**eagerly anticipates the Lost Violet site**

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It will mean a lot of work will have been done, and more work will be able to have begun, and I will be glad of that too

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_{Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose...}

her wings are not broken, only icarus-singed...

ohhhh publishing company, interesting... : O

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Yes, it's something I've wanted to do always, since the first edition of Trapdoor actually, but back then I was dumb enough to talk myself into thinking I didn't need it. One day I plan to commission an anthology, but for now it's just for me, Trapdoor, and the-next-novel-that-will-not-be-named

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_{Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose...}

her wings are not broken, only icarus-singed...

I'm curious, what goes into creating a publishing company?

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Okay, prepare for a long answer. Apologies in advance

Well, in my country it's basically registering a business name, first off. In yours, I think you can create an LLC (company.) This entitles you to get a bank account in that name, do business under that name, and (for .com.au domain names) get a domain name. So I'm officially registered as Lost Violet Press Then there's buying ISBNs, which in America is hideously expensive, in Canada is free (lucky bastards ) and in Australia is something you have to pay for but isn't expensive like in the US. The important thing is to get at least a block of 10, rather than just 1, because it's more affordable that way, and more experienced eyes can tell you're just a fly-by-nighter if you only get 1 (or so I'm told.) And then there's printing and distribution, and getting listed in ordering systems like Books In Print etc. As far as America/Europe is concerned, I'll be using a company called Lightning Source Inc which is a division of Ingram, the biggest distributor in the States. They do print on demand, which means someone orders your book (from Amazon (globally, not just the .com one), or directly via a bookstore) and the order is triggered at LSI or Ingram, who then print a copy and ship it to the customer. It's better to do it this way rather than print a thousand + at once, because you don't have inventory sitting around (books can get damaged in long term storage, and I believe at least in some states of America you get charged taxes for warehousing as well.) However, printing/distribution in this country will be done via another company because the costs of shipping to Australia from the US using this method just aren't feasible. But the actual process will be the same. Then, of course, there's the stuff like editing, typesetting and cover design, marketing and promo stuff. Luckily my life itself has let me have experience in all of these things. I didn't organise typesetting/printing for Trapdoor the first time around, and at the time there wasn't any "easy" way onto Amazon, which are both things I've always regretted. And yet not, in a way, because Trapdoor is going to be so much stronger and better this time around. I'm also thinking of doing an e-Book release of it too.

Yeah, probably tl;dr. Sorry again

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_{Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose...}

her wings are not broken, only icarus-singed...

No apologies necessary! Thanks for the very informative answer, it was very interesting.

And now I know. And knowing is half the battl... ^__^d

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