Hello... I'm Gretchen {Hi Gretchen} and I'm married to a writer... starting a publishing company!

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Although I'm not a writer per se -- I hope to learn a lot from this forum! I do love to read and my husband is a writer. I just might have a few ideas mulling around in my head and who knows... maybe I'll be brave enough to put pen to paper one day, but mostly I see myself as the logical, practical, non-creative one!

I'm a computer nerd by trade and Hubby's day job is as a Secondary school principal. We are both lucky enough to work at the same school and love it! When he isn't busy "principal-ing" he writes YA/Teen Fiction.

We are starting our own publishing company so I can handle the business end of his stuff. It's VERY overwhelming but I think it will be worth it! He has some published works by a small independent publisher and we are dropping that publisher (on good terms) and re-publishing under our own "house" so I will wait until all that is in place before I talk about his work! I honestly think I can do as good or better than his current guy. And maybe it's the control freak in me - but I want to see more detailed sales reporting and be in control of when we run promotions etc. We'll see how it goes I guess!!

Anyway -- for not being a writer - I can be pretty wordy I guess! :D I am looking forward to getting to know you guys!
 
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What an excellent idea, a husband-wife writer-publisher duo. You guys could be unstoppable. Good luck with everything.

I'm Dane, also new. Look forward to getting to know you and hearing about your progress.
 
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Thanks for the welcome! I'm hoping that I can learn and focus on the business end - and let him focus on writing and creating content!
 

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congrats 'n much good luck w. your publishing co. Sounds very interesting. It's great here!
 

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Hi Gretchen, my wife and I were in the publishing field for 22 years, and loved it. Good for you and your husband. After a stroke, I had to get out of it, so we ceased ten years ago. We published a lot of new writers and artists, and miss it now. We still publish some of my books, but most are with publishers. Hey, visit my Blog sometimes.
 

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Hi, and welcome.:welcome:

Wishing you every luck in your new venture.
 

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Hi! That's so awesome. I can only imagine all of the work that goes into publishing novels, and the fact that you two are starting a new company is pretty darn cool. I hope things go smoothly for you guys! And welcome! :)
 

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Welcome, I'm new, too!
That sounds amazing, starting a publishing company. Do you know yet what you will specialize in publishing (if anything)?

:)