It’s here again: The last Friday of
the month. Which makes it time to review some goals. For those of you who are
new to this site or don’t know, I particiapate in Misha Gerrick blog challenge: Five Year
Goals. I tend to need accountability when I commit to something, and this
offers me that. Thanks to Misha for putting this on each month. If you’d like to
join us you can. Here’s the link.
My goal is to run a world-class
publishing company. I’m a little over two years into this thing and so far it’s
going good. We’ve just added another illustrator to the mix: Jessica Gadra. You
can check out her work at: www.jessicagadra.com
. She is amazing. She specializes in pen and ink with watercolor fairytales and
that’s what she’ll be doing for us. Her first project will be The Gift by Liz Daniels. Look for it in
January. And while I’m excited about that, I’m even more excited about another
opportunity that having her on the team has created. A long time now I’ve wanted
to do a fairytale book. I’m not talking the happy, sweet kind, no think Brother’s
Grimm. Dark. I’ve written a few myself but it never felt like enough. And I didn’t
have any cool illustrations…
Drum roll please…
Beginning October 31, 2017—Halloween—Black
and White will begin accepting submissions for a Ubook fairytale anthology to
be released the following Halloween: Sister’s Grimm. We’d like the stories to
be true to those roots: gritty, dark fairytales—but like all good fairytales
there has to be a moral at the end. The tales should be between 250 and 1,000
words. And the authors need to be women. Sorry guys, have to stay true to the
title. Each selected story will have an original musical score by Nathan Moran
and original illustrations by Jessica Gadra. This is going to be awesome! For those
selected, a contract will be offered, which includes payment of 25% gross of
all revenue received. (And the cool thing about Ubooks is that each story is a separate
video, so if yours is popular, you get
all that revenue. It’s not divided among all the authors of the anthology.)
Submissions will close on 12/31/18-New Year’s Eve. Email your tales to: Submissions@blackandwhitepublishingco.com
I can’t wait to read what
you’ve written!
