tide Publishing has a social media footprint (mostly through their platforms, their authors' platforms and virtual blog tour material), its footprint as a business is nonexistent. Their business address as listed on the website is a private residence in the Greater Boston area. I couldn't find the company in the Massachusetts Corporation Division listings, nor on LinkedIn. I was able to find the co-owner of the residence on LinkedIn, where she's listed as the owner of a candle company at that same address. After comparing her photo on that business' website with that of author Elle Beaumont on the MTP site, it's clear they're one and the same - so it's likely she's the owner of MTP as well.

Like Marian Perera, I wonder what benefit MTP offers its authors. Since they are the publisher of record, it's clear they must provide the ISBNs. Their books are available through Ingram, Baker & Taylor and Brodart, but there's no marketing team listed, so no one at MTP is working to get those books onto shelves. There's no promotional team, either, so I assume it's on the authors to pimp their own and each others' books (where the co-op part comes in). MTP doesn't offer editing of any kind, nor cover art. So: ISBNs, inclusion in catalogs and a group that will "help and pick up one another." And since this is a group comprised of never-published authors and (best case scenario) mid-list authors or below with a backlist, where's the expertise/experience? Where's the advantage in being published by MTP?

Which raises the next question: how in the world does MTP makes its money? Someone's got to be paying for the website, the distributors and the ISBNs. If authors "maintain 100% control of your rights and royalties", then where is MTP's revenue stream? In candle sales?