I am pretty patient most of the time but this is ridiculous! I am still waiting for last months selections. I am getting ready to quit the club. Anyone else in the same boat?

I don't have a problem when I get the books.  I think I got mine a week ago.  I belong basicaly so I can get Brian Keene's books.  So the others are not books I am going to rush out and get.  It is great that they are usually wishlisted.  Whenever I get them is just a pleasant surprise.

Yikes. I still have not received last months or this months. Oy.

Go to this link: http://www.briankeene.com/?p=4544 on Brian Keene's website and you'll get an answer to your question. Leisure is having major, major problems right now.

This thread is a few months old, but still pertinent .

Yeah, Leisure is probably done :(

I have read in a thread on another site that someone had gotten charged for his monthly book club, and when he called Leisure he was told that they would be sending him two books from another publisher, but that they could not tell him what the books would be.  this was a few weeks ago, and I haven't heard a followup.  Keene's initial post was here:  http://www.briankeene.com/?p=4507

Keene is actually talking about selfpublishing some of his works at this point, but nothing definite has come out yet.

I sign up about 2 months ago and have not heard a thing from them.

Although it might have corrected itself by now, ebooks were not available when they were supposed to be.  Also, my local Borders has stripped all Leisure horror titles from it's shelves.  This could be part of Leisure's plan, but even the newest titles weren't there.  Some chatter has that this is to gether up assets to sell off for bankruptcy proceedings.  Leisure also fired 2 of it's 3 top editors, whish supposedly leaved them with one (not copy editors, but the editors at the top).  This included Don D'Auria, who pretty much pulled the horror line out of the gutter over 10 years ago, and was resposible for all the titles we have enjoyed (and the stinkers too ;) )  .  Also, a week after announcing the were going digital, they fired the head digital development person, which also doesn't bode well.  I really hope leisure pulls through, as I like that they are around, even if I don't always like their stuff, however, if sales of an $8 mass-market paperback were dropping, do they really feel they will sell more at @15 trade paperback pricepoint?  Initial releases said they weren't going to print all the titles, just the best selling ebooks, and that they would be print-on-demand, which is not the same quality as normal printing.

From another message board, a member posts that his Club shipment contained:

Audrey's Door, by Sarah Langan, and The Blood Artists, by Chuck Hogan. Both were published by Harper and marked "Suspense" on the spine

He also stated there was a message included that stated:

"We are currently transitioning the way our books are printed, which means we'll have a short gap before we can once again bring you new Dorchester releases. However, we are still committed to bringing you the best fiction possible at great savings, and therefore we have reached out to other publishers to provide books to keep your reading schedule on track. Please know that we have your best interest at heart and will do all we can to fulfill your needs."

Audrey's Door is months old, and I am not familiar with the other title.

i got those books today. I haven't heard about them. I also got that same note to.

I "was" a member of Leisure's Horror Book Club and finally stopped due to the ineptness of their customer service. Since I am on Brian Keene's forum and blog, I heard straight from his mouth that Dorchester/Leisure are going digital and are doing away with their mass market paperbacks. Brian also said he had to cancel the rest of his signings from October on because he couldn't get his books from them to bring to the signings. They also let go of his Editor, Dan D'Auria.

Brian also said that we should cancel our memberships if we want to support our authors- because they are not being paid.  I have not cancelled mine yet.  I'm not sure why I am holding out.

I have canceled mine, it was just ridiculous the excuses they gave for why you didn't have the books for the month.

So is everything going to be in trade paperback, I hate the format, i guess i will go to B&N this weekend and see what's happening.

I have cancelled my membership. So many different things have been said who knows what is true.  When they got the new head guy they started selling Brian Keene books again- after he already had gotten the rights back to his books.  Too bad.  I enjoyed the club.

I didn't even know about the whole shake-up, I just started reading Brian Keene books and I wanted too signup but I don't know now. I used to have a membership to Gold Eagle where for books such as Deadlands and Outlanders...too bad they don't do horror looks like they are in good shape.

Supposedly they have a new CEO and he stated he was going to change things and right the ship so to speak but Brian Keene stated on his blog that not much has changed as of yet. He also started that Mass Market Paperbacks weren't going away, but they were still entertaining the Digital versions as well.

Scott

That's good to hear because I hate it when they forcefeed you to go digital.

The SFWA announced that they?ve placed Dorchester/Leisure on probation for one year, following proven instances of the company not paying authors and publishing editions of books they did not legally have the rights to.

That's good I hope they realize that this digital trend is just that a trend. magazines still are popular even with the digital format.

If you look into it, it's more expensive to get digital copies of books, the Kindle isn't cheap... so again, is this something else catering to the rich? I'd much rather have the paperback in hand...