Need some
help with your unpublished manuscript? Cynthia Hickey, hybrid, and Amazon
best-selling author, and her small ebook line, may be the ones who can help
you.
Today’s
publishing world is changing faster than some writers can keep up. Not only
must you have a well-written book, but you must be prolific. Where once, you
needed a large publisher to see your book in print, with small royalties and a
long time to wait before seeing the fruit of your labor, today that is no
longer the case. A book can be in ebook form and in print via print-on-demand
within a matter of weeks and royalties paid to the author are much higher than
in the traditional route. It’s an exciting time to be a writer!
Today’s
author wears many hats; writer, publisher, marketer, cover designer, etc. They
must be active on social media. Everywhere they turn, they’re bombarded with
what’s new, what’s old, what doesn’t work anymore and what’s the new thing to
guarantee sales.
We’re told we
must have a book published every three months in order to stay in the reader’s
sights. While this is true, it is often overwhelming to those who take longer
to complete a manuscript than others.
Are you tired of writing to fit a mold?
Have you received the rights back on previously traditionally published works?
Do you have a dusty manuscript that can’t find a home? Then Take Me Away Books or Forget Me Not Romances may be the place for you.
The Forget Me Not Romances is a line of sweet, clean and/or inspirational novels
that allow the reader to get lost in a good romance. This line is open to
romance genres of historical, western, contemporary, suspense, and mystery.
Don’t worry. If you contact us about one line, and we feel you’ll fit better with
the other one, we’ll switch you over if that’s what you prefer.
A lot of authors, while writing the book of
their heart, find that their baby doesn’t fit into a particular niche. That’s
no reason to stick the story on a shelf or in a drawer. Take Me Away Books and Forget Me Not Romances are small presses dedicated to helping authors who want
to publish their book in ebook form. We’re looking for romantic suspense,
mystery, memoirs, fantasy, science fiction, and everything in between. You
wrote a story about a time-traveling fairy? Okay. If it’s a well-written story
about a time-traveling fairy, we’ll take it.
Take
Me Away Books is open to all genres, except for
erotica and children’s books, and books posted there will have a rating,
similar to a movie rating. Forget Me Not Romances, devoted to clean and sweet books, won’t need a rating
because of their wholesomeness. Both lines will run in the same manner and the
information can be found here. If you have more questions, please email me at
cynthiahickey(at)outlook.com. We are open to submissions for both lines. Come
find a home for your baby. If you have a submission, please send it to cynthiahickey(at)outlook.com
with SUBMISSION in the subject line.
In order to give each of our authors
the attention they deserve, Take Me Away Books and Forget Me Not Romances will be very selective in who they accept. We want to
take pride in the services we offer and in the finished product. Writing for a small press, where the
authors not only actively promote their book, but the entire line, helps everyone
reach a wider market.
This is an exciting venture for us as we
enter into the world of being a publisher. There are a lot of books available
to help a person get their book in ebook form, but all of these take time.
Often, a writer finds that the details take up time that they would rather
spend writing. With more and more books showing up on ebook distributing sites,
it often takes a team to reach as many people as possible. We want to help you
get started.
Why publish with a small press? Why go
ebook? Why go indie when you want to be traditional? Why not start indie and
strive for being a hybrid? The primary reason for using a small press is to
bypass the misconceived notion of what self-published is and have the backing
of a publisher’s name. This also helps you build a readership and hone your
craft in order to entice a traditional publisher. Don’t be surprised though if
you decide to stay with a small press. The higher royalties might be worth it
to you. If you’re a traditionally published author looking to fill in between
contracts or list your back lists, ebooks are a great way to pull in readers to
your traditionally published books and vice versa.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: Fiction or non-fiction
that is well-written and will appeal to readers. Genres: romance, romantic
suspense, mystery, historical romance, science fiction, fantasy, New
Adult, Young Adult, or any combination thereof. We’re looking for author’s
willing to work as a team to market their books in an ever-growing world.
WHAT WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR: Erotica or Children’s
books. Authors who want to sit back, do nothing, and see what happens. This
doesn’t work in any type of business. Ever hear the saying “It takes a village
to raise a child”? Well, it takes a team to build a book.
We want to be a part of that team.
Multi-published and Amazon Best-Selling author
Cynthia Hickey had three cozy mysteries and two novellas published through
Barbour Publishing. Her first mystery, Fudge-Laced Felonies, won first place in
the inspirational category of the Great Expectations contest in 2007. Her third
cozy, Chocolate-Covered Crime, received a four-star review from Romantic Times.
All three cozies have been re-released as ebooks through the MacGregor Literary
Agency, along with a new cozy series, all of which stay in the top 50 of
Amazon’s ebooks for their genre. She has several historical romances releasing
in 2013, 2014, 2015 through Harlequin’s Heartsong Presents, and has sold more
than 300,000 copies of her works. She is active on FB, twitter, and Goodreads.
She lives in Arizona with her husband, one of their seven children, two dogs
and two cats. She has five grandchildren who keep her busy and tell everyone
they know that “Nana is a writer”.
