Carnation Books

[osprey_archer]

Does anyone have any experience with Carnation Books? They're an online publisher that works with fandom authors and I've been thinking about maybe submitting something to them - possibly Ashlin & Olivia (there's a scene where Ashlin calls Renaissance art "Bible fanart" and I feel this ought to endear the book to any publisher involved in fandom).

Or if I can't bear to let go of that much editorial control and/or to wait that long to get Ashlin & Olivia out there (I really ought to have published something to follow up Briarley sooner and I know it), I might write something shorter particularly to submit to them. In their 2019 call for submissions they ask for stories in the 5,000-20,000 range.

And if I write something and they don't take it then of course I can just publish it myself.

I'm kind of leaning toward door number 2. But I thought I would ask to make sure that no one has heard horror stories about Carnation Books or anything like that before I started down that route.

Comments

[staranise]

I know a people who have published through of them, and heard no horror stories. For what it's worth.

[thisbluespirit]

The second option sounds reasonable! Even if they did turn out to be a bad option, having only given them something short would provide the answer to that without too much being lost. (Although no reason to suppose they are!)

[osprey_archer]

Yes, it's putting a toe in to test the waters, as it were. And it's occurred to me that I have a partial novella that really wasn't working as a novella, but might work really well as a short story... so I could have something ready to offer without too much more work.

[osprey_archer]

That's good to hear! I think really the only way people find out about these things is word of mouth.