Riptide Publishing’s Comments (group member since Aug 19, 2011)

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To the best of my understanding, this is (in more or less words) the answer going out to everyone who asks, but I'll make sure of it from here forward.

Hi Denise,

There were indeed plans to produce audio books in house. But a number of factors made that very difficult, and left us concerned we wouldn't be able to produce a quality product at an affordable price. We spoke with several experts and ultimately made the decision to license the rights to professional audio publishers who do nothing BUT produce audiobooks. It was the best way to ensure we'd end up with an audiobook readers would enjoy and could afford.

But licensing rights means giving up control of the timeline to the publisher who buys the license. It also means finding the right publisher to buy the license. It's a complex world about which we know little, so we signed on with a top-notch subrights agent to help us navigate it. At this point, it's a waiting game for us, and I promise that as soon as we know something, we'll share it with everyone who's waiting.

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Pardon our appearance!

We're revamping www.riptidepublishing.com to bring you new features and a better browsing experience on all devices and platforms.

To facilitate the change, our site will be unavailable from August 1, 2013 through August 4th, 2013. We will be back up & running better than ever on August 5th.

What you can expect from our new site? Well, besides an awesome new look, we've added the following features:

Support for all devices and platforms. You'll be able to access and use our site with ease across your mobile, tablet, and desktop systems.
A super-search engine that lets you identify & search for exactly what you want in a title.
Ebook gifting—you can now purchase titles for friends!
Bestseller lists that update daily—keep track of the hottest Riptide titles in real-time.
A new Riptide featured author every month with exclusive info and special savings.


Wondering about your user library, wishlist, and bonus bucks?

All of your account information will be there when our site is back up. We're only changing the way our website looks, not the data we've stored, so everything under your account will be saved for the new site and waiting for you.

We look forward to showing off our new look! When our new site launches, we'll be celebrating with lower prices on select backlist titles, brand new ebook and paperback combos, and special series bundles available for the first time ever. Be sure to follow us on twitter, facebook, and via our newsletter to stay updated on all of these hot new deals!

In the meantime, you can purchase Riptide titles via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance, and other fine retailers.

Updated to add Love, Hypothetically, a spinoff of Frat Boy and Toppy that tells Paul's story. This hilarious novella from Anne Tenino will be released August 27, and details can be found on the Riptide site!

This is an exciting week! We unveiled Skybound, haunting new WWII fiction from Aleksandr Voinov due for release on August 20! Do you LOVE the cover?! Check out the page for Skybound here and remember that pre-ordering titles means you get them 2 days in advance and are entered in the drawing to win free books for a year!

Wishing a Happy Early Release day to Tal Valante! Her action-packed fantasy, All My Crimes, is now available for download on the Riptide Publishing site! All orders placed before midnight Sunday night still count as a pre-order and earn you an entry into our Free Books for a Year contest!

Happy Early Release day to Elyan Smith! His trans* novella, Portside , is now available for download on the Riptide Publishing site! Don't forget that orders placed before midnight Sunday night still count as a pre-order and earn you an entry into our Free Books for a Year contest!

Updated to include Cat Grant's upcoming novella, Doubtless. Doubtless is a spin-off of Priceless, and gives Connor's best friend Steve his turn to shine.

Adara wrote: "Worked like a charm. And there was even a new book in the Coming Soon list for me to test it on. How thoughtful! =)"

We do our best! :D

Cat wrote: "Can I say that on the cover for Power Play Awakeing Johnathon looks like Jared Leto From 30 Seconds to Mars.. look at the Eyes so intense"

LOL you're not the first person to mention he looks like Jared Leto. Don't hate me, but I had to look JL up.

Kassandra wrote: "OMG the excerpt makes me want to buy Blacker than Black soo bad.......
I am one of those sad bookaholics that gives myself a budget per month to spend and I have already gone over mine this month, ..."

You'll be able to sneak some more peeks on the blog tour, where she'll be posting another (I think?) seven excerpts, each around five pages long, so hopefully that'll hold you til next month :)

Enny wrote: "I bought SUBlime but when I downloaded the book, I realized that it's exactly the same book that I bought from Smashwords last year. I don't think it's fair that there is nothing in the blurb or on..."

It's the same title, with the same cover, linked in on Goodreads with the other earlier editions and all listed as the same book. We even listed out the story titles inside the book so there would be no confusion, and we also posted on the title page of our website AND on the book's Goodreads page that it's a re-release of the same title that was released in 2010. I'm not sure what else we could do to make it clearer, but I'm certainly open to suggestions. And if you'd like to give away your duplicate copy, we certainly wouldn't mind.

Hello folks. Just a quick note to let you know that the release dates for Divinity and A Chip In His Shoulder have been switched, so while it's true you have to wait one more week for the awesomeness that is Divinity, you do at least get the awesomeness that is Chip a week early in exchange :) Half the northeast has been without power since (*sigh*) "Snowtober" (seriously, Weather Channel, could you be any LESS clever if you tried?) and has caused some issues with putting the finishing touches on Divinity. On the plus side, now poor Lori doesn't have two books coming out a day apart.

Woohoo, we are now officially open for business, and our books are available for purchase at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks, Rainbow Ebooks, 1 Place for Romance, Xinxii, and right here on Goodreads (epub only at GR). They're also still available on our website, of course, and we hope you'll continue shopping there to take advantage of our bonus bucks, one of the best warning/tagging systems available, and (for titles still not yet released) our Free Books for a Year Pre-order Contest.

We thank you all for your excitement and encouragement and hope you have a fabulous time with your shiny new downloads!

ElaineY wrote: "I just emailed for the file as it's not on my bookshelf yet."

This might be a browser cache issue; your browser may be seeing what it remembers being there rather than what is there now. Hitting refresh won't fix that; you have to clear your cache. If you try accessing the bookshelf on a different browser, I suspect the book will show up, as it's working now for everyone else afaik. If it doesn't still show up, though, definitely let us know.

Laura wrote: "Riptide Publishing wrote: "Webmistress is making progress on the Once a Marine/Master Class issue. If you can see and download those files now, please raise your hand :)"

Downloaded both of those ..."

Fabulous, thanks! I think we can safely say the bug has been squashed :D

Sarah wrote: "Just downloaded all 8 titles and had no problems at all. Got the format I wanted, the metadata was perfect on all, I love that you put blurbs in the front so I know what I'm reading, and they look ..."

Aw, fabulous, so glad to hear it! We put the blurbs up front out of personal experience; I've downloaded a ton of kindle samples that I don't get to for months sometimes, and by the time I do, I've completely forgotten what the book was about and why it interested me. This way the blurb will be in the sample :)

ElaineY wrote: "I would have voted but when I went over to Riptide yesterday, Once A Marine wasn't on my bookshelf but that one with the ghastly tentacle over was, instead. I checked again in the evening and it st..."

We did have a technical glitch with the OAM file, but it should be fixed now. If it's still not showing up in your bookshelf, please drop us an email at info@riptidepublishing.com with your order number and we'll send it right over to you.

Lisa wrote: "I voted again...."

Thanks to you and everyone who does! :)