Drollerie Press http://drolleriepress.com Slip into story... Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:37:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Chat Tonight! http://drolleriepress.com/events/chat-tonight-4/ http://drolleriepress.com/events/chat-tonight-4/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:33:02 +0000 Deena http://drolleriepress.com/?p=3680 Come talk with the Drollerie Press editors and authors “on the howl” as we talk about our books, what makes them special, what we’re looking for, and who we love. Tonight at 9PM Eastern.

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“Ms Santiago’s characters are strong, well-defined and determined to do the right thing. They have conflicts, there is jealousy, there is hate, and there is love. [...] The ending in this one will leave you yearning for the next book.”

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“The secondary characters were rich and varied, with some wonderful bit parts you can truly grow fond of. Some of them I wanted to see more, as the story hints at incredible depth. This is one of Sorrow’s strongest points. [...] there’s plenty of intrigue and action to be had.”

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]]> http://drolleriepress.com/administrivia/uk-authors/feed/ 0 Frustration… http://drolleriepress.com/administrivia/frustration/ http://drolleriepress.com/administrivia/frustration/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:46:17 +0000 Deena http://drolleriepress.com/?p=3665 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.

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“A very beautiful and interesting Young Adult story about finding your place in life. [...] I could have read much, much more about Mary and the history of her people.”

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“There are many layers in the short span of this novella that are woven into the storyline and world building expertly by Ms. Santiago.”

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“Ivan and Marya is tightly, beautifully written, in such a way that it reads like a fairytale. [...] I couldn’t put it down”

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We only publish works that contain some extra-normal, magical, surreal, or super-natural quality. Please do not submit general audience fiction, non-fiction, or memoirs. Your submission will be deleted unread.

Please check out the guidelines on the submissions page and then send us your very best work. We can’t wait to read it!

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