I have to say that I’m still a bit shocked by the news that Smashwords will disappear. And there are some real concerns among authors (particularly Erotica authors) that we won’t be able to publish our works anywhere from now on.

I haven’t tried Draft2Digital myself, but I know other authors have shared both positive and negative experiences with them.

But, I’ve a ton of experience with getting my works banned or returned with no particular reason or with reasons that only show they never even bothered to read the story. Then, when I repost the same story, it’s suddenly accepted. It seems that you really have to depend on the person checking your story, and their mood.

Still, back to the merger or acquisition as they call it. There are a lot of benefits too to joining forces against Amazon, and they also have some great ideas when it comes to POD (print on demand), improving their bookstore and making it easier to self-publish.

So, all in all, I’m really excited and looking forward to what’s coming next – as long as they don’t reject all my stories for the erotic content, lol. If that happens, I might have to find another site to publish on.