Denlinger's Publishers, Ltd??
Modean Moon
A friend of mine sent a query to Denlinger's Publishers (Edgewater Fl)
after reading their entry in the Writers Market. She is actively
marketing a novelized biography of Richard I, complete in over 1200
pages, and so stated in her letter.
Her response was a form, "Dear Author" thing inviting her to submit
the complete manuscript and disk for consideration but also putting in
a plug for their electronic publishing. The final paragraph states
that if they find the manuscript of marketable quality, they would be
willing to publish it on the internet. The paragraph also went on to
require(?) that she -- aw heck --
"If this is agreeable, please send the manuscript and disk along with
a statement that says you agree to publishing on the Internet, with
the possibility of a printed book later. We will then send you a
contract."
The reverse of the letter is a set of guidelines for submissions,
stating among other things that the complete mauscript should be
70,000 to 80,000 words, double spaced, 62 characters per line, 27
lines per page.
Okay. Internet publishing is a coming thing. Both my friend's daughter
and I realize this. But both of us read that above paragraph (agree to
publishing.... THEN we will send you) as ambiguous at best,
misleading, possibly, and , being the paranoids we are, pretty
disturbing.
I ran a deja news search this morning and found only inquiry about
this house, setting out a similar reaction, and asking for any
positive information about Denlinger's. So far, at least at the Deja
News search, none has been forthcoming in the month since the
inquiry..
I then went to their web page:
http://www.galaxymall.com/retail/eternity/publish.html
and found a few books (hard copy and electronic) listed, as well as
the author guidelines. But I found no reference to royalty, on line
remuneration, etc.
In addition, during the web search, I did find a few entries for books
with them listed as publisher -- Those I checked were primarilly dog
books, but I admit I didn't go through the entire list.
So, my friend would like to know if any of you have any positive
information about this organization.
Their editorial office is in Edgewater, Fla, and the home office,
according to their letterhead, is in Centerville Va
Thanks
Modean
Yog Sysop
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:01:12 GMT, mm...@sff.net (Modean Moon) wrote:
>A friend of mine sent a query to Denlinger's Publishers (Edgewater Fl)
Aside from links inside galaxymall itself, there are exactly four links to this publisher
from the world at large (based on a link search at Alta Vista). Counting internal links,
there are 29.
Three of the links from outside are lists of publishers, one of them is a
free-classified-ad site.
By contrast there are 2207 links to Tor books, and 200 to my own humble homepage.
So the amount of exposure the book will get on the internet is (how shall we say this?)
low.
--
James D. Macdonald
http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/
Modean Moon
Thanks, Jim.
I took a little detour through the electronic books in print at our
local library this afternoon. I found 140 entries for Denlingers, and
most of the first couple of screens, which is all I scanned, were made
up of dog books -- some of which looked to be pretty interesting, and
some of which were noted "no longer in print/rights sold".
To be gracious, it appears that this is a small publisher attempting
to enlarge its program. It also appears that even if they wanted the
entire 1200 page manuscript, this would not be the best place for this
ms.
Modean
Melisa
>So the amount of exposure the book will get on the internet is (how
>shall we say this?)
>low.
Yog, would you mind setting your line-lengths a little shorter? It'd
be easier to read your posts....
-Melisa Michaels
SFWA Webmaster tired of noble elves?
http://www.sfwa.org/
http://www.sff.net/people/melisa/ ...read COLD IRON!
J Steven York
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:01:12 GMT, mm...@sff.net (Modean Moon) wrote:
>A friend of mine sent a query to Denlinger's Publishers (Edgewater Fl)
>after reading their entry in the Writers Market. She is actively
snip
>"If this is agreeable, please send the manuscript and disk along with
>a statement that says you agree to publishing on the Internet, with
>the possibility of a printed book later. We will then send you a
>contract."
>
My wife has someone in her romance group that had something very
similar from a publisher of a different name. "Lionheart" comes to
mind, but I'd have to check to see if that's correct. They had
previously "bought" one of her books (contract but no check) for print
publication. Now, after endless delays, they want to put it on the
web. They want to put all their "publishable" authors on the web. If
their novel gets 2K sales on the web, then they say they'll go to a
print edition. According to what she was told, previously purchased
authors won't have to get the 2K sales before going to print, but
still no clue as to when the print edition might happen.
It all sounds like a crock to me. Their attempt to start a print
house failed to get necessary finanacing and/or ran into other
problems, and they're using the web in a misguided attempt to bail
and/or generate cash. Ain't going to happen. Unfortunately, this
lady is all stary-eyed about the whole thing. She's going to get
burned, I'm sure of it.
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Modean Moon
I'm sorry to hear that about Lionheart. So many authors were looking
for it to be a viable market in a rapidly shrinking one. I've heard of
a number of folks who have sold to them, and the dates for publication
just keep getting pushed back and back and back. And yeah, you're
right. They're starry eyed about publication, too, and will probably
put up with a lot more than any person ought to have to, to see their
books in print.
Modean
Jerry Bryson
Modean Moon <mm...@sff.net> wrote:
>
> Their editorial office is in Edgewater, Fla, and the home office,
> according to their letterhead, is in Centerville Va
That's horse country, west of Richnond, near Short Pump. Not sure
that's the best place for a publisher to locate, because of the
face-to-face contact required. It's on the edge of commercial
development, though.
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