We as a publisher started out with one main claim: To be an honest, just, professional publisher who doesn't screw their people over. We have our growing pains here  and there, but we continue to uphold those ideals.

We don't solicit other published authors. We don't ask people to break contracts to come to us. We don't even ask for first right of refusal, because it's the author's work, and therefore the author's choice. We take the time to put out a quality product, and be there for our people. That's our main focus.

We perpetuate the Golden Rule: Do onto others as you would like others to do onto you.

Straight up--Ebooks need to present a unified front.  This doesn't mean CLAIM to keep a unified front and then snark and backstab. It means unified. A stand. Marching together. United we stand. PERIOD.

Basic Econ 101 says that Competition is GOOD, not bad. So making your marketing plan based on hooking someone else behind the knees and tripping them up until they suffer and die is not what your focus should be.

Pay attention to what's in your own yard first. Clean up your own act before peeking at others. And for God's sake, stop sneaking and backstabbing. That kind of things nearly always rebounds back to the stabber, and it's just wasting time better spent on other things. And besides, we all left grade school a long time ago. Adults don't play that game.

Let's be professionals, people. Then be can show all those doubting Thomases that small press can kick ass in spades.