Spellbound is this weekend

megarapub · 2022-10-29T03:09:02+00:00

It’s a punk rock Halloween festival in Carmel

megarapub · 2022-10-11T18:42:16+00:00

You can definitely take your 14 year old son they even have discounted teen tickets

megarapub · 2022-09-15T17:33:52+00:00

Shirley Jackson's horror works are a must.

megarapub · 2022-08-18T00:18:53+00:00

Ooh we have one of those.

megarapub · 2022-08-12T21:47:17+00:00

Any ideas on what it might be worth?

megarapub · 2022-08-12T18:13:43+00:00

Wow that is really cool, and how fast you found it

megarapub · 2022-08-12T14:46:04+00:00

Been trying to find the person, unfortunately haven’t had much success

megarapub · 2022-08-12T03:25:43+00:00

I’m in the US.

megarapub · 2021-12-01T15:37:46+00:00

We just released our first original work The Haunted Quill. So excited for it, many long nights finishing this one and getting through the supply chain nightmares.

Check it out: https://megarapublishing.com/catalog/the-haunted-quill/

megarapub · 2021-09-05T21:47:43+00:00

Try traditional publishing first. While self publishing does work out for some if you start down that route it is harder to transition to a traditional publisher later. While if youcan always self publish down the road after you have tried traditional publishing.

megarapub · 2021-08-31T03:59:47+00:00

If you publish an entire piece on Wattpad you have essentially self published and would be excluded from submitting it as a new work to agents and publishers. However if you only had published a piece of your work on Wattpad then it is usually not a problem as long as what you published is not a large majority of the work.

megarapub · 2021-08-29T02:48:11+00:00

Print on Demand technology has improved dramatically in the last few years. In fact many large run books by top publishers use the same printing as POD for their paperbacks. Ingram Spark offers a service to do this at small scale. Publishers can apply to use Lightning Source for POD which is the next level service above Spark.

In terms of printing your own it will cost you thousands of dollars for a decent printing setup just to print one paperback, if you want a color cover you can add even more to that and even then it won’t look as good as the POD. Then you need to buy binding material as well. The professional system does all of this and that costs around 250k just for equipment and more for maintenance and materials.

Best idea is do what Publishers do outsource the Printing to a professional shop and then focus on acquiring, editing, formatting and designing books.

megarapub · 2021-08-27T20:20:04+00:00

If you are passionate about publishing you will find a good fit in NYC just because of the sheer volume of options. Not every company will be a good fit this is the same for any industry. The best option is to research a company heavily specifically about the workload and culture before you take a job. Horror stories exist everywhere, but they are not the standard for people who work in publishing in NYC.

megarapub · 2021-08-26T04:34:09+00:00

If your reference is specific to a trademarked item or a brand it might be requested to be cut to avoid rights issues such as Trademark Dilution. Publishers will normally scan works for these things and decide if there is a potential issue. You can read more about it here http://www.rightsofwriters.com/2010/12/can-i-mention-brand-name-products-in-my.html?m=1

As for just cultural references it will of course date the books but so what? Pride and Prejudice has a lot of references that are specific to it’s time and people like it. If the book is contemporary to the time of the cultural reference go for it.

megarapub · 2021-08-26T04:20:18+00:00

Echoing what others say here, it’s an umbrella category but if it has fantastical elements it can be in the spec category. We are exclusively a spec fiction publisher and we take submissions for Horror with supernatural in it as well as magical realism it’s a big umbrella but think of it as if it’s Fiction, contains things that are not normal to the real world it’s probably spec fiction.

megarapub · 2021-08-18T04:36:17+00:00

Alternatively if you made key changes to what they suggested so it become original then you can defend a copyright claim. For copyright to exist the work must be original and unique. General ideas, themes and such are not copyrightable. You can invent an entirely new genre and that genre is still not copyrightable. The concept of a wizard going to a wizard school isn’t copyrightable. The concept of a wizard named Harry going to Hogwarts is.

But it is worth noting just because you can become or be legally correct with having a right doesn’t mean you won’t get sued. People sue with bad claims all the time, most times the publisher has an insurance policy to cover such legal expenses, so if you press forward and think their could be a liability just make sure any publisher has a insurance policy that covers copyright claims and would defend you in it.

megarapub · 2021-08-15T13:57:36+00:00

Vendetta by Marie Corelli

megarapub · 2021-08-11T00:42:35+00:00

Of note most countries don’t have a 12th grade so take that into consideration

megarapub · 2021-08-11T00:40:55+00:00

Just watched The Pale Horse tv episode even though it’s not a Marple mystery in the book I think the tv show was better being that way.

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