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Sleepytown Press is having a contest to find an "unpublished"
NEW VOICE
in Fiction and Children's Picture Books.
This contest is in honor of our 2nd Anniversary. We are going to select “two” winners, one each in the category of Fiction and Children’s Picture Book. Fiction Novels may be any genre and Adult or YA.
We will start accepting Fiction and Children’s Picture Book entries on January 1, 2012. (Ending February 14th, 2012.)
The Contest will award two grand prizes: one for Fiction and one for Children’s Picture Books. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Sleepytown Press at no cost to the winners.
This contest is open to authors who have not been published in book form.
*Click on NEW VOICE "Contest" at the left for more information.
Open submissions for manuscripts will begin on January 1, 2012 and run through February 14, 2012. If you're an unpublished author, this is for you. You could be that “New Voice.”
Email your submission to sleepytownpress@yahoo.com (Include the information listed on the "NEW VOICE" page at the left.)
The Picture Book Winner will be published in April.
The Fiction Winner will be published in June.
Go to our NEW VOICE page to find out how to make a submission to the contest.
January will be a month of celebration at
Sleepytown Press.
Church Plays for Children, Youth Groups, and Adults
Just Published by Sleepytown Press
Author Bobbie Gulley
$15.00
This book features a collection of plays written by Bobbie.
Available now for purchase online through Amazon.com and other online stores.
Author Bobbie Gulley
$15.00
This book features a collection of plays written by Bobbie.
Available now for purchase online through Amazon.com and other online stores.
We invite you to submit your manuscript to us!
Send me an email to sleepytownpress@yahoo.com and include the following:
1. Your project name and a short synopsis of the story or novel.
2. Picture Book: Include the full manuscript with spacing to indicate page divisions.
3. Novel: Send the first "three" chapters in a Word attachment.
4. Include a short paragraph letting me know what your "vision" is for this project.
5. If you have a web site, please include the URL so that I may give your site a visit.
6. If you have illustrations for a picture book, please send some of them as JPG for viewing.
7. Include any information that you would like to share about your project.
1. Your project name and a short synopsis of the story or novel.
2. Picture Book: Include the full manuscript with spacing to indicate page divisions.
3. Novel: Send the first "three" chapters in a Word attachment.
4. Include a short paragraph letting me know what your "vision" is for this project.
5. If you have a web site, please include the URL so that I may give your site a visit.
6. If you have illustrations for a picture book, please send some of them as JPG for viewing.
7. Include any information that you would like to share about your project.
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally -- and often far more -- worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
- C S Lewis
- C S Lewis
Sleepytown Press NOW offers eBook publishing on Amazon for Kindle for all of our authors.
*Your B&W book will be formated with a cover, Table of Contents, and text for sale and download on Amazon in their Kindle Store. There is no "extra" cost to turn your published SP Book into an eBook.
Color Books do not show on a Kindle in color. We are working on other readers for color books.
(Amazon has just announced a new Kindle Fire. It is color. This might make color books available for Kindle. We are waiting to see where this leads.)
Currently in the process of being created...
ATTENTION: Most of our books may also be purchased as a PDF file for reading on your computer. This includes Children's Books. A License to use the file on one computer is $3.99 per book. (No sharing, please.)
TEACHERS: You may purchase a license to use a Children's Book on your computer, at school, so that you may show the book to the class through your projector that is attached to your computer. (Most classes have projectors and smart boards in the room. You can show the PDF on the screen and use it as a "story time" or a "teaching tool.") Each Children's Book as a PDF file may be used on one computer, in your classroom only for $3.99.
Power Point of our Children's Books: Sleepytown Press is currently working on a new project for teachers. The project will include Vocabulary, a Story, and Questions and Activities to follow the use of the Children's Book.
Are You Ready to Publish Your Book?
Children's Books, Adult Novels, YA Novels, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Self-Help, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and Instructional Texts are all Welcome.
Email Submissions to sleepytownpress@yahoo.com
Email Submissions to sleepytownpress@yahoo.com
When you tire of receiving rejections from agents and publishers, think again about the small publishing house. Sleepytown Press might be the publisher that is right for you.
Sleepytown Press is a POD publisher with a lot of attractive extras. What does POD mean? "Print-on-Demand" involves digital files which are pulled and printed on demand at any time and on any day. An author may order 1 book or 1,000 books. (You are never required to buy a certain amount of books.) They are printed "on demand." We, like a lot of publishers, use Lightning Source as our printer. (When an author orders books for book signings and gifts, they are shipped directly from the printer to the author's door via UPS.)
Lightning Source is Ingram. Ingram handles the sales to online book sellers as well as brick & morter stores.
Some people have called us an equity publisher because we do not publish everything that is sent to us. This is an honor. It means that we are a step above the others. Why would we choose to not publish a certian book? Some are not workable and some are not items that we feel fit the "vision" of what Sleepytown Press represents.
