These guys showed up on a submissions call-tracking site I use. Link: http://www.springsongpress.com/
Run by an indie author, so no apparent commercial publishing experience. Always a minus. Plus side: they've got their niche down pat--the owner also runs http://www.noblebright.org/ and SSP generally puts out calls for same. Basically "noblebright" is the antithesis of "grimdark."
Their only book out at the moment is a "boxed set" that looks like a group of indie authors put their books together. The sales rank on that book is a lot better than I've seen from some startups--in the low 100,000s--though from what little I know of that broad range of non-dismal, non-awesome numbers, it's still not great. They've got submissions open right now for an anthology of noblebright beast tales, and one opening in November for noblebright/grimbright/nobledark stories with the theme of "shards." Currently closed to novel submissions, but for all my time on these forums I'm not sure if I should take that as a good sign or not.
I don't know how hopeful I should be, but I really want this press to succeed. I would love more stories like this out there and a reliable source to get them from. Not what I normally write per se, but I'd enjoy pushing myself to put out something they would enjoy too.
Any experience with them? Any thoughts? Any apprehensions?
Run by an indie author, so no apparent commercial publishing experience. Always a minus. Plus side: they've got their niche down pat--the owner also runs http://www.noblebright.org/ and SSP generally puts out calls for same. Basically "noblebright" is the antithesis of "grimdark."
Their only book out at the moment is a "boxed set" that looks like a group of indie authors put their books together. The sales rank on that book is a lot better than I've seen from some startups--in the low 100,000s--though from what little I know of that broad range of non-dismal, non-awesome numbers, it's still not great. They've got submissions open right now for an anthology of noblebright beast tales, and one opening in November for noblebright/grimbright/nobledark stories with the theme of "shards." Currently closed to novel submissions, but for all my time on these forums I'm not sure if I should take that as a good sign or not.
I don't know how hopeful I should be, but I really want this press to succeed. I would love more stories like this out there and a reliable source to get them from. Not what I normally write per se, but I'd enjoy pushing myself to put out something they would enjoy too.
Any experience with them? Any thoughts? Any apprehensions?
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