Hi, Peter. Thanks for sharing with us today. I'm way behind reading my email and haven't caught up. So I don't know if this question was asked. Is a writer's...
Thanks for answering. Who keeps track of the sales of the book? How is the royalties calculated? How do we know how many of our books were sold? Does the...
Reagan, Why should I as an author choose print on demand publisher instead of doing it the traditional way and submit my book directly to a print publisher? ...
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I am the owner of Black Rose Writing, a publishing house in Texas. I will be happy to answer any questions authors may have and try and help their chances of...
Mr. Rothe, We're glad you're here. I have always been interested in looking into POD. Can you tell us about your submissions guidelines? My computer won't let...
Good morning Reagan, On your site you say Black Rose Writing promises to dedicate everything it can to help the authors put their books on the shelves. We will...
Reagan, I have an out-of-print book from the '80's --a romance novel-- and I would like to print it back into circulation. Can Black Rose Writing help me with...
Hello Reagan, this is Darrel, an author with a lot of books written but none publsihed--yet. What are the positive and negative differences between self...
Reagan, If I just want to produce a few dozen copies of a family recipe book that is more for private distribution, can I use your POD service? How much does...
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C.- I wouldn't advise against submitting to a larger budgeted, larger publicized publishing house first. If Randomhouse wants to publish your book, by all...
I have spoken to several editors and published authors about the topic of self-publishing. All feel you should use it only when you are writing for a niche...
Hart, A.- Our submission guidelines page is a .pdf that you might need to allow pop-ups, etc. to view. Anyways, we are not strictly non-fiction. In fact, we...
Darrel- There are some major differences... Major bookstores and vendors tend to look down upon self-published authors. Having a publishing house back up your...
Carolyn- Types of things? We send out press releases to our contacts (which include media outlets, libraries, journals, etc...). Some of them we do have...
Caroyln- We have yet published a second printing or an out-of-print book, but we would consider the option. We wouldn't tell you no outright, but it would have...
Darrel- We own those rights and can choose, based on the book's demand/success, to pursue that option as it increases our cost. We haven't ran into any issues...
C.- The book published by us is in print as long as the contract is good. We cater our contracts to our authors, we have deals ranging from 3-5 years normally....
C.- (1) The distributor/s keep track of sales as ordered from bookstores, vendors, online sites, etc... The publisher keeps track of sales coming directly from...
C.- We charge our authors zero dollars. We have never charged and will never charge anyone that publishes with us. We are traditional in that sense in every...
Brenda- That sounds right on. Try, try, try to find a traditional publishing fit that will help you with leads and support your work. If that fails, it's...
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