We don’t charge for services a la carte, but rather understand the importance of the process of publishing and make sure each step is done right. Thus, we charge one project price that includes everything the author needs in order to provide a quality published book.
Sleepytown Press does not collect a percentage of the profits from the publication, and send you what some like to call "royalties." When you choose to go with Sleepytown Press, we stay with you. We are your publisher. We do not take any part of the money that you make for the sale of your book. When you sell books on Amazon and other online sources, you get the full amount that your book earns off those sales. (Exception: Kindle eBooks. Amazon gets 30% automatically. SP get 20% for administration and upkeep of the files and payments. The author gets 50% of Kindle Downloads.)
(Special Note: Not long ago, it was said that Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble sell more books online than the brick & morter store. Could selling online bring you more than selling in a book store? It depends on whether the book store promotes your book or not.) Do book stores promote every author. No. They promote the "Big Name" authors that everyone knows. So, what happens to authors who are virtually unknown? They promote their own books. (In many stores, a book gets maybe six weeks or so to show that it will make money for the store. If it does not sell, the book is often removed from the shelf.)
You can make money off your book. You might not make enough to retire, but it is fun knowing that part of the retail price comes back to you. (When you order books and sell them at book signings or workshops, you keep everything that you make from those sales.)
We can not promise that any book will make you a million, but we can guarantee that we will do our best to provide you with a professional product that any author would be proud of calling their own.
We can not guarantee that a book store will choose to stock your book. In fact, there is a very informative article on the "Marketing" page titled "Do You Really Want to Sell Your Book in Bookstores?"
Sleepytown Press is currently working with two book stores to include our books in their stores.
There are no confusing levels, packets, or packages. Every author gets the same benefits when publishing with Sleepytown Press. Once you decide to go with Sleepytown Press, all of the extras come along with your project. There are no hidden charges that creep up to cause you a headache later. The publishing fee is $500 for any type of book. (Coupon Code: z825 "When submitting a manuscript, include the above "code" in the subject line and you will receive $100 off the publishing fee of $500.)
We are connected with Ingram, their books are listed on Amazom.com, including Baker & Taylor and Partners, so your books are available to chain booksellers, independent booksellers, online booksellers, and libraries. While we will never promise a bookseller will decide to carry your book, we assure you that your books are available to them if they choose to order or carry them in their stores.
If you choose to go with Sleepytown Press, you get the following:
1. Paperback Book (Hardcover adds $6 to the cost of the book.)
2. A fully designed and author approved Cover
3. ISBN and BARCODE for your book
4. Author Copies at a GREAT affordable Price
5. Bookmarks designed for your book (By request)
6. Marketing Ideas PDF
7. Your Book listed with Bowker and Books in Print
8. Web Page on Sleepytown Press Site
9. Ingram Distribution
10. You keep YOUR rights to your book
11. You set the retail price
12. You set the discount that you allow (20% - 55%)
13. You MAY sell your own book on your web site
14. A formatted and author approved text (You say when the book is ready to send to the printer.
15. Your book will be displayed or have an opportunity to be displayed, when SP goes to Book Fairs
16. You say "when" the text and cover is ready for publishing
17. Special Note: Your book will be available online (Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, Books-A-million.com, AbeBooks.com, alibris, Powell's Books, and others. Your book may also be ordered through any bookstore by title, author, or ISBN#.)
18. Special Note: Press Release "NEW"
19. Most books will be formated for sale or download at Amazon.com for Kindle. Color Books do not work well on Kindle. We are exploring other avenues.
20. You will be featured in one of the Sleepytown Press Newsletters that are sent out via the net.
21. You may choose to allow Sleepytown Press to sell your book as a PDF for reading on any computer.
22. Children's Book Authors may choose to allow SP to create a Power Point of your book to offer to School Teachers.
Taken from the New York Times about publishing outside of traditional publishing:
Last year, according to the Bowker bibliographic company, 764,448 titles were produced by self-publishers and so-called microniche publishers. (A microniche, I imagine, is a shade bigger than a self.) This is up an astonishing 181 percent from the previous year. Compare this enormous figure with the number of so-called traditional titles — books with the imprimatur of places like Random House — published that same year: a mere 288,355 (down from 289,729 the year before). Book publishing is simply becoming self-publishing.
The article goes on to say that People , just like you, have decided to take their books into their own hands and do something about it. Today, books published outside the traditional house are getting more respect as being REAL BOOKS, too. Times are changing! I knew that it would.
The article goes on to say that People , just like you, have decided to take their books into their own hands and do something about it. Today, books published outside the traditional house are getting more respect as being REAL BOOKS, too. Times are changing! I knew that it would.
Visit your local Book Store and ask for our books, or Visit these places online to order our books:
