Today we announce that Nevermet Press is closed until further notice.
After over three years of running the blog and publishing a few select RPG and fiction products, I simply do not have the time to continue to working on new projects, the blog, or maintaining our existing catalog. It’s been great fun and I have learned a great deal about the gaming industry and “indie” publishing along the way – but sadly I must close Nevermet Press. My professional career and familial responsibilities simply no longer leave enough bandwidth in my daily life to maintain Nevermet Press in a reasonable way. Perhaps in the future time and energy will find me again, but until then I bid you farewell.
Effective immediately all products in the Nevermet Press catalog will no longer be sold to through any distributors. Termination of sales orders have been issued to Amazon, Lulu, Smashwords, DTRPG, etc – so it may take a couple weeks for those orders to be processed. I have a pretty hefty collection of print books still in my “in-house” inventory, so I may sell those on eBay individually – but that remains to be seen. Truth be told – sales have been abysmal across the board for over a year, so there’s not much motivation to even try to sell the print books I do have on hand.
Nevermet Press is also no longer able to actively maintain the RPG Blog Carnival Archive, and I want to encourage another, established member of the RPG Blogging Community to take the RPG Blog Carnival Archive and maintain it themselves.
Our website, nevermetpress.com, will remain online but be slowly edited/trimmed down as I have time to do so. I’ll also still be tweeting occasionally on Twitter – so chat me up over there as well. As far as the site is concerned, I will be removing all advertising, catalog information, and other “peripheral” aspects of the site first. My goal is to leave the blogging content and short stories up for as long as I can, and to keep the domain name for the foreseeable future. This also leaves me the option to kickstart things again in the future if ever I find the time.
I want to thank everyone who has contributed to Nevermet Press over the years. It’s been an amazing journey and I’ve made some real friends and worked with some great people. A huge thank you goes out to our readers and fans who have supported us as well. Without you – nothing would have been possible.
Best regards and best wishes to everyone — Jonathan.
Thanks for great articles, Jonathan.
We move on, we all do.
Good luck on your new endeavors!
I’m very sorry to hear this news, Jonathon. I wish you every success in the future and hope to see you back in the game sometime soon.
Campaign Mastery would happily host the Blog Carnival archive, but I don’t really have time to maintain it, either – heck, I haven’t had time to participate for a while now. I think it deserves better.
But, if it should transpire that you can’t find anyone, let me know, and at the very least we can provide a home for the archive.
You speak of lessons learned along the way. If, after you’ve had a while to recharge your batteries, you would like to take a stab at committing those lessons into permanent form, CM would be honoured to offer you a guest post in order to do so.
In the meantime, once again, the very best of good fortune.
I would also like to say thank you very much for all you’ve done with the RPG Carnival! It’s been really great. I know how it is to not have enough time to do stuff like this, though so I can’t at all blame you for throwing in the towel on it. But I do hope we can find a new home for the Carnival because it’s such a great idea, and quite a lot of fun. And I’d also like to second the thought that any lessons learned would be great to read. Thanks again! It’s been fab!
Jonathan, I wish you the best of luck on all your future endeavors, and thank you for all that you’ve done as a part of our little community.
I also would be more than happy to host and maintain the RPG Bog Carnival.
Jonathan, I wish you the best of luck in all your future endeavors. If you ever find the need to reach out to the RPG community again, give me a jingle at Roleplayers Chronicle and you’re more than welcome to a guest spot.
By the way, whatever happened to Dead Queens of Morvena?
We’re sad to see Nevermet go away. We’ve been big fans from the start. You did good stuff and can be proud of what was accomplished.
This could not have been an easy decision to make, but it sounds like you’re doing what’s right and proper in order to take care of yourself. Everyone can respect that. Hopefully the positives outweigh the negatives and this experience will prove valuable as you go forwards and onward to new challenges and opportunities.
Here’s to a brighter future.
Jonathan, I understand your decision but am sad to see you go! When the muse strikes again (and you have time), I hope you rev up the blog and Nevermet Press once more.
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Sad news indeed and best of luck with your ventures!
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Jonathan, thanks for all you’ve done. You brought some great people together through NMP and I am glad to have met (at least via the internet) them. Best of luck with your future endeavours.
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Thank you, Jonathan. You were my first (fiction publisher. LOL). I wish you well in all that you do.
A shame but thanks for all you’ve done and keep in touch. Would be good to hear what you’re doing in the future.
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