The 2022 Anthology
The theme for the
2022 is “Evergreen”. This can of course refer to the Christmas tree. There can clearly also be a green agenda
here. What might we do to keep our
planet ever green? Or you can go for the
symbolic. Isn’t the Christmas tree a symbol of hope?
Submissions
accepted
6 December 2020 until 28 February 2022
Editors'
decisions
by 31May or there abouts!
Editorial 1 June until 31 August
Book design
and early marketing 1 September until 14 November
Book release 15 November
Celebration event 3 December
See how to
submit: https://www.bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/index.php/call-for-new-submissions
Payments to writers
From 1 January 2022 we are increasing the percentage of net
sales that you earn to 75% for any time that your book is “in the black”. This
will be reflected in all new contracts and applied also to authors on older
contracts.
We are “not for profit” so the remaining 25% is what we use
to set up new books. Debz, Martin and I do the work upfront on the whole and
pay ourselves later the 50% of net sales on books that are in the red. We also pay freelancers. Figures in red on
our monthly statements indicate where we have paid a freelancer. Figures in
green show where we have worked “in house”.
Where figures are all black, look forward to 75% of net sales.
Hard launch / soft launch
This will now appear on contracts where we used to have
“release” and “post production”. “Soft launch” is the date when the book is
made available but it yet has to appear on all retail sites and get through the
Amazon hoops. You can still get some loyal friends, family, fans and followers
to read and review for you.
“Hard launch” is the day on which the title is officially
released. Most books come out on a Thursday. So, we’ll pinpoint this day as the
last Thursday of the month chosen for “hard release”. This is the ideal day to
have a launch but of course any time after that is also acceptable.
Remember, we can’t attend every physical launch, and we
can’t provide champagne and a custom cake BUT we can let you have twenty books
upfront. If you live within twenty miles
of where we live, we’ll gladly attend and do anything you would like us to do:
wash up, help set out the chairs handle sales, be MC etc. etc. And we’re also happy
to organise a launch on Zoom.
See ideas about launches in So
Now You’re Published, What next? and
also in my course The
Business of Writing
Celebration Event at the Theodore
Bullfrog Pub
This was like coming home. We’ve used then in the past and
they have always been very good. We thought they’d become a little small. However, there is always a drop out number
and in fact this will accommodate easily what we have left.
We are still living in difficult times and they were very
accommodating about us having to chop and change the order.
They set the room up beautifully for us – see pictures
below.
