Starting a Small Press

[jeffthegeek]

Ok so I am no good at keeping LJ up to date, but I am going to try to post here more often.

So I've started a new venture which has been keeping me fairly busy. Most of my friends know about it, but I thought I'd mention it on here anyways. I started a small press, Lilley Press. Things are moving at light speed at Lilley Press, I have five employees, and we have two authors we are working on getting signed and getting their novels ready for production. So far it has been an interesting learning experience and overall fun time, I'd love it if I could start working on Lilley Press full time and leave my "day job" behind.

In addition to the five employees I have already signed up there is a list of others looking to join on, but for now five is enough. The five are:

• Sharon Partington, the acquisitions editor
• Sarah Wagner, the marketing director
• Denyse Loeb. the senior editor
• Jessica D., editor
• Val Griswold-Ford, editor

Its been interesting to see the quality of work pouring into our slush pile, even the works we have outright rejected have, for the most part, been pretty good. So far we have accepted one Cyberpunk sci-fi novel and one Contemporary Romance novel. Both manuscripts I could not put down.