Small Press Title Enrollment

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Please use this form to add a new title (either a book or a literary journal) to our catalog. This form may only be used by enrolled small presses. See our Small Press Distribution page for additional information.

First, we'll review the process. Then we'll ask about you. Then we'll ask about the book or literary journal. This title-enrollment form presupposes that you've already been registered as a participating small press with us. If you haven't yet completed this step, visit our Small Press Distribution page for additional information.

Process Steps

1. Pay the fee. We assess a $25 setup fee, which covers initial metadata assignment. I paid online.I will send a check or money order with my shipment. If you paid online, please indicate your order ID number:
2. Complete this form online. We ask you to complete one individual form for every catalog item, because our back-end review process requires full applications — even if you've already sent work to us before. You are welcome to ship several different products in the same package, however.
3. Send physical copies to us at: Lakeshore Literary Inc., 1590 44th St SW, Wyoming MI 49509 USA. Please do not send the shipment in a manner that requires us to sign for it; we're not in the office when the drivers complete their appointed rounds. It's okay to send the shipment (and, if necessary, your check or money order for the evaluation fee) without a copy of this enrollment form; we'll match your electronic application to the products as they arrive.

Publisher & Shipment Identification

Please let us know when to expect the shipment. The planned date/carrier/quantity/tracking-ID fields are optional; share them if you know them. You are welcome to prepare us for pre-order titles using this form. Specific release information about the book appears in the ABOUT THE BOOK section, below.

Publisher Name: *
Publisher Account Number (if known):
Name of Person Completing the Form: *
Email of Person Completing the Form: *
Planned Shipment Date:
Planned Shipment Carrier: US Postal ServiceUPSFedExDHLPersonal DeliveryOtherTBD
Shipment Tracking Number (if known):
Planned Shipment Item Quantity:

Author Information

This section gathers information about the author, or the primary author/editor of a multi-author work. We understand that some small presses may not have all of this information. We believe this data is useful to bookstore owners, to support specialty orders and to facilitate in-person signing/reading events. Please make every effort to complete as much of this information as you can. We will supply author contact information directly to bookstores, upon inquiry from a participating bookseller. If you're submitting a literary journal, use the contact information (skip demographics) for the editorial leader of the journal best equipped to field inquiries from bookstore owners.

Author or Journal Editor Name: *
Author's Email Address:
Author's Telephone:
Author's (or Lit Journal's) Website:
Please list the first three digits of the U.S. ZIP Code that the author or the lit journal considers as home territory: *
Please select any of the following demographics about the book's author (not for a lit-journal editor). We share this information with book buyers, to help plan for seasonal/themed content or to facilitate invitations for in-store readings/signings. Debut Creator (first-time book)Differently Abled CreatorESL Creator (English is not the creator's primary language)Faith-Based CreatorFemale CreatorLGBTQI CreatorMale CreatorBIPOC CreatorVeteran CreatorWell-Known Creator (public figure, established/award-winning writer)Young Creator (child, teen)Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Creator (please explain in the Comments box)Under-Represented in Genre (please explain in the Comments box)
Author Biography:
Comments:

Now we explore some attributes of the book or the literary journal. All wholesale buyers automatically enjoy 55 percent off the full retail price. That percentage does not change. However, if you wish to set a lower base price for libraries, schools, or book clubs, put that recommended base price in the relevant boxes. If you do not supply numbers, then these other groups do not receive a different price from wholesale bookstore buyers. For example, if you price a book at $14.95, a retail customer will pay $14.95 and a wholesale buyer would pay $7.18. If for that same book you set a special base library price of $12.95, then the library will pay $5.83 but other wholesalers would pay $7.18 and full retail remains $14.95. Be aware that deep discounts may result in negative revenue.

About the Book

Full Title of the Book, or Name Plus Title/Volume/Issue of the Literary Journal: *
Additional Authors/Contributors:
Current Distributors (who else sells the product on your behalf?):
ISBN:
UPC:
Recommended Base Price (full retail): *
Recommended Base Price (libraries):
Recommended Base Price (schools):
Recommended Base Price (book clubs):
Catalog Status: *
Release Date (it's okay to default to the first day of the month): *
Page Count: *
Book Height (inches): *
Book Width (inches): *
Book Weight (ounces): *
How is this book organized? It's one continuous narrative.It's a collection of smaller works by the same author.It's a collection of smaller works by different authors.
What's the book's word-count grouping? ChapbookNovella, Essay or Full Poetry BookShort Book (30k-60k words)Standard Book (60k-90k words)Long Book (90k-150k words)Epic Book (150k+ words)
What languages are in the book for at least 10 percent of its length? (We assume English if blank)
What's the target audience of this book? ChildrenMiddle-GradeYoung AdultAdult (General Audience)Adult (Technical Audience)
Cover Attributes: HardcoverSoftcoverNon-Standard Cover
Interior Attributes: B&W Text OnlyColor Art or PhotosInserts Not Bound to SpineNon-Standard Interior
Does the book include any outer packaging, like shrink wrap? YesNo
What's the book's primary genre? If you think it's a blend, use "fusion." If you think that none of these categories clearly applies, select UNCLASSIFIