ENC Press

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ENC Press
Industry Publishing house
Founded 2003
Founder(s) Olga Gardner Galvin
Headquarters Hoboken, New Jersey
Products Novels
Website http://www.encpress.com/

ENC Press (Emperor's New Clothes Press) is a small, independent publishing house founded in 2003, in Hoboken, New Jersey, by New York editor and writer Olga Gardner Galvin. It exclusively publishes full-length novels.

Business model

ENC Press's business model involves distributing its titles through its website and independent bookstores.[1] It forgoes dealing with major chains or online distributors in favor of paying its authors higher royalties.[2] Its stated goal is to keep its titles in print regardless of their performance in the marketplace.[3][4] The company's motto is "Tipping sacred cows since 2003".[5]

Publishing history

ENC Press launched in July 2003 with four titles: the classic dystopia We, by Yevgheniy Zamyatin,[6] new "XXI-century literary translation"[7] by Linda S. Farne; Vodka for Breakfast, a literary novel by David Gurevich; Don't Call It "Virtual", a futuristic satirical utopia by Beth Elliott; and The Alphabet Challenge, a futuristic social satire by Olga Gardner Galvin. It was followed in 2003 by Diary of a XX-century Elizabethan Poet, a comedy of mores by Mark Mandell, illustrated by Katrina Hinton-Cooper.

In 2004, ENC Press published two geopolitical novels: Season of Ash by Justin Bryant, set in South Africa, and Exit Only by Liam Bracken, set in Saudi Arabia. It also published a satire Devil Jazz, by Canadian author Craig Forgrave, as well as two British humor novels: Moon Beaver, by Andrew Hook,[8] and Terror from Beyond Middle England, by Sarah Crabtree. Later that year, the literary novel Cherry Whip, by Michael Antman, came out.

In 2005, ENC Press added to its catalogue the futuristic sci-fi novel The Amadeus Net, by Canadian author Mark A. Rayner, and three social satires: Mother's Milk by Andrew Thomas Breslin, ExecTV by David A. Brensilver, and Junk, by Christopher Largen.[9]

In 2007, two more social satires joined its roster: Mean Martin Manning by Scott Stein and $everance by Richard Kaempfer.

Monkey See, a social satire by Walt Maguire, was released in June 2009, followed by Dear Mr. Unabomber, an epistolary satirical novel written and illustrated by Ray Cavanaugh, in September 2009.

The June 2012 release, Escape Clause by Jeffrey R. DeRego, is a graphic novel in prose that portrays a behind-the-scenes world of rules and regulations constraining the powers of superheroes.

Its latest release, Half by Doug Reed (Halloween 2013), parodies the popular genre of vampire fiction while exploring the downsides of immortality spent in mind-numbingly boring corporate job provided by the federal vampire protection program.

Much of ENC Press's satire stems from libertarian themes of individuals battling oppressive big business or the extremes of political correctness. For example, the ENC Press catalogue describes Olga Gardner Galvin's The Alphabet Challenge as a story that involves a bureaucracy "whose members work their fingers to the bone to make caring, compassion, and lowest-common-denominator equality a federal law." Stephen Cox, editor of Liberty magazine writes of Mean Martin Manning: "There are few really good hardcore libertarian novels. This is one of them." Andrew Thomas Breslin's Mother's Milk pokes fun at "radical nutrition advocates"; and in Junk by Christopher Largen, the government has outlawed junk food in order to protect (and control) its citizenry.[10][11]

ENC Press is a member of the New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP). Its titles have been reviewed in Fox News,[12]Time Out Chicago,[13] Chicago Sun-Times, Liberty magazine,[14] The American Spectator,[15] and Reason[16] magazine, among other print and online venues.

Until further notice, ENC Press does not review unsolicited submissions but offers consulting services to aspiring self-publishers.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Galvin, Olga Gardner. "A Few Lessons Learned from Publishing in America". ENC Press. Retrieved 2009-01-18. 
  2. ↑ "About ENC". ENC Press. Retrieved 2009-01-07. 
  3. ↑ Kudera, Alex (2009-06-22). "Interview with Olga Gardner Galvin". Retrieved 2009-06-30. 
  4. ↑ Galvin, Olga Gardner (2005-09-26) (podcast). Interview with Olga Gardner Galvin, founder and publisher, ENC Press. Interview with Paula B.. The Writing Show. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. http://www.webcitation.org/5df26qcEm. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
  5. ↑ "Boutique Fiction House ENC Press Making International Waves, Profits". ENC Press. 2005-04-21. Retrieved 2009-01-10. 
  6. ↑ Anderson, Brian C. (2005). South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. p. 130. ISBN 0-89526-019-0. 
  7. ↑ "WE". ENC Press. Retrieved 2009-01-20. 
  8. ↑ Hook, Andrew (2006). Residue. Halfcut Publications. p. 133. ISBN 0-9549535-1-7. 
  9. ↑ Largen, Christopher (09-06-2005) (podcast). Writing Satire, with Christopher Largen. Interview with Paula B.. The Writing Show. http://www.writingshow.com/articles/transcripts/2005/09062005.html. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
  10. ↑ ENC Press Catalogue. http://www.encpress.com/catalogue.html Retrieved 2010-06-11.
  11. ↑ Reason.tv interview with Olga Gardner Galvin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DguMDXgHpI Retrieved 2012-08-21.
  12. ↑ "New Publisher Steers Fiction Right". Fox News. 2004-04-20. Archived from the original on 2011-12-02. Retrieved 2011-12-02. 
  13. ↑ Messinger, Jonathan (2005-07-21). "Whip smart". Time Out. Retrieved 2009-01-07. 
  14. ↑ "The Books of Summer". Liberty. July 2007. Archived from the original on 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2009-01-07. 
  15. ↑ Macomber, Shawn (2008-07-28). "Little Tyrants Everywhere". The American Spectator. Retrieved 2009-01-07. 
  16. ↑ Sullum, Jacob (November 2007). "The Man Who Wanted to Be Left Alone". 2007-11 (Reason). Retrieved 2009-01-07. 
  17. ↑ ENC Press company page. http://www.linkedin.com/company/enc-press Retrieved 2014-01-23.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.