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Ron63
 29 Jan 2011, 13:10 #109715 Reply To Post
If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com

I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books.

If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on.
stjerome
 29 Jan 2011, 13:16 #109717 Reply To Post
Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:10
If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com

I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books.

If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on.


"Crooked Hat is an Independent Publisher of humerous and lighthearted fiction and non fiction."

HUMEROUS???
Doesn't inspire one with confidence, does it?

Tim
Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 -1913)
Palache
 29 Jan 2011, 13:23 #109718 Reply To Post
Quote: stjerome, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:16
Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:10
If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com

I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books.

If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on.


"Crooked Hat is an Independent Publisher of humerous and lighthearted fiction and non fiction."

HUMEROUS???
Doesn't inspire one with confidence, does it?

Tim



He's checking your sense of humer.
my website
stjerome
 29 Jan 2011, 13:31 #109719 Reply To Post
Quote: Palache, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:23
Quote: stjerome, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:16
Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 13:10
If anyone is interested, there's a new UK publisher just setting up in business that is looking for authors at http://crookedhatpublishing.com

I made inquiries about children's books and offered to send my Humpty Dumpty story. He sent a really encouraging and pleasant reply saying, because he knows very little about the children's book market at present he is not accepting children's stories at present. However, based on what he has read on my website and reading the synopsis of the Humpty story, which he said has great potential, he invited me to try again in about 12 months time when he may be more informed about children's books.

If you have a good novel handy, why not give him a try. He takes about one. let us konw how you got on.


"Crooked Hat is an Independent Publisher of humerous and lighthearted fiction and non fiction."

HUMEROUS???
Doesn't inspire one with confidence, does it?

Tim



He's checking your sense of humer.


Perhaps my humerus is my funny bone then??

Tim

Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 -1913)
Ron63
 29 Jan 2011, 14:04 #109722 Reply To Post
So sorry for trying to be helpful
sod
 29 Jan 2011, 14:25 #109727 Reply To Post
Hi Ron. Thanks for trying to give everyone the heads up. I've just had a look, and on their home page, I found this - If you have you written something you would like to see published? If so, we would like to hear from you.
This alone puts me off. If the publisher can't even string a sentence together, what's the point? Who knows? Maybe it would be worth contacting them, just to see what they are really about.
Thanks anyway, Ron.
Lisa.
Ron63
 29 Jan 2011, 15:03 #109731 Reply To Post
Thanks Sod. I have noticed a couple of other mistakes too, which I didn't notice on my first reading of the site. I usually skim read most sites then act - or not. Maybe I should I slow down a bit.
Cinnamon
 29 Jan 2011, 19:19 #109748 Reply To Post
Quote: Ron63, Saturday, 29 Jan 2011 15:03
Thanks Sod. I have noticed a couple of other mistakes too, which I didn't notice on my first reading of the site. I usually skim read most sites then act - or not. Maybe I should I slow down a bit.


Be really careful, Ron. On top of what Sod says, the fact that the site gives no details about who runs the company or their publishing experience rings alarm bells. As for all the typos...
E-asy Peasy?
dancingsue
 30 Jan 2011, 10:30 #109771 Reply To Post
It sounds like someone who will be willing to take a cut from a self-publishing house in return for business. I've heard these 'agencies' are springing up left, right and centre. Preying on desperation.
the long and the short of it

erict
 30 Jan 2011, 10:36 #109774 Reply To Post
Something that is one word away from "crooked publishing" is a scam???? No! yah think... I'd better ask my solicitor "Robin M. Blynde"
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