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About
Nano Press
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press is a brand new, tiny little publishing house whose mission
is to find and publish those novel gems that the New York
publishing establishment doesn't want to take a chance on. The
first place we're specifically looking is in the enormous pile of
work generated each year by National Novel Writing Month in
November. Check out their web
site if you aren't familiar with them. If you are familiar
with them, go and take another look at it anyway; it's wicked
funny.
Several other things set Nano
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* Our financial goals
are modest. We would rather publish more titles that each generate
moderate sales than forever search that elusive million
dollar bestselling grail. We wouldn't mind having a bestseller,
but our market strategy doesn't depend on it. |
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* Rather than market
to the "reading public", we are targeting our sales to
the "writing public", on the theory that writers of
books tend to be big readers (and buyers) of books. Our specific
initial market is NaNoWriMo participants themselves, whether or
not they crossed the 50,000 word finish line. We're not worried
about the long term because, stereotypes of reclusive writers
aside, most writers tend to have plenty of friends who read but
don't write. We're confident they'll find us once word gets
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* We believe books
are more expensive than they have to be. By keeping expenses down
with our very flat organizational structure and by eliminating the
distribution middlemen, we are able to offer trade paperbacks
(usually priced from $12 to $20) at mass market prices ($6 to $9.)
These are not POD or digital books, nor do we charge authors for
publication in any way, shape, or form. |
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| For more
information, please see our FAQ page.
As of December 2005 we are open
for submissions. We welcome manuscripts, in any genre, of at least
50,000 words. Extra consideration will be given to any novel that
began life as a NaNoWriMo winner. Click here
for our submission guidelines, and here to purchase books (as soon
as we have some in print.) |
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