Singing Moon Press LLC

Singing Moon Press LLC News for April

2008-04-15T07:18:00.000-07:00

The deal isn't final yet, but Pet Serrano has found a cause interested in sharing the profits from her book, Loki's Parrot, a maddening story about a kitten dealing with an irritating parrot based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

That being said, Singing Moon Press LLC is open for submissions. We are looking for completed 28-page picture books in full color by writers and illustrators with an interest in social responsibility. For a typical Singing Moon Press picture book, watch the video of Best Friends No Matter What.

SMP keeps our environmental impact low by using print-on-demand technology and by buying back unsold copies rather than having them destroyed. Ten percent of our retail profits are given to author-approved charities and you earn money for self-promotion and blogging-- Myspace and Catster included.

Visit the main site for details on submitting queries.

Singing Moon Press LLC News for March

2008-03-19T06:05:00.000-07:00

Singing Moon Press recently received a publishing grant from the Robert A. Nevin Trust.

This has resulted in a few overhauls as we go in a new direction. SMP has converted to a Limited Liability Company and is looking into creating a "Cause-related marketing" system which will allow us to donate 10% of our retail profits to charities chosen by our authors.

In addition, we are working to have unsold books returned to us for resale or donation. The current industry practice is for bookstores to tear off the covers and destroy unsold books. We think this is a deplorable waste of hundreds of thousands of trees. Forty percent of books sold to bookstores are reported unsold and destroyed. We have avoided some of this problem by using print-on-demand technology but need to work harder to find places for the books we are planning to repurchase.

There are some plans in the works to give away new releases to bloggers. There is no way for a small company in the notoriously unprofitable business of producing children's books to compete with large corporations in the large media. We think turning to bloggers and webmasters might be the way to go.

Singing Moon Press News for February

2008-02-06T02:00:00.000-08:00

Note from the Editor:

We are going through some major changes which will require changing the format of the blog and the website and cause a delay in the re-release of the Loki books. Thank you for your patience!