The Scurfpea Publishing 2010 Anthology
Be Published!
We will choose the best (as our editor sees them) 40-70 poems submitted to editor@scurfpeapublishing.com for this anthology. If we don’t get at least 40 poems the editor finds of high enough quality, the anthology will be canceled. This will be a quality publication.
The Deal
The book
Paperback, perfect bound, color cover, professional design and layout
Available through the authors, very limited local venues, Amazon.com. (for 1 year)
It will sell for around $15, depending on printing costs this fall.
The planned date of publication is the end of October 2010.
Title and cover art will be determined after the poems have been chosen.
Copyright issues
All copyrights of individual poems will remain with the authors, save for permission
to print submitted poems in the anthology and limited reprints of individual poems for publicity purposes.
The book will not be submitted for copyright or to the Library of Congress—the
paperwork is too egregious for an anthology.
How you make money
No royalties will be paid from Amazon.com sales or other outlets—the bookkeeping is
beyond the ability of a small press
If you have a special situation, say an aunt in Guam who wants to buy it on
Amazon.com, contact Scurfpea Publishing first and we can work out
a way to share royalties after receiving a copy of the bill.
The money you make will depend upon your ability to sell the book! Books will be
available to authors at $5 below retail. You can order as many as you want with
no penalty for small orders—except for shipping and handling (naturally, the larger
your order the smaller these expenses will be per book—these will be standard amounts with no hidden way for Scurfpea to make money) which will be
through a third party. Sell 30 books, you should make close to $140 (just a rough
guess at the cost of shipping). You may order as many times as you want
as long as the book is available (at least a year).
How to submit your poems
Submission of poems is free. This is not a vanity publication.
Please send no more than 15.
Send them only electronically by emailing them to editor@scurfpeapublishing.com.
Word and pdf formats may be sent as attachments.
Otherwise, include the poems as text in the body of your email.
Have your name and email address on each poem.
Title the email: anthology.
Only submissions received on or before July 5, 2010 will be considered.
Submission of poems indicates agreement to the above terms.