I wanted to share this information with writers about Apprentice House, a student run small press at Loyola University in Maryland.
I've taken all the following information directly from their website to share with my blog writer friends. Contact them for more information.
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So What is Apprentice House?
Apprentice
House is the country’s only campus-based, student-staffed publishing company.
Directed by professors and industry professionals, it is a non-profit activity of the
Communication Department at Loyola University Maryland. The Apprentice House model creates an unprecedented
collaborative environment among faculty and students, while teaching and
training tomorrow’s editors, designers, and marketers.
Apprentice
House only accepts 6-8 books per year, ensuring that its authors are given
individual and specialized attention from students and staff alike. All design and
marketing work at Apprentice House is conducted by students. Our authors enjoy
knowing that their books are helping to indoctrinate students into the world of
book publishing, offering them invaluable work experience and credentials for
their future careers.
For
the better part of the process, an author’s main point of contact will be one
or more Loyola students enrolled in the publishing courses offered by the department.
What to Expect from Apprentice House
The
Acquisitions Process.
Upon submission of your manuscript, your work will be assigned to students, who
will review it and make an initial recommendation about whether to proceed with
the acquisition, or to pass on the work. Before an author is offered an
agreement, Apprentice House will review the entire manuscript and supporting
materials and will discuss the work with the author.
Timeline. If you submit during the
spring or fall semester, you should hear from Apprentice House within eight
weeks of submission. Once formally acquired, projects may take up to 12 months
to reach publication, moving through at least two academic courses and the
review of students and faculty. Given that our staff consists primarily of
undergraduate students, Apprentice House is often at the mercy of the academic
calendar (i.e. summer, fall break, Thanksgiving and winter holidays, spring
break, etc.).
Ownership. Authors retain ownership of
their work, though Apprentice House retains the publication right to the
acquired edition of the work.
Royalties. Apprentice House offers
industry standard royalties for all forms of the published work. Because of its
non-profit nature and budgetary limitations, Apprentice House cannot offer
advances.
Marketing. Apprentice House is not able
to provide big-budget marketing for its publication. We rely heavily on our
authors to promote their books upon publication. Our marketing students select
a number of titles each year for which they create marketing plans. These plans
are provided to authors for implementation. Apprentice House does create/send a
press release upon a book’s publication, sends up to 10 review copies to media
and assists with the scheduling of media interviews.
What We Expect from Our Authors
We ask
for your understanding and patience as our student editors and designers “learn
by doing” throughout the semester. We also request your understanding that our
academic schedule often has us unreachable during the breaks mentioned above.
We expect
our authors to review any draft designs within 72 hours of receipt to ensure we
can keep on our production schedule.
We
expect our authors to be tireless self-promoters, and to keep us up-to-date on
events, readings and reviews so we can promote your successes.
For more information go directly to their website & good luck.
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About Jan Bowman
Winner of the 2011 Roanoke Review Fiction Award, Jan's stories have been nominated
for Pushcart Prizes, Best American Short
Stories, and a Pen/O’Henry award. Glimmer Train named a recent
story as Honorable Mention in the November 2012 Short Story Awards for New
Writers.
A recent story was a
finalist for the 2013 Broad
River Review RASH Award for Fiction,
another story was a 2013 finalist in the Phoebe Fiction Contest; another was a 2012 finalist in
the “So
To Speak” Fiction Contest. Jan’s fiction has appeared in numerous publications including, Roanoke Review,
Big Muddy, The Broadkill Review, Third Wednesday, Minimus, Buffalo Spree (97),
Folio, The Potomac Review, Musings, Potato Eyes and others. She is working on
two collections of short stories while shopping for a publisher for a completed
story collection, Mermaids & Other
Stories. She has nonfiction publications in Trajectory and Pen-in-Hand. She writes a weekly blog of “Reflections” on the writing life and posts regular interviews
with writers and publishers. Learn
more at: www.janbowmanwriter.com or visit
blog: http://janbowmanwriter.blogspot.com
Facebook: janbowman.77@facebook.com
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