Monday, April 19, 2010

For Our Western Writers

Over on SMFS, Sunny Fraiser, acquisitions editor for Oak Tree Press, posted the following call for Western novel submissions. And there's also some interest in new Romance writers. You can check out Oak Tree Press at the link at the bottom and if you'd like to submit, you can reach Sunny at sunny69(at)comcast.net or OakTreePub (at)aol.com.

Here's the call:

I pitched an idea to Billie Johnson, publisher at Oak Tree Press. Seems to me there is a readership for Westerns (I just watched "3:10 To Yuma") that has been ignored in recent times. "Deadwood," "Justified," is it just me or are we all looking for a little Zane Grey and early Elmore Leonard in our lives?

Anyway, since I'm doing acquisitions for the house, she's given me the green light to look for Westerns in all genres. That would include mystery, historical, romance, Y/A, even fantasy/sci-fi (think West World). We hope to start the line in 2011 and we'll be picking authors for it starting in Sept. She's also indicated that she'd like to strengthen the romance line.

For those of you who have read my past posts here, you already know I'm going to check marketing skills and Internet presence. I'm looking for good writing, great stories and strong marketing skills. Thought I'd start the search on this site.

Sunny Frazier
Oak Tree Press Acquisitions
http://www.sunnyfrazier.com/
http://www.oaktreebooks.com/

3 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

Excellent. Great timing. Gonna check this out more carefully.

sandra seamans said...

It's always best to check out a press before you submit, Charles, which you probably already know.

I don't know much about them except they're a small press and they've been around a few years.

Sunny Frazier said...

Sandra, thanks for posting our new imprint, which we are calling "Wild Oaks: Novels of the Wild West."
We are a small publishing house. Dissed on Preditors and Editors by an unhappy client of past years, we strive ahead anyway. Last year OTP published 11 new titles; this year we're going for 24 and plan on 36 in 2011. Authors work together as a unit, or as I like to say, a family. We tend to meet at the Public Safety Writers conference in Vegas in June because publisher Billie Johnson is very supportive of material by law enforcement types (I'm former Sheriff's Dept narc secretary).
We look for genre fiction around 65,000 wds. No advances yet, NOT self-pub, POD technology as with most small presses. We're looking for people with marketing know-how and active profiles on Internet sites.
If interested, your readers can see who we are and what we do by looking at You Tube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAyY4hHjYlA&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MV5pMW6wGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6QJXq56C4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7pL0NW5gIM&feature=related