What you Might Not Know About Working with Small Presses
Both of my series are with small presses: Oak Tree Press and Mundania. I've been with many others before these two. I was fortunate to meet both of these publishers at writing conferences. I met Dan Rietz, Mundania's publisher at Epicon and Billie Johnson, who owns Oak Tree, at Public Safety Writers Association's conference. At these first meetings I had other publishers. As fate would have it, both of my publishers quit the business later on. It wasn't too hard to figure out where I should go next. Because I had a track record, successful books behind me, I didn't have to go through the whole querying process. With Mundania, I saw the publisher at yet another conference and he told me to send my next manuscript. I spoke at a conference OTP put on, and signed a contract during that time period. Querying and submitting a manuscript is so much easier nowadays. Most of it is done via the Internet. When you submit a manuscript you want to make sure it is clean a...