Rachel’s Comments (group member since Jun 13, 2011)

Rachel’s comments from the Riptide Publishing group.

Want to chat with Lisa Henry? Do it here :)

Garrick wrote: "OK, I did it! I pressed the send button. Phew! "

Congrats! We're all looking forward to diving in to the open call subs soon :D

♆ BookAddict wrote: "Rachel wrote: "AND WE'RE BACK! Check out our shiny new site, with some shiny new features and some shiny new celebratory sales, now through August 12! http://www.riptidepublishing.com/"

I never me..."

Glad you do, thank you! :D

Garrick wrote: "Quick question Rachel....120,000 word limit for novel. Not being funny here, but is there any leeway in this word count? About to start editing first draft and need to know how much I have to trim ..."

There's leeway for genres where that kind of word count may truly be necessary (mostly epic fantasy or a hugely sweeping historical, I'd say), but contemporary, mystery/suspense, that sort of thing, no, not really, and if you've busted that count, then odds are you have a lot of fat you could be trimming, or you're writing more than one book (iow, you have more than one climax or multiple false endings or six acts or the like).

AND WE'RE BACK! Check out our shiny new site, with some shiny new features and some shiny new celebratory sales, now through August 12! http://www.riptidepublishing.com/

Samantha wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Samantha wrote: "It must be my IP. I just tried a proxy and it loaded on that -sighs- Oh life."

I'm afraid I don't know much about this, or why a specific IP might be blocked (the o..."

I've sent an email to our webmistress, who will check it out :)

Samantha wrote: "It must be my IP. I just tried a proxy and it loaded on that -sighs- Oh life."

I'm afraid I don't know much about this, or why a specific IP might be blocked (the only IPs we ever block, afaik, are those engaged in DoS attacks), but I can forward this on to the tech team if you'd like.

OMG isn't Kanaxa amazing? We're so excited to be working with her.

Edited to add a beautiful new WWII historical romance, Unhinge the Universe, by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov.

We'll be posting some new open calls in a few weeks, and we're having a totally open submission period for one week in October, so you can always try subbing it then :)

Updated 5/24 with several new summer and fall titles!

Updated to add two more hot Market Garden tales to the list--the sequel to If It Flies, and the standalone Capture & Surrender!

Updated to add our entire April and May schedule, plus some bits and pieces from June through September :)

Reggie wrote: "Great News - Riptide is represented in the San Francisco Public Library Ebook Collection- 18 books

http://sfpl.lib.overdrive.com/94DCC4A......"

It's very exciting to see :) Over the last four months or so, we've started distributing with Overdrive, who supplies libraries, and we've been fortunate to make several hundred library sales all over the world. If you frequent your local library and want to see our titles there, by all means put in a request--we love libraries and love to see them lending our ebooks! :D

Updated to add the last collection in the hilarious Josh of the Damned series by Andrea Speed, and an edited re-release of the first novel in the epic fantasy series, Scorpion, by Aleksandr Voinov.

(Oh, if City Mouse isn't live on our website yet, it will be in a day or two. Hang tight--we're just waiting for cover art!)

Updated to include our entire February and March lineup, plus a couple from April/May :)

♆ BookAddict wrote: "Rachel wrote: "♆ BookAddict wrote: "* Booksessed * Bec wrote: "Tried but as I don't have a blog they said no :( no worries though"

What? They said no because you don't have a blog? I think there..."

Our experience is that NetGalley lets in all comers, whether they have platforms or not. As a publisher, I wish it weren't that way, because it makes vetting requests a lot more work for us, but I can certainly understand why they do it; it's a good business decision for them to be able to claim the largest possible number of registered users.

Updated to add Quid Pro Quo by Aleks Voinov and L.A. Witt--10,000 words of pure power-exchange rentboy smut :D Totally smoking hot, AND 33% off at the Riptide site until December 31!

♆ BookAddict wrote: "* Booksessed * Bec wrote: "Tried but as I don't have a blog they said no :( no worries though"

What? They said no because you don't have a blog? I think there are those with just Goodreads accou..."

Not generally, no. We approve hardly any books for folks whose only platform is Goodreads/Amazon/Library Thing, and even then we'll generally only make such approvals if the reviewer is extremely active in communities on those sites. Otherwise, that reviewer won't be reaching an audience we're not reaching ourselves, in which case we can't justify giving them one of the limited number of free copies the marketing department is allowed to distribute. That means we really can only give free books to folks with fresh platforms.