World Weaver Press

[Saanen]

Anyone know anything about World Weaver Press? http://worldweaverpress.com/
They started following me on Twitter so I visited their website. It's good-looking but short on information like staff experience, distribution, etc. It looks like they publish ebooks through Smashwords and do POD for some titles, but I didn't see their criteria for how they determine which books go to print and which don't (I'm assuming sales will be the main factor). They're opening to subs on May 1.

[Theo81]

The Editor-in-chief, Eileen Wiedbrauk, is also one of the writers.

The website looks decent enough - easy to navigate, the information is all there, aimed at buyers not authors etc.

I don't see any specific experience listed and Google doesn't throw anything obvious up.

There's nothing here which would give me confidence to submit right away, but there's nothing glaring to put me off either. I say, give them a year or two and see what they've done with it.

[Little Ming]

They are open for submissions.

Any news/info/experiences/impressions?

[Leah J. Utas]

I submitted to them the other day. I will report back when I know something.

[herdon]

Found this bit interesting:

Do you offer authors advances?

No. Many large, conglomerate publishers offer writers advances, or “an advance against future royalties.” In that situation, your book has to earn more money than you received in your advance before you see additional payment. It is also part of the large conglomerate’s exuberant amount of overhead. World Weaver is a small press, independently owned and operated with a limited budget and minimal overhead. Therefore, we do not pay advances against future royalties; we pay actual royalties earned by your work.

While not literally saying anything bad about advances, they try their best to act like advances are bad. Good examples are that advances are part of "exuberant amount of overhead" and later putting the emphasis on "actual royalties".

Or in other words, paying authors is part of conglomerate’s exuberant overhead and an advance is something other than an actual royalty.

Dunno. I'd say getting paid up front because the publisher has faith in the book is a good thing 8)

Other than that bit, sounds like your standard author-turned-publisher start up.

[triceretops]

Originally Posted by herdon

Found this bit interesting:



While not literally saying anything bad about advances, they try their best to act like advances are bad. Good examples are that advances are part of "exuberant amount of overhead" and later putting the emphasis on "actual royalties".

Or in other words, paying authors is part of conglomerate’s exuberant overhead and an advance is something other than an actual royalty.

Dunno. I'd say getting paid up front because the publisher has faith in the book is a good thing 8)

Other than that bit, sounds like your standard author-turned-publisher start up.

Yep, very typical of the mission statements found in start-ups, or actually, the majority of small pubs. They have to justify it somehow--I wish they would just stay closed mouth about it. It's not a matter of "We don't do it for these various reasons", it's more like they can't do it for financial ones.

tri

[Leah J. Utas]

Reporting back as promised.

Eileen Wiedbrauk sent me a rejection a little while ago, but was kind and helpful as to why she rejected me.
As bad news goes, this was done kindly.

[Anarchic Q]

Submitted last night, received a reply this evening.
My rejection came across as quite blunt.

[Lady Silver]

Hi, I notice WWP's open submission period is coming up again. I'm considering subbing but aside from the upthread, does anyone have any further experience to offer with these publishers?

[justbishop]

I'm wondering why a free Wordpress.com site when server space is cheap and self-hosted Wordpress is fairly simple to install (or cheap to hire someone to install). I wish publishers would realize that it looks amateurish to use a free blog site to host their business site.

[Lady Silver]

Good point!

[Emualde]

WWP is officially open to submissions until July 31st! Check out the editor wishlist: http://worldweaverpress.com/2013/04/...sk-april-2013/