[Pub svcs] Corona Books UK

[Earthling]

I couldn't find a thread on these: http://www.coronabooks.com/

From the submissions page:

It's also worth injecting a serious note of realism here. We are a very small company with our resources more or less fully committed to the first few titles we intend to publish. It is a possibility we may wish to take you on in the traditional manner of a publisher, but we are also looking for authors who would be willing to work with us as partners, sharing the risk and investment in their book project. However, just as we are not traditional publishers, we are not self-publishers either. To work with you we need to be convinced your project has the potential to result in a brilliant book. We're only ever going to publish books we think are brilliant. We have our reputations to consider.

In other words... a vanity publisher trying to dress it up as something else with weasel wording.

 

[Gillhoughly]

If your book is brilliant, you don't waste it on a vanity. When the writer is paying them money, of course that book is going to be "brilliant."

 

[Spy_on_the_Inside]

It looks like Corona is stemming into the anthology business. They are currently collecting stories for their third horror collection. It sounds like they asked writers to pay a fee for novels in the past, but does anyone have experience submitting to their short story collections?