| 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 in 1992 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.
Old Mountain Press (OMP) has assisted hundreds of writers
self-publish their work. 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 to be in an IBM
compatible format using a program like WordPerfect, MS Word, etc.. If
submitting a file created with a Mac, please save it in Rich Text Format
(.rtf).
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.
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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