Updated!

Their latest change may impact our royalty-sharing model with maintenance fees and activation fees.

Inkd Pub has reached out to D2D for clarification on how this affects our royalty sharing. All of the books under our distribution meet their threshold, but the payments to authors certainly do not. Their new TOS does little to address our unique situation. https://draft2digital.com/terms-of-service/

While we wait for their reply, we are researching other avenues of royalty-share.

I have not heard directly from D2D, which is not unusual. I will still push to get an email statement from them, and am cautious. Also optimistic. However an author/admin from 20booksto50k held a meeting with them.

Here is the answer from his post:

Please, if your are royalty share only and your account status shows a maintenance fee due any time soon, please keep me in the loop. I’m at a watch and see alert.

https://draft2digital.com/account/status

Here is D2D response. See account status below

We had a hard choice to make. We extended the submission deadline.

The overall submissions were far lower than we normally receive to start with. Perhaps the thin line of the theme made it worse because “supernatural thriller” and “heist” weren’t close, yet people submitted them.

A comment on guidelines: Publishers vary on the level to which they request and invoke their guidelines. Inkd Pub is on the less regimented end, but that means more work on our side. As an example: a fair number of withdrawals occur before the submission period ends, and most of those were marked as “submitted elsewhere”; which is against our “no simultaneous submission” guideline. On occasion, acceptances are rejected by an author because their story was accepted elsewhere (thus the reason for our “no simultaneous submission” guideline). We don’t automatically discard these submissions in the beginning, or keep a list of infringers, but many publishers do.

We apologize to those who have submitted a proper story and been waiting on their response, but we simply don’t have enough stories to fill an anthology.

We’ve selected three stories for nominations to the WSFA Award. – https://wsfasmallpressaward.org/The_History.php

To make this decision we rely on readers’ scores and editor notes, and still the selection was difficult with all the fine stories we’ve published.

Beverle Graves Myers – Tomorrow’s Ghost

N M Cedeño – The Ghostly Lady’s Curse

C.A. Verstraete – Secrets of the Last Mine

Behind the Shadows II is our second horror anthology and will be available first on our Kickstarter! Come join us with digital, audiobook, paperbark, and LE hardcovers!