Paper Bag Press

Just bumping up this thread to let you all know that Paper Bag Press is launching today!

www.paper-bag-press.com

Happy Valentine's Day!

Amy

Your site takes an ungodly long time to load. Very poor form. You have 8 seconds to capture a visitor's attention with your website as it is. That slow load time is going to cost you visitors.

M.R.J. Le Blanc said:

Your site takes an ungodly long time to load. Very poor form. You have 8 seconds to capture a visitor's attention with your website as it is. That slow load time is going to cost you visitors.

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It loaded within 2-3 seconds on my end. Maybe your connection was running a bit slow?

It was very slow-loading for me as well, on different days and different times.

I have a question-the brown paper bag look is cute, but is it for shorter length books only?

I hope so. Covers really do help sell.

I read the submission guidelines and they said this press is for short stories only.

What I like:

-The "naughty books sneaked home in a wrinkled paper bag" motif for the covers, with the crooked Royal typewriter font. Simple, but oddly sophisticated and chic.

-The submission portal, which saves on having to come up with something clever to say in a cover letter.

What I don't like:

-The $2.49 price tag for a 1300-word story that has a word missing in the blurb. There are quite a few typos in the blurbs and excerpts, and the prices are a bit steep in comparison to other, more established epublishers.

-"Anal" is a sexual activity, not a genre.