FAQ
These are a few questions you will likely have or should know about our press.
Q: What kind of material would you like to see come across your desk?A: I love reading Annie Dillard, Ursula LeGuin, China Mieville, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Anne McAffrey. C. S. Lewis, Patrick Rothfuss, Henry van Dyke. Robert Louis Stevenson, Dorothy Sayers, and many more. I also enjoy traditional and experimental poetry along the lines of Emily Dickinson, Luci Shaw, Sylvia Plath. I'm expanding into other areas of personal reading and preference, and will keep you apprised of favorites. I unashamedly admit that I love the fiction of Lucy Maud Montgomery and the fantasy of George McDonald's "Lost Princess" and "The Golden Key". For junior books, one can't beat The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, & Ruth Fielding. Of course, these are but a few. I love literary but not mazes; poetry but not cryptograms; fiction but not dime store novels. If you are at all in doubt about a genre or potential piece for submission ("Will it fit?"), please ask.__________________________________________________________________________________________A: Check out this
article by publisher Michael Hyatt.
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A: Who knows? I suppose there's a good chance it will happen, and in the not-too-distant future. See the Michael Hyatt
article on Print-on-Demand. And another one
here.
A: All our books will be available in either / or both softcover and ebook format. For appropriate books, we'll also make them available in hardcover.
A: Publishers are cutting back on acquisitions, fewer do much marketing at all, and author royalties are of necessity small compared to what I offer (consider a large publisher's high overhead). I feel I can take on one or two new authors a year, give them a higher percentage of royalties than they're likely to get elsewhere, and still help them with at least minimal marketing. I want to help great writers get their books out there.
A: Familiarize yourself thoroughly with this site, our guidelines, our publishing model. If you still have questions after that, please contact us. Get your equery to us when we have open submissions, which will vary from year to year.
A: Figure on at least a year, sometimes longer.