Twilight Times Books / Paladin Timeless Books

You want Bewares and Background Checks. Be sure to peruse the previous posts, as this may very well have been addressed in the past.

Good luck!

Kristen

I've moved this thread from Ask the Agent to Bewares, where it's better suited.

- Victoria

Here's the link:
http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/subs.html

Shiraz said:

Thanks, Popeyesays. I do have the link to their website and I've done a check as to their legitimacy. Maybe I wasn't clear - I just wanted to know if anyone here has had any PERSONAL experience with them to add to what I already know.

Appreciate the time taken, however.

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Twilight Times was founded by Linda Quillen. I've never worked with her as a writer but I have had correspondence with her over the years from one editor to another and found her pleasant. The publisher has been around since 1999, so that shows stability. She's always come across as serious about publishing. That's my experience, anyways, FWIW.

Shiraz said:

Thanks, Popeyesays. I do have the link to their website and I've done a check as to their legitimacy. Maybe I wasn't clear - I just wanted to know if anyone here has had any PERSONAL experience with them to add to what I already know.

Appreciate the time taken, however.

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I assume Popeyesays listed that link so that those who want to do further research for you can be sure they are checking out the correct place. Sometimes there are businesses with the same or similar names and it makes it easier for all the savvy researchers out there to help you. =)

That said, good luck!

Twilight Times Books

http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/

I wondered if anyone here knew anything about them.

From the Website:

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Twilight Times Books is a royalty paying small press print publisher. Due to an exceptional front list of books, all with four star reviews, the print division of Twilight Times Books launched twenty-one titles in trade paperback in 2004. Our books are distributed internationally through B.C.H. and Florida Academic Press. Download versions of our books are available in PDF, HTML or Palm formats.
LIT, RB or Hiebook formats are available as a special order. You you can expect delivery via email within 4 - 6 hours of placing your order.[/FONT]

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A Few More Facts

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]You might like to know the story behind the story of Twilight Times Books. I'm a publisher who is a lover of literature and storytelling. When I first discovered the Internet, I was amazed at the number of highly talented and yet unpublished writers I kept meeting.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In June 1998, I started Twilight Times ezine to showcase great writing. For the past five years, TT ezine has placed in the top twenty ezines on the internet for both fiction and poetry in the Preditors and Editors™ Readers Poll, a reader's annual survey of the best on the web.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Twilight Times Books was established January 1999 as an epublisher. In 2004, we evolved from an Internet epublisher to a small press print publisher. TT Books is currently expanding into hard cover as well as paperback books and will be seeking new distributors for both ebooks and print books in the coming months. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]At Twilight Times Books our mission is to promote excellence in writing and great literature. We're dedicated to enhancing the prospects of getting great literary, New Age and SF/F books into the hands of readers.[/FONT]

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Twilight Times is a reputable small press e-publisher run by Lida E. Quillen. Their e-books show up at Fictionwise and other e-book vendors so they have distribution. It's been around for just about forever (in the Internet sense), so they have staying power. NB: I've never worked with her as an author but when I was running my own e-zines and small press we had occassional contact.

Their book covers are beautiful, I loved several and would def. pick them up and read blurbs.

I took a look and read sample chapters of one novel. Impressive.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anywhere how many books they've sold. Should we know such information before submitting?

Amazon lists 47 titles. Many appear to be priced at list (no discount) which puts me in mind of some POD publishers.

With that many titles and Amazon's new-ish Connect program, you can probably find the contact info of some of their authors. Why not drop them a line and ask about their experience with Twilight Times?

I have a friend who published with them and I think he was reasonably pleased. The cover design was really nice. My only qualm was that there were sort of a load of typos in the book, but a more careful reading of the final proof might take care of that.

I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything of TT recently? I see they still have books on the way, but I subbed a query on the first day of their last open period (July) and still haven't heard back - and I've heard the same thing from others. They say response time is max 2 mnths, and I'm a few days past that. I'll wait till October before trying a follow up, but I was just curious if anyone else has subbed recently without response.

I haven't heard anything either. I submitted the first day they opened up.

they've been sitting on a story of mine "scheduled for the Summer 2006 issue" for over a year.

responses to my email are spotty, at best. Last contact I had with her was the above-mentioned date in July, 2006.

me no happy.

I queried them with synopsis and partial in February. Ms. Quillen said she was intrigued and asked for the whole thing, and of course I sent it to her.

I have heard nothing since.

Yes I wrote Linda the early this week--same thing, no reply. Must be swamped.

Anyone had any recent experience with them? Thanks.

I got a reasonably quick rejection from them. I don't remember what it was for, though.

I couple years back I sent a partial. It took almost 2 months for them to respond. They asked for the full manuscript. It took a little over 3 months to get the rejection. They sent a short letter explaining why.

This author seems happy with them. http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977819160. I read Tremolo, and it was very well written, laid out well, nice cover, good editing.

kap