The Great Lakes Book Project is looking for submissions from anyone who has a story to tell. It can be happy, it can be sad, it can be a memory that you’re worried will fade away if it’s not passed on; whatever it is, we are eager to help you share it with the world. Please e-mail (as attachments) finished and editited creative non-fiction about The Great Lakes Region (500-5000 words) to Blake@TheGreatLakesBookProject.com. The deadline for submissions is August 15th and, in addition to being printed at a regional press and sold in local book stores, a portion of the proceeds will go towards the preserving the Great Lakes.
If what you’ve written is chosen to be published, you will recieve your own copy of the book, estimated to be finished by early December 2012.
What a terrific project. Do you have a submission deadline?
yes- the deadline is August 15th, 2012.
Any pay for submissions??
If your submission is chosen to be in the book a copy of the publication is the compensation offered.
Are there more substantial guidelines, rights being offered, editing clauses? Sample contract, perhaps?
There is not a sample contract out yet, but every author will retain reprint rights and, as mentioned before, any second print will be renegotiated so that the authors are given monetary compensation for their work. Also, I strongly respect the authors creative control and any editing (in regards to content) will be a mutual work between the author and I. This will happen before the work is accepted into the project. I have worked with editors whom have accepted a submission and then changed important details of the work and understand how violated one can feel and The Great Lakes Book Project will do all that is possible to avoid that.
This sounds like a fantastic project.
But… stupid question: people usually think of the American side of the Great Lakes when talking about that region – does this mean those of us with stories from up north are left out?
I hope I did not make any implication of the sort- I strongly encourage and and everyone whom has a connection to the lakes to submit!
Will you accept photo articles?
unfortunately, this first edition will only be text.