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The Basics
Port Yonder Press is first and foremost a quality small press seeking top notch manuscripts. We categorize by using two general market imprints and two religious imprints, with an exclusive Iowa imprint coming soon!
Please know that we're edgy, artsy, and a bit unconventional.
For our mainstream imprints, we seek hard-hitting, realistic stories with a rating of "family-friendly-mature."
For "Christian" manuscripts, we don't want the indefinable and over-used "edgy" pieces; instead, we want what we call "worldview fiction" - non-preachy, family-friendly, realistic. Manuscripts should not include Bible verses, "salvation" scenes, or other overt Christian content.
Our Philosophy
We will strive to produce great reading material.
We are committed to providing well-written, quality, affordable books.
We will strive to provide an accurate rating for each book.
We
believe books can be both enjoyable and meaningful without the
intrusions of excessive foul language, graphic immoral content, or extreme
gratuitous violence.
We produce books for middle readers, teens, and adults. Adult books are what we call family-friendly-mature. Some themes will be better handled by adults, as is true with life in general.
Our Guidelines
These have been revised. See our main page for specifics. You
can find in-depth information on how to write a winning book proposal
in our book by Terry Burns: A Writer's Survival Guide to Getting Published, available here.Our Specifics
If
we love your book, we'll offer you both a very small monetary advance
(pittance, really) and a contract outlining royalties (higher than
most). Then we jointly market the finished product, with most of
the marketing being up to the author, per most publishers today. Of course,
those are the short-strokes; the real McCoy is a little bit more
in-depth.
Our Staff
Chila Woychik, Publisher & Managing Editor
Lisa Cantrell, Consulting Editor Glynda Francis, Consulting Editor
Suzanne Hartmann, Consulting Editor Andra Legge, Slushpile Editor
Lisa Lickel, Copyeditor
Anna O'Brien, In-house Illustrator, Cover & Book Designer
Kevin Spencer, Slushpile Editor
LoriAnn Weldon, Copyeditor (Student Intern)
Linda Yezak, Consulting Editor
See our full staff page here.
To
contact our staff, set up an author or editor/publisher interview, or
inquire about a book signing, please email us at:
Contact@PortYonderPress.com
From Chila: My usual phone hours are Fridays
from 1 to 4 p.m., central standard time. If I'm not available when you
first call, please try again later. You're free to leave a message,
and I'll try to get back to you the same day. My number
is 319-436-3015. (Since this is my home number, I would appreciate
receiving calls only during the hours listed above.)
Phone tips:
My personal clients, as well as potentially new clients, are always free to call me during these hours, if you need to discuss a project or have questions.
No manuscript "pitches" or phone queries, please.
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Our Publishing Model
Publishers now have the option of using the older offset method of printing or the new, faster, digital printing method. We will almost always use digital printing for our books.
In this way, we, as a small press, don't have the large monetary outlay involved in printing hundreds or thousands of books at one time, then warehousing those books hoping they will sell.
Because we don't warehouse books, the digital printing process is often called Print-On-Demand, or "print-as-needed". (Also called Books On Demand.)
We are not a "vanity" or "subsidy" publishing company. The simple difference is this: we use POD "printers", but are not a POD "publisher". The difference, though simple, is huge.
The fact is, you cannot pay us enough to produce your book. We will only publish a book that meets our stringent criteria, and one we absolutely love and believe in for the long haul.
Port Yonder Press is a regular publishing company taking advantage of the modern conveniences available to publishers today. We believe this will be the near-future of how publishing is done and are excited to be part of this growing trend.
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An additional note: Print on Demand (or, Books-Without-Remainder) is a process borne out of necessity due to economically slow times. It has now been embraced by several large publishers -- and more, I believe, in the days to come. As publishers move away from amassing warehouses of books to the modern conveniences of e-books, Espresso Book Machines, and digital printing on demand ("on demand" simply meaning "as needed"), we'll be there in the forefront as a small, indie publisher.Foreword Magazine has recently addressed this growing trend in their latest issue. You can read it here.
Our Imprints
Port Yonder / SeaBeast - general market books
BoomTown Books - the best Iowa has to offer (NEW, 2012)
SharksFinn / SkySail - religious / Christian books
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