[Publisher] Ravenous Romance

worth less than the paper they were printed on. However, if they are going to insist on paying royalties rather than a flat fee for anthologised stories,

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---Some RR anthology editors have negotiated changes in the boilerplate anthology contract that have paid the contributors a slightly higher flat fee instead of an advance. I think I will do that for any future anthologies I may edit to avoid the issue of calculating per-rata royalties.

In case anybody cares, I can report that it is indeed possible to sell in excess of 5,000 copies of a single Ravenous Romance book in one year, via some of their lines. Not all of them, mind you, but some.

veinglory said:

Payment threshold are pretty common, but that doesn't stop an automatically-generated sales report being sent--and the threshold is generally more like $10-$25 : /

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Yep. My husband gets a sales report every six months for his dissertation (published by one of those academic dissertation-republishing companies almost 20 years ago) and a payout whenever the royalties top $25 US.

One reason to consider the royalties option on RR short story anthologies would be the resale of print rights on that anthology. Ravenous has done this for several anthologies, most notably to St. Martin's Press (also Cleis Press and a couple others). So there is potential to earn significant dollars there if print rights are resold. But as of right now, they've only resold print rights on a handful of their anthologies.

My story was in one of those e-anthologies for which the print rights were sold to a larger press.... still haven't seen anything remotely resembling a royalty statement, though.

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All you can do is contact the person who edited the anthology. That is part of their job per our contract. I do know it's way too soon to have collected any $$ from the print deal, too. The print publishing world works at a dead snail's pace when it comes to payment.

Unimportant, if it's the anthology I'm thinking of, that deal was done in the fourth quarter? So those statements haven't even gone out yet.

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Unimportant, if it's the anthology I'm thinking of, that deal was done in the fourth quarter? So those statements haven't even gone out yet.

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But Unimporant hasn't received any royalty statements for the e-book version either, and that was published nine months ago.

who's the editor? I might be able to help you get in touch w/ him/her.

if the book has been out nine months you are owed at least two statements, if not three. Write RR staff direct and tell them your editor isn't communicating with you.

Anyone have any recent experience with them? I was curious about turn time on submissions? Their web says 2 weeks... just curious if that's really the average? Some state a time frame, but take ten times that to respond... *lol* Anywho... don't care much about assumptions and perceptions... if you've actually dealt with RR... what was the response time? I have a short on sub with them, but we're still in the 2 week period, so I can't answer my own question... Hehehe.

Just an update. Ravenous didn't respond within the 2 weeks as noted on their submission guidelines, so I sent them a polite note for a status update, since another publisher I was going to submit too needed to know the status. I'm happy to report Ravenous responded to the request in less than an hour with a professional and polite update. Much faster than I expected.

The bad news was, that they are still considering my submission(oh, wait, that's good news...), but estimate it will take them another month to review it. So, in answer to my own question, it appears they are swamped and take considerably longer than advertised to respond to queries. So if you submit there, keep that in mind.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/art...Ravenous_Romance_to_Do_P_books_of_E_books.php

Ravenous strikes new deal with another print pub.

Hi Brindle!

I don't have anything helpful to add on their response time, but I did recently contract with them for a short story in one of their anthologies. I've had a great experience with them from an author/publisher perspective

Also, I feel like all of the RR authors are like a big family. All are very nice, friendly to one another, and fun to chat with on line!!

It took seven weeks to hear back on my anthology sub last year (accepted). Good luck!

I'm happy and sad to report that RR did get back to me, sooner than expected. They were very professional and courteous in their rejection. It looked to be a form letter, but it felt warm to me. While I was rejected, my experience with them has all been positive, except for turn time, which improved after the full was requested. I will submit to them again.

So you wouldn't go with them again?