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If you have
completed a book and haven’t found or decided on a publisher,
DamnYankee.com may be interested in working with you. We exist in
order to offer good literature, new and old, on the Worldwide Web.
We don’t offer advances, only exposure and the chance for some sales.
Publishers, to their shame, are passing up much of the best work being
written today. Is that because they rely almost solely on agents?
Is it because agents’ reputations are made or destroyed according to the
financial returns they can deliver? Would Steinbeck, Eliot, London,
Alcott, Grey, or Roberts have found a publisher under today’s
conditions?
Perhaps no agent has persuaded a printing house that your opus is a blockbuster, and maybe it isn’t. Nor was The True Believer by Eric Hoffer, The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings, or Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. (Since they weren't blockbusters, conventional wisdom would suggest they shouldn't have been published.) Maybe no agent has agreed to look at your work at all. There are several other web sites offering exposure of previously unpublished works, some requiring no more than evidence of rejection by a conventional publishing house. Some charge high fees for signing on but will probably publish whatever you’re willing to finance. We are particular, however, about the subject, quality, and presentation of what you’ve written. We seek primarily book-length literature by as-yet unpublished writers who have composed works that sensible publishers should be sending to the printing presses. We believe that a gift for telling a good yarn, a sense for structure in a story, years of practice, something to write about, and, above all, an exceptional command of your language can make a good writer even in the absence of courses and degrees in writing. what to do - Read “what we want” and “our plan.” Read our “policies/disclaimer” and “what takes so long.” Then get in touch with us. old
masters - It was our aim at our
founding in 1999 that we would publish, electronically, public-domain
classics by great old masters. We have since learned that several
Internet publishers are engaged in this effort, and their libraries are
growing rapidly. DamnYankee.com will leave this effort to them and
concentrate on works by contemporary authors.
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