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I know I am playing with fire by posting this, however, I can’t help but express how disappointed and saddened I am at some apparent irregularities being reported pertaining to a long standing favorite e-publisher of mine: New Concepts Publishing. This is an e-publisher that has been around for well over five years. This is an e-publisher from which I have purchased many enjoyable stories, from sweet to scorchingly hot in the heat level department. I have authors from this e-publisher in my autobuy list. This was the first e-publisher from which I purchased romance in genres other than erotic.

I have to admit that over the past couple of years I had noticed a couple of things. Notable poor editing, books not being sent to us for review (although I have to say that they were always pretty erratic in the sending of their books to us). I also heard about problems from some of my friends in getting the downloads of their purchases (in one instance, a friend had to wait WEEKS to get hers, and the customer service department was quite unresponsive. She does not bother with them any longer). I also noticed how stories from some of my autobuy authors from that publisher became more and more sparse, to the point in which I haven’t seen any releases from any of them in ages. These are seemingly small issues, but it does appear now, after reading the reports (more and more reports keep surfacing), that these problems were more prevalent than I initially thought. One thing that has come as a big surprise to me, as a reader, is that the owners actually write and have their books exclusively published there ... and they are authors in my autobuy list. This publisher opened a physical office recently (or so I was led to believe from their website). Since all the reports do seem to indicate financial problems, I wonder if their opening said offices has anything to do with what is going on.

Anyway, I am not going to conjecture about what may be going on. However, I do hope this is all solved for the sake of their authors and for the sake of the publisher itself. As I said, I enjoyed many wonderful moments reading some of their books and this really has disappointed me quite a bit. Of course, if my favorite authors there go, I will follow them... I don't care where they are published, they are still autobuys and for good reason, at least in my book.