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This may be of interest to those submitting to various publishers, especially epubs...
There is a new epublisher now accepting submission! Quartet Press was founded by Kassia Krozser of Booksquare.com; Kirk Biglione of Medialoper.com; book marketer Kat Meyer; and a silent partner. Quartet was founded on shared goal of the principles to create a high-quality, community-centric, and reader- and author-friendly digital publishing house.
They are now accepting manuscript submissions for their Fall 2009 launch, which will kick off the house's romance imprint, Quench!.
So for all those fledging romance authors, write that query letter and start submitting!
Speaking of digital publishing, Publishers Weekly posted an interesting article this week about the new E-book Wave. Such epublishers you may reckognized that were mentioned in the were, Ravenous Romance, Ellora's Cave, Mudanian Press LLC, and Samhain Publishing.
Some facts:
-Ellora’s Cave has 31 employees and an annual list of about 300 digital and 200 print titles a year.
-Samhain focuses on romance, and its authors receive no advance but are paid royalties that range from 30% to 40% for e-books and 8% on print books. Samhain’s staff includes 12 editors, and Brashear estimates that the company receives roughly 30 to 50 submissions a month.
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-Ravenous Romance has about 250 authors.
-Mundania Press LLC houses a number of imprints that publish romance, sci-fi, mystery and YA, among other genres, and has some 600 authors on its list, many of whom, said president and publisher Daniel J. Reitz, were onetime print bestsellers.
6 comments:
Ravenous Romance has 250 authors on its list? Hmmm
I can't believe it about RR either. And from what I hear about the publisher, it hasn't been all good. An agent having a piece of a publisher? So not good.
Katie, sweetheart? Don't hate me but in the bit about Quartet Press? You mean principals (as in, the people who are founding the company) not principles (as in, beliefs)
"Samhain focuses on romance, and its authors receive no advance but are paid royalties"
Samhain offers a small advance ($100) if an author choses to take it. Some do, some don't.
AL: the part is right from their press release: "Quartet was founded on shared goal of the principles to create a high-quality, community-centric, and reader- and author-friendly digital publishing house" Perhaps they don't mean their principals?
Vanessa: Good to know! Thanks.
To the Samhain advance thing - I am pretty sure I read something on Espan from Angela James, that they do not do that any more?
I think it was a token to meet previous RWA guidelines, but keep in mind my only info is from the blogs. LOL
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