[Genealib] Publishers for genealogy material

[Craig R. Scott]

"Publish" can mean many things.

Is your patron looking for someone to pay for the printing of their book and pay them a royalty? 

    If that is the case then you need to find a traditional genealogical publisher that will accept the manuscript. A lot will depend on the quality of the content of the letters.

Is your patron willing to pay for the printing of their book and therefore "self-publish?" 

Would they be willing to purchase a guaranteed quantity of the title if a publishing house published it for them?

Can your patron edit the material or will they need help?

These and many more are the questions that need to be asked before a publishing company can be appropriately selected by an author. 

I will say that if you don't know what you are doing, need lots of help getting it done, and expect a lot of hand holding during the process than my experience is that Gateway Press is your best bet, and if you came to me that is where I would send you. 

If you don't need a lot of hand holding and can provide camera ready copy, but need someone to create the cover for you, there is this other company that can help you.

Each publishing firm brings its own expertise to the process and the issue is finding out what the best fit will be. Each publisher is different and brings a different set of expectations to the process.

The most important thing that an author can do is ask questions to see if there is a good fit.

C.

Craig R. Scott, CG
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sonia Schoenfield 
  To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 3:11 PM
  Subject: [Genealib] Publishers for genealogy material


  Hi-

   

  I have a genealogy patron who is looking to publish a book but is not sure how to go about accomplishing this. He has a wonderful collection of letters that he would like to have put into a book. These letters were sent to his grandmother from her siblings and other relatives, and they really cover a slice of American life from a certain time period. One person fought in the Civil War, another had an encounter with John Wilkes Booth before Lincoln's assassination, still another wrote from the fields of the gold rush. That's just to give you an idea of what he has and to illustrate that it's not a genealogy or family history that he wants to publish, but something of interest to his relatives and possibly historians as well. 

  Any ideas about who I should send him to? 

  Thanks for your input!

   

  Sonia Schoenfield

  Cook Memorial Public Library District

  Libertyville, Illinois

   



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