Category: FAQ

Meet the New Intern

Our new intern, J. Angel Ellison is planning to assist on the Blog. They may have a learning curve over the next week or so. Please give them a bit to learn the way of working with the blog.

They are hoping to eventually promote a social media following. This blog will grow with their creativity and we will hopefully have more for you to see here with their touches here.

Up until now all of what was posted as Fae Corps Pub was done by the owners of Fae Corps Publishing. Well the owner has their own blog – {{Pattimouse}}} So I will be posting further as my own name. The Intern will be taking over the FaeCorpsPub Identity.

The posts may be a little late for the next week as they are getting used to this process.

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Ask us anything

We are an open book.

Feel free to ask us anything about our authors, our catalog, or about us.

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Our stance on AI

As a indie press that strives to spotlight the voice of the individual writer- Fae Corps Publishing is against the Idea of the use of AI to create any creative endeavors.

We will not publish it.

We do not want to see it.

That is our opinion.

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Changes Upcoming.

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It has been brought to our attention that some of our older anthologies are being printed with some formatting errors. We changed where we do our print books – and due to just how busy we have been we failed to move the older volumes when we did so.

First off – We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. We are aware now of the issue. We will be over the next few months moving the rest of our books out of the placement they were with.

Unfortunately, we originally trusted Draft2digital’s print program with our print books. We found them to be a terrible option. Their system tries to mess with the formatting on anything that they can. We only offer them epub for the Ebooks and this clears up the problem there. They cannot adjust the formatting on an Epub. However for the Print option they will not accept any file type that they cannot play with. It ends up with a mess of mistakes in the formatting. We will be by the end of March, hopefully, pulling all of our books from their print area. We will update all of the Books2read.com links with the proper Barnes and Nobles and Amazon links as they are available. We will only do one book at a time.

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Answering the Query: Do you charge?

Do we charge? Well, it depends on the situation and the status. If you are asking if we charge to read manuscripts or writing samples, then no. However, due to how busy we stay, we do not promise to send feedback (Unless we feel the need) or to rush your read.

If we choose to publish your manuscript we generally take 25% of the royalties in exchange for the work we do. That means that you get the remaining royalties. This work often includes, but is not limited to, Editing, Cover Design, Formatting, publishing, Marketing assistance, and often more.

We do our best to try and bring your work to life in a way that you can be proud of it.

We do not charge to publish the anthology submissions…Depending on the anthology we even pay royalties for some of them.

If you are not publishing with us we do charge for editing – $0.20 per word in most cases with a 50-word free test edit. (The test edit is where we determine the final per word cost. If the manuscript is edit needy the price may go up. For lighter editing needs it may go down.)

If you want us to do cover design and are not publishing with us…the price is variable but usually around 30 per cover.

If you are not publishing with us, each of the services we do for our authors is available but with a variable price…on a case by case basis.

We try to be reasonable in our pricing because we want to see you succeed.

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Answering the Query Where and what all do you publish?

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We publish a wide variety of books. Currently, we have a catalog that includes romance, horror, memoirs, children’s books, poetry, and fantasy. We are in discussions with authors of game books and a coloring book. We do each book on a case by case basis. This allows us to maintain the quality of the products we produce.

We use a wide variety of places for our Ebooks, using Draft2digital to assist us in distribution. We also distribute through Amazon and Google play directly. We use Barnes and noble for print – both hard and paper back editions. We also use Amazon to try and make it easier for people to find our books.

we update the reading list as we produce new books – www.books2read.com/rl/faecorpsllc

If you have other questions you want to see in this format send an email and I will see about doing them.

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Answering The Query: What do you accept for submissions?

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We do roughly three anthologies a year. We do a monthly newsletter.

Anthologies –

A typeface for all submissions…Either Times New Roman, Arial, or Ubuntu. Something easy to read. No really weird formatting please. at least 12 pt font.

Stories – The paid versions are limited in the slots, but we are looking for between 3k and 6k word count on the stories. The word count is not a fixed thing…if your story is 2880 words…send it. If your story is 6500-word count, send it. We will help you to get it where it needs to be. The unpaid anthologies have similar requirements without limitations.

Poetry – This is where we limit the amount. Sending in huge amounts of poetry makes it difficult for us to sort through the submissions. We ask that you limit it to 5 per entry. This gives us a reasonable ability to choose the best work that is sent to us. We do not limit form or style. We do ask that the poem be able to fit on a single page.

Art – Printing does usually end up with the pictures going to grayscale. Ebooks will have the picture in color. 300dpi is required for publication. We again ask that you limit yourself to 5 submissions of this variety to each anthology. We appreciate the talent in your work but it makes it harder on us to put together a showcase of indie talent.

Newsletter-

Much of the newsletter is the same as the anthologies. The only real difference is that the newsletter goes out monthly. At the end of each year, we choose from the newsletter to release a yearly best-of anthology.

When you submit – Your submission should either be an attachment or a google docs link. It should come with a short bio written in 3rd person. Include a picture for the about the author area – either a picture of you or a logo or something similar. Make sure there is at least one link where you can be found in your bio.

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Answering The Query: Do you Pay?

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This is perhaps the first question asked when it comes to publication. We have two types of an anthology that we do.

Paid anthologies – These have limited slots. Usually 9 stories and 10 art/Poetry slots. We require the author of the stories to assist with the marketing. Those who do will receive 10% of the total royalties paid for the anthology. Those who do not or those that submit Poetry or Art receive 1% of the royalties. These anthologies are to promote the authors.

Unpaid anthologies- There are two types of unpaid anthologies. One is for charity where most of the royalties go to a specific charity based upon the anthology. The other the royalties go to keep our doors open. In both types, the authors get an ebook copy of the book in their choice of format. Also, the authors can go through us and get copies of the book at author prices.

Our indie authors who publish a book through us receive 75% of the royalties. We offer Editing, Layout, Cover Design, and marketing for the 25% we receive. (Though if the author chooses to bring their work already edited or a bought cover we do not complain.) We do require that the author cover the cost of the initial proof copy to make sure that the book looks like the author wants it to look. Otherwise, that is the only cost requirement for publishing with us.

I hope that this answered any questions involved in our pay scale.

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