Here is a reader’s counterpoint to the article titled “A Look Inside Publishing with Publish America”.
Once again, this is one point of view, and not the necessarily the opinion of the owners of the Fiction Forum.
PublishAmerica is a traditional, advance and royalty-paying publisher. We follow the model of other traditional publishers, and not the POD, vanity, or subsidy press model of charging the author fees to have their book in print. We maintain this old-fashioned, time-honored belief that a publisher should sell books, and not so-called “services.” We’re not reinventing any wheel here, we’re just selling books, and by concentrating on bookselling only, we have grown very good at it: hundreds of thousands of books per year. This puts us in the top ten percent of the nation’s publishers in terms of volume of books sold.
NCP has been in business since 1996, so explaining how we got from there to here would be a rather long story, and hard to put into just a few sentences. If I had to encapsulate, I suppose it would boil down to marketing/advertising—- to find our authors/books, to build NCP name recognition, to build a customer base. It’s been a tremendous learning experience all the way around.
LionHearted is located in Lake Tahoe, Nevada and was founded in January of 1994 by Mary Ann Heathman, who serves as President and CEO. Kim Heathman, the co-founder, serves as Chief Financial and Operations Officer. We have a wonderful staff of editors, preview readers, independent artists, and computer geeks, who all work as independent contractors. We love the creative empowerment used by many of the leaders in the computer industry-a philosophy of letting people work the hours they want, they days they want, as long as the work gets done! So, if we were about empowering authors to be creative, we felt we also needed to empower our own editorial, artistic and management staff.
Amber Quill Press began in late June, 2002. It was formed by a group of authors, editors and artists who have a combined decades of experience in editing and publishing. We came together in an effort to create something different in the publishing world.
Some books to help the new writer get started. Helping with Copyright, publishing, writing, and everything else you need to know…
A Glossary of Writer’s Terms provided by The Fiction Forum