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Important Announcement

Selena — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:41:17 +0000

Due to ongoing health and family issues, Deena Fisher, Drollerie Press’ Editor in Chief, will be taking a leave of absence.

Books under contract are, as a result, delayed, but will be released as quickly as possible.

Submissions will be closed for a short time as our editing team work to efficiently distribute the project list. We will post an announcement as soon as submissions reopen.

If you have questions regarding any correspondence or business with her, please contact Selena Green at selena@drolleriepress.com or Joselle Vanderhooft at joselle@drollerie.com

Website Updates

Deena — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:22:41 +0000

We’ll be making some changes to our website and changing mail servers, so please be patient if you do not hear from us for the next 24 hours. Thank you for your patience!

Submissions Address Change

Deena — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:17:54 +0000

To submit to Flyleaf Press, our GLBTQ imprint, please email your submission packet to editors@flyleafpress.com.

To submit to Kettlestitch, our YA imprint, please email your submission packet to editors@kettlestitchpress.com.

UK Authors

Deena — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:40:00 +0000

Heather Parker, author of Middlewitch (and with a new story about the hapless Alicia Meldrew in the works), found a very nice resource for those of you in the UK who need to obtain an ITIN: an article on the Andrew Lownie website. If you’re frustrated and confused, take a look here.

Frustration…

Deena — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:46:17 +0000

I’m a little lost in the thicket of tax requirements. The IRS requires that we report every royalty payment of $10.00 or more in a tax year, including payments to authors living outside the US, regardless of treaty status.

Spreading the fun around, all of those non-US authors are required to have a US individual tax identification number (ITIN), again, regardless of treaty status, reported on the W-8BEN. To get an ITIN, you can send off your original passport by itself or multiple other original forms of identification together. Don’t want to send off the originals and wait to get them back, assuming you do get them back? You can go to the US Embassy in your country and they’ll certify your copies (which the IRS puts in quotes. Are they ironic copies?). They don’t say how much that costs. OR, if you can’t go to the embassy, you can go to a proper authority as approved by The Hague Convention, which will give you an “apostille”–in Ireland it only costs €20.

All that to legally accept a payment of $10.00.

If anyone has information on how to more easily acquire an ITIN, we’d love to hear about it.

Technical Difficulties

Deena — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:54:34 +0000

We’ve been experiencing high temperatures at our main office that have triggered brown outs and blackouts city wide. As a result, work has creaked to a near stop, with long periods of no Internet access and difficulties with the telephone. … Continue reading →

DP Status

Deena — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:41:21 +0000

Unfortunately, we’ve discovered (after already spending money on it, and isn’t that always the way?) that the main computer isn’t worth salvaging. We’ve recovered all the data except email, and are hoping to be able to restore that, as well.

Please continue to be patient. We have the backup computer up and running with more memory and redundant backups, and all necessary software reinstalled. Now it’s just a question of getting everything back–the bookmarks, email accounts, files in the right places, and so on. We expect to be back to functional on Monday, June 14th.

If you’re expecting a response from us for something you’ve sent us, please give us until the 16th to review the files we’ve been able to recover and get back on track. Responses to the Ghost and Greek anthos should be out the end of this month, with our, again, sincere apologies.

Stick with us, please. Great things are coming.

And so it goes…

Deena — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:46:03 +0000

CoyoteCon is over for 2010. If you didn’t get to join us, I hope you’ll consider joining us next year. I think I can safely say it was a huge success, with sessions on everything from accurate research to “Writing to Scare the Reader”.

The main computer is still dead. What ought to have been a simple power supply change seems to have become a dead motherboard, and the backup drive still isn’t talking to the backup computer, but we expect to have it working this coming week, and then we’ll hit the ground running.

We have great releases coming up (a variety that should make just about any reader happy, and just in time for summer)! Keep an eye on out for them. We’ll get them out just as soon as we get our computer woes sorted.

Don’t forget! Monday is the last day for the Brenda Novak Auction in support of Juvenile Diabetes Research. We’ve donated a lot, and we’re sure you’ll find plenty of other donations there that will catch your eye.

Computer Woes

Deena — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:43:03 +0000

Our main computer is dead, and we’re not sure how long it will take to resuscitate it. It should have been yesterday, but it’s still not working. All is not lost, we’ve been using regular backups since the last time this happened. Unfortunately, the backup computer refuses to recognize the backup drive.

As a result, responses to anthology submissions are further delayed, as is response to some emails.

We will have this issue resolved soon. Please be patient. In the meantime, if you have questions or issues that can’t wait, email drollerie.press@gmail.com.

Cleaning Up the Dust, Knocking Down the Cobwebs

Deena — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:31:44 +0000

We’ve been tidying up around here a bit, so hopefully you’ll be able to find things easier. We separated the authors by alpha sort order so they’d be easier to find, and gave the anthologies their own page. We also added the ability to log in to the blog using your OpenID, Google, Yahoo, LiveJournal, Facebook, or Twitter account to make it easier to log in and comment or download a freebie (read an e-book week is coming!).

PenFlourish, our romance, erotica, and women’s fiction imprint is looking lovely as well, with a spiffy new color palette, and more posts from more authors. Be sure to swing by there and check it out when you have time, but remember that you have to register for the site (separate from this one) to read the posts since many of them are of an adult nature.

The other imprints will be polished up a little more soon, new books are on the horizon, and we’ll be chatting on Sunday the 31st, so be sure to come visit us then.