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For more
information about self-publishing in general and Long Dash in
particular, listen to the interview with partner Tim Harper at The Writing Show. And here's the latest glowing (thankfully) story about us, "Helping authors get into print"
Click here for more stories about us.
Please feel free to
Email
us
or phone 201-342-1000.
We've been doing a lot of public speaking recently about the future of publishing in general and self-publishing in particular.
Click here for more on where's we've been, and on upcoming events
We are launching a new series of local restaurant/dining guides, starting with Where to Eat in Ridgewood.
Check it out, have guides customized for personal gifts or for your own
business use, and let us know if we should do a guide for your town.
Ask about our new service:
we will help you write your personal, family or business history
Long Dash Publishing
You drop off your manuscript on a disk (or e-mail it to us or send us a disk), and we print it ourselves, on site
and give you back a book – a trade paperback with a cover of your own
design. Long Dash Publishing uses new technology to help anyone get a
book in print faster and less expensively than ever before. Depending on
how involved the project is, we can help you get your book into print within a few weeks, and sometimes within days. On a few occasions, for uncomplicated jobs, we've made books for people within 48 hours.
We work with a number of experienced, previously published authors, but we love to work with first-time authors.
We're writers and editors, too (that's why we started this business)
and we like to think of ourselves as the most author-friendly
self-publishing service on the planet. Click at left to check out some of the books we've helped publish recently and are on sale on our Web site.
Prices begin at $175 for the first 10 copies of your book
(more for 8.5x11-inch books or books longer than 250 pages) and go down
after that: $125 for the next 10 copies, and $85 for every 10 copies
thereafter. Costs go up if you want full-color covers, glossy or
linen-finish covers, text paper upgrades, photos or illustrations in the
text, and other formatting and design requirements. We're experimenting
with color graphics in the text, but they can be prohibitively
expensive. Manuscripts must be digital and properly formatted. You can
check out how to submit your book for publication and do the formatting
yourself to save time and money and get exactly the design and layout
you want, or you can ask us to do the formatting for you.
Additional Services can help you design your cover, edit your book, register your copyright, and obtain your ISBN and corresponding bar code. For more on what we can and cannot do and the quality of our printing and binding, click on Frequently Asked Questions
here or at left. An important point for authors: We're not a mass
production operation. We fill a small self-publishing niche. We make
books one at a time, and much of the process is by hand. We are proud of
the books we make, but we don't want to raise expectations that we can
do everything that the big commercial publishers, printers or design
houses can do. Many authors use our books for family and friends, and as
proofs or works-in-progress to show to agents, editors and publishers
in hopes of landing a book deal with a commercial publishing house.
Besides printing your own book, we can print many classic books that are in the public domain.
Would you like a copy of Tom Sawyer that is less expensive than the commercially-printed edition on the shelves? Would you like a copy of A Tale of Two Cities
with your name on the cover? Are you a teacher or a member of a book
club or a school superintendent who would like to save money by having
us print copies of classic books for you or your students? Ask about the
classics we can print.
Who is Long Dash for?
· First-time authors who want to get their books in print.
· Professional writers re-publishing out-of-print books.
· Nonfiction authors who want their proposals to be bound like books.
· Novelists who want their manuscripts bound to show agents and editors.
· Professors who want their course materials in a single volume.
· Teachers who want to compile student work into books for the students.
· Companies and institutions that want their handbooks in book form.
· Graduate students who want their theses to look professional.
· Family historians who want a book for relatives, and for posterity.
· Journal-keepers and memoir writers who want their recollections preserved.
· Cooks who want to compile their recipes in their own personal books.
· Anybody who wants to publish a book for any reason.
If you have more
questions, check out the links at left. Other sections of this site can
answer most of your questions, and you can email James at longdash@gmail.com.
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