PUBLISHING BOOKS BY SERIOUS WRITERS

Just My Best Book Publishing Company has been in business in Ohio since January 1, 2001. We are independent publishers who accept manuscripts of both fiction and nonfiction via email submissions. Writers do not need agents since JMBPUB works directly with authors, many of which are being published for the first time. We pride ourselves on publishing quality reading materials by serious writers. We expect your best, and are not interested in seeing poorly formatted manuscripts. If you want us to read your material edit it twice and run the spelling check in your word program before you submit it. The surest way to get a rejection slip from any publisher is to present yourself as a lackluster, lazy writer, who pens the story and submits it, expecting the editor to clean it up. Our editors do not ghost write, format, or restructure your material. In order to be a good writer you must first be a serious editor.

PUBLISHING PACKAGES

We offer multiple publishing packages including standard publishing, print-on-demand publishing, and e book publishing. Our publishing formats are hardback, paperback, casebound, and e-books. We distribute our inventory both in the United States and foreign countries through professional distributing companies.

PUBLISHER ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS

We are currently soliciting manuscripts with a positive, up building message. Although the hero must have his/her share of obstacles to overcome, he/she should do it gallantly. We are particularly interested in non-fiction publishing this year, such as cookbook publishing, how-to publishing, and motivational. We like to think of ourselves as an all around publisher since we are a cookbook publisher, a children publisher, and a publisher who is always on the lookout for new concepts. Chances are good that a new author can get published here.

BOOK PUBLISHING

We are a small publishing company who will publish 6-10 titles in 2005. We read a lot of wonderful novels throughout the year and would love to see them in print. But we are limited as to the number of new authors we can support properly.

PUBLISHING TALENTED AUTHORS

If you want to break into print with Just My Best, Book Publishing Company present us with a manuscript that is clean, well edited, and formatted correctly. Two full edits must have been done by you, the author, before you submit it. These edits must be completed before submission.

This book publisher has no advertising allowance, and must rely on Authors to promote their own books. Therefore, authors should create a marketing plan, a media package, and be prepared to purchase an initial quantity of books for promotion purposes.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, GET PUBLISHED

Copyright © 2005
By Janet Sue Terry

A friend once told me: "An education can't make you a writer. You have to be born that way. " I thought it a strange remark coming from a woman with a college degree in journalism. However, when it comes to creative writing her statement is true. Education fine tunes your skills, but can't give you the imagination to make up great stories.

If you can't spell, put paragraphs together, and don't know a comma from a hyphen, hire a professional editor, ghostwriter, friend, or teacher to edit your work. Have someone polish your manuscript until it is clean, crisp, and reads easily. Make yours the best it can be. Most of the writers we deal with lack confidence. To those precious, creative souls we offer a word of encouragement: "Believe in yourself."

Famous Quotes:

"The man who has no imagination has no wings." Muhammad Ali

"Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to 'dream dreams and see visions . . . " .'Rollo May (1909-1994) US psychoanalyst

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it." William Faulkner

THANK GOD FOR DIFFERENCES

Copyright @ 2005
By Janet Sue Terry

Opinions on publishing, writing, technique, structure, etc. abounds. Most writers believe their way is the right way. Most are wrong. For every opinion on the subject of writing, there are many differing views. For instance, form fiction requires writer's guidelines from the publisher on how to write the novel. Many people succeed at writing form fiction. They find something that works for them and the format is copied repeatedly with different characters, settings, and circumstances. Few find fame while working as form-based writers.

Some authors are strange, reclusive and independent. Editors moan when they submit their work. Publishers hesitate to take a chance on them. Their writing is considered too different to be acceptable. Many of these (shunned) authors eventually become rich and famous. Why? The public is always looking for something different. Many new writers imitate famous authors in their literary efforts. When a great book comes out, the public takes note, and there are multiple copycat books not too far behind.
Examples of unique authors would be:

• Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, who penned one novel in her career. This book became an instant success. Afterward, she did not have time to write the second book because she was busy answering fan mail.
  
• Stephen King received so many rejection slips that he hammered a large nail on the wall and stuck rejection slips on it. Who could argue that his writing was completely different than anything that had come before? No doubt, at times he felt depressed and hopeless about his future as a writer. One editor told him that he would never succeed. The editor was obviously a fool.
  
• J.R.R. Tolkien created an entire world in Lord of the Rings. He took a different route than other authors of his day. He created entire civilizations, languages, and customs. When chided by his friends and family for his complicated storyline, he stated that he wrote his stories to please himself. He would have been a flop at writing form fiction. Today his family must to be happy that he did it his way.
  
• J.K. Rowling, Author of the Harry Potter series seemed to spring up over night. However, she had several novels written by the time most of us heard of her. Readers are still buzzing about Harry Potter and the amazing world that Rowling created.
  

What did these authors have in common? Their novels were unique. Not copies of someone else's work. Their manuscripts did not follow a set of writer's guidelines. These men and women had imagination, and in my humble opinion that is the most precious gift of all. Without it, we will never write a great novel. It would be impossible for us to do so.

The moral of this article is to be proud of your differences. Follow your visions, write them down, create worlds, cultures, and let your story flow. Do it your way. Write about the fantasies that are playing out in your head.

What wonderful stories are yet to be told? Hopefully you will show us.
Thank God For Differences. Amen!

INTERESTING TO KNOW

Famous Authors Who Dropped Out Of School And Used Their Imagination And Life Experiences To Pen Wonderful Works Of Literature

• William Saroyan: Oscar-winning screenwriter; Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright
• Carl Sandburg: Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (little formal education; later passed entrance exam to Lombard College and graduated)
  
• Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"): Best-selling American author and humorist (elementary school dropout)
• Charles Dickens: Best-selling British author (elementary school dropout)
• Benjamin Franklin: American politician - diplomat - author - printer - publisher-scientist - inventor; co-author and co-signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; one of the founders of The United States of America; face is pictured on the U.S. one-hundred dollar bill (little formal education [less than two years]; home schooling/life experience)
• George Gershwin: Oscar-nominated and most celebrated American songwriter-and classical composer; Congressional Gold Medal recipient.
• William Shakespeare: British playwright; best-selling British author
• George Bernard Shaw: Nobel Prize-winning Irish-born British playwright; best-selling author
  
• William Faulkner: Nobel Prize-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author; screenwriter (dropped out of high school in second year; later attended University of Mississippi but did not graduate)
  
• Herman Melville: Best-selling American author and writer of Moby Dick, arguably the greatest novel of all time.
  
• Florence Nightingale: History's most notable nurse; best-selling Italian-born British nursing book author (no formal education; home schooling/life experience)
• Thomas Paine: American Revolutionary War era political theorist; best-selling British-born American author; famous quote: "These are the times that try men's souls." (little formal education; home schooling/life experience)
  
• Will Rogers: American author-humorist-lecturer-actor-entertainer; famous quote: "I never met a man I didn't like."
• Walt Whitman: Best-selling American poet (elementary school dropout)
  
• Irving Berlin: Oscar-winning American songwriter-composer; film story writer; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Congressional Gold Medal recipient