Interview with Founder and CEO of Solstice Publishing

 

Solstice Publishing

www.Solsticepublishing.com

Corporate Office:

P.O. Box 1771, Andrews, Tx 79714

Melissa Miller (CEO) works from Missouri

Michelle Zieman (Marketing Director) works from Iowa

What do you say about the negative comments that Solstice Publishing is some kind of book mill that gives anyone a contract?

I would say that there isn’t anything I can do about bad things said about Solstice Publishing by negative people. What I can say are the facts. Solstice Publishing was created the beginning of 2010. After 15 years, Solstice currently only has 138 authors. To take that fact a step further; out of those 138 authors 40 of them only have 1 book each. That doesn’t really sound like a book mill to me. I know for a fact, because I read the submissions, that Solstice rejects more submissions than are accepted.

Does Solstice Publishing do any marketing for the authors?

Yes, we do. However, we do no work as a personal daily publicist for an author. We teach our authors how to market and give them the tools they need to help brand their names as authors. We make trailers for books, do author interviews, blog posts, newsletters, press releases, and much more. We just can’t do it all for them. Authors have to put in a lot of time and work into being an author.

What advice would you give to new authors?

I would say that the competition is fierce. Don’t expect to do nothing at all and have the sales come pouring in.  As an author you have to be willing to put in the time and work it takes to be an author.

How do you respond to people that say and post online negative untrue things about Solstice?

Nothing at all. There is no reason to give that person any attention for their behavior. I would rather focus my time and energy working with authors who want to be authors not help spread lies about a company that I am proud of.

Visit www.solsticepublishing.com to read the submission guidelines before submitting.

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Guest Blogger: Michelle L Crocker

 Check out Michelle L Crocker's new book!

Available on Amazon here

“Every girl has ‘that guy’ she dated. Or, let’s be honest, several of them. The ones your friends warned you about. The ones who drained your bank account, your patience, and your Wi-Fi. The ones who left you eating pizza on your best friend’s couch, red wine in hand, questioning every life choice.

This is not a romance novel. This is not a guide to finding Mr. Right. This is a field guide to spotting the red flags, laughing at the disasters, and reminding yourself that you’re not alone in your poor dating résumé.

Welcome to Emmy’s Museum of Red Flags. Each chapter is an exhibit featuring a different type of asshole she unfortunately dated so you don’t have to.

Grab a glass of wine, pull up a chair, and prepare to laugh at the wreckage. Because if you can’t laugh at your dating history… you’ll probably cry.”

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Guest Blogger: Ottessa Moshfegh

 Welcome Ottessa Moshfegh to our blog today!

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World; a novella, McGlue; and the forthcoming novel Lapvona. She lives in Southern California.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel - Kindle edition by Moshfegh, Ottessa. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes
 
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
 
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

Find Otessa Moshfegh's books here

The Smallest Little Things Can Make A Child Smile

 One day our 6-year-old granddaughter wanted to find a treasure in the yard. I walked around with her for a few minutes quickly realizing that we weren't going to find a treasure. I said hold on just a minute. I need to use the bathroom. I'm going to run inside for a minute. You stay here with everyone else and I'll be right back.

I ran inside and found a couple of treasures lol. I went back outside and when she wasn't looking, I tossed the treasures down to the ground.

As we walked around looking for treasures, I said we already looked here so why don't you go over there, and I'll look over here. She hurried over to where I pointed, and she found a treasure lol. She was so excited. "Grandma. Grandma. I found a treasure." She had to show me, her mom and dad, grandpa. She was so excited.

It doesn't take a lot to make a child smile and happy. It just takes a couple of minutes and a little treasure from time to time.

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