Publishing Experience
Up until now, my publishing experience has been frought with frustration. Red Deer Press, for instance, are very tight-lipped (ie: they don’t respond to e-mails) and I’ve been waiting for a cheque from them since the end of November for the contributor’s fee to The Alberta Anthology. A couple of weeks ago, when I called them, they got me to phone Toronto to hound the head office. And they said they were cutting cheques one by one for the contributors. One at a time! Obviously I’m far down in that list. Alphabetical? By page number in anthology? Who knows? I’ve got no straight answers, really.
Thankfully, Gaspereau Press is nothing like this at all. They have been an absolute pleasure to deal with so far. They e-mail with every update: today, just to tell me the proofed galleys were in the mail. And to ask if I had any strong preferences for a cover colour. (I told them I liked their blue covers with the silver print and the purple covers.) I can’t say enough about how great these people are. I get the sense that books are not just a business or a product. And I noticed they just upgraded their site. Check it out.