| About Old Mountain
Press
Self-publishing can be as exhilarating as finishing
the climb. Like you, I am a writer and know the frustration involved
in "getting published." With the help of my younger brother, a south Georgia
lawyer, I dealt with that frustration by forming the Old Mountain Press,
Inc. We are now registered in North Carolina as Old Mountain Press &
Software. As a registered press, we own a block of ISBN numbers and can
provide you with one for $100.00 or we can advise you on how to set up
your own press and purchase your own block of ISBNs. We have several books
in print and more forthcoming.
The Old Mountain Press (OMP) assists writers in self-publishing.
We assist first time authors as well as seasoned writers with several books
to their credit. We have had authors as young as 16 and as old as 85.
Writers must provide their work error free on diskette or as an attached
file via e-mail. We prefer files in the WordPerfect program format but
can work with various versions of Ami Pro, ASCII, DisplayWrite, MS Word,
Office Writer, and Word Star. If you are unable to provide a diskette or
e-mail file, OMP can provide editing and/or typing
support for an additional charge. Files must be created in IBM compatible
format, not MAC.
Few if any of us can do an adequate job editing our own
stuff. Our editors can help you ready your material for self-publishing
or for submission to an agent, publishing house, or magazine. They edit
everything from short stories and position papers to novels and doctoral
dissertations. They do light or heavy editing. They'll even help you students
edit your term papers (not ghost write--sorry :-). Select
an editor and e-mail him or her for more information and pricing. You'll
be glad you did! We can also recommend someone who will retype your manuscript
if it is hand written or typed and you don't have it on a computer disk.
Contact
us if you need this service. Also See Typing
Assistance.
Please note that Old Mountain Press is not a vanity press.
We do not profess to market the writer's work, but we can advertise the
writer's work through our books in print. and we will build a web page
for your book at no cost and post it in our Books
in Print section with your ordering information placed on your book's
web page. We specialize in low cost, short run (200 minimum), high quality
perfect-bound book production.
You can get an estimate from us by filling out this electronic
mailto form or compute the estimate yourself by viewing our FAQ
on cost.
If you decide to self-publish with OMP and are a North
Carolina writer, I, as OMP's editor, will contact the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill's North Carolina Collection and inform them of
the availability of a signed first edition of your work. The curator usually
sends you a purchase order for your book within sixty days and includes
your work in UNC's Wilson Library.
We our printer has a wide variety of full-color cover
designs. Many of them are at no charge. See our FAQ page
or click
here to go directly our cover selections.
If you would like a saddle-stapled book, we
can typeset it for you and you can then take the typeset galley to some
place like Office Max and have any number printed on paper you pick out
for the inside and cover. This can save you quite a bit of money.
You simply have to take what we send you in camera ready format (A 40 page
book will have page 1 to the left and page 40 to the right on an 8.5 X
11 size page in horizontal position). We will prepare the camera
ready copy for your collection of poetry or short stories at $4.00 per
page with a minimum charge of $100.00. See our FAQ
on minimum run. For an estimate on this please
contact
us. All books’ page count must be divisible by four.
There are good reasons to self-publish, and there are
bad reasons to self-publish. Consider this carefully, and if you are interested
in self-publishing through Old Mountain Press, please contact
us.
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