Here’s something that might be of interest to some of my fellow writing buddies (closet or otherwise!). I admit I don’t know much about self publishing, so maybe there are other people doing this too.Self publishing has been a growing phenomenon I know, but I’ve run across this, and it looks like a great resouce if you’re thinking along those lines. A one stop shop, soup to nuts approach for solving the hurdles involved. Its called Parke Press, and is owned and operated by an experiended “Vibrant” woman, hwo definitely knows her stuff. You can check it out at www.parkepress.com. Here’s an excerpt from her promo material:
Can’t find a publisher? You don’t have to settle for a poorly-designed, badly-packaged,amateurish looking, narrowly-marketed, super-expensive product that requires its own room for storage, and keeps you shlepping boxes of books in your car for the next ten years.
Parke Press is a new small-book publisher, owned by a book designer, that offers consultation and a classic custom design for your book, produces a digital file for the printer, and ultimately delivers you an affordable short run of your finished volume. For an added annual cost to you, your book is made available — to booksellers and readers alike —through the very same book distribution networks as major publishers use. Year after year, you will receive royalties on each book sold, whether it is one book or one thousand.
What could be better than that? Professional design, professional production, professional distribution of your book… who needs Knopf, Random House or Penguin? Parke Press can provide a complete production price list for
all sizes of softback and hardback books. Extensive design and editing services are priced separately.
Can’t find a publisher? You don’t have to settle for a poorly-designed, badly-packaged,amateurish looking, narrowly-marketed, super-expensive product that requires its own room for storage, and keeps you shlepping boxes of books in your car for the next ten years.
Parke Press is a new small-book publisher, owned by a book designer, that offers consultation and a classic custom design for your book, produces a digital file for the printer, and ultimately delivers you an affordable short run of your finished volume. For an added annual cost to you, your book is made available — to booksellers and readers alike —through the very same book distribution networks as major publishers use. Year after year, you will receive royalties on each book sold, whether it is one book or one thousand.
What could be better than that ?
Professional design, professional production, professional distribution of your book… who needs Knopf, Random House or Penguin? Parke Press can provide a complete production price list for all sizes of softback and hardback books. Extensive design and editing services are priced separately.
thank you so much Lisa, that helps a lot. I know he tried to blame me for so much stuff, but like I told all of his family and mine none of that added up to a divorce. I do realize it's his needs, it just hurts so bad to think how many years he's
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Extremely cool! The more I look the more I find out about how much the publishing world has been democratized… indie publishing (like indie films, only with books!) is the way to go…
All the writers I know says having a publisher is not the great “Whoop!” it used to be… you have to do all your own promos and rarely if ever see any $$ unless you are Oprah or your book is chosen for Oprah’s show. Self-pub with an experienced guide would actually give you a much better chance of financial return!
Cheers!
M
OK this site doesn’t come up – parkerpress.com does though. Is it not .com?
Hi LilTigg. It’s parkepress, you had too many “r”s
MM
This post has too many details that point to self-interest on your part. For the sake of transparency–and trust–would you please disclose how you are related to this venture?
Thanks.
Hi Talia! I’m Parke Press, and I’m Sarah’s first cousin. She and I have been good friends for our whole lives. Parke Press is one of those reinventions that women of a certain age have discovered we need to excel at! Not to mention, I am a Scorpio, one of those masters of reinvention. But Parke Press, aside from being a way to funnel authors to a good designer and lover of book arts, is a service for writers to get themselves out there. It’s a way to tell the stories that are the real history of US… The first book Parke Press did was a diary from the Civil War, by a young woman who lost her first love, and by the way told about daily life in Virginia during those times. Not really a get-rich-quick concept, Parke Press is more meant to be a service for other people to TELL THEIR STORIES! Sorry it came across as an infomercial. Sarah’s the real thing, just giving me a pat on the back…
Talia – I can see how this struck you as somehow self serving, and I do apologise. My cousin Marshall Rouse, a fabulous human being, and very talented graphic designer, told me about her new business concept. In an effort to asses and recommend objectively, I didn’t mention we are related. I didn’t seem important. But, in hindsight, I think it would have been just as effective, and more “transparent”, as you say, to have revealed how I came to know about Parke Press. In fact I sent direct e-mails to a couple of other writer friends and did just that. So yes – everyone here is a “friend” too, so I should have presented it the same way! I certainly wouldn’t want to betray your trust in my honesty or my sincerity. .
Maybe this would be a good place to begin a chat about what makes us who we are: our work? Our family? Our inner selves? When does our work become who we are? and vice versa?
I am lucky enough to be one of those people whose identity is very VERY connected to my work, whether the work is about money or not! Really lucky! Very difficult to extract the person from the vocation… Designers and artists often come to “get” this at a young age, they realize they can run but not hide from the very real organic need to build, create, write, assemble, etc. and that the only way to really have time to do it properly is to take a sort of vow of poverty… not to make a virtue of necessity, but anyhow…. I keep seeing this with folks of all ages and all “stripes” whose very real material requirements do not square with their real vocation…
Anybody out there with me on this?
M – I think you should re-post this queston/converstation starter in the “start a conversation” box on the homepage. Very interesting topic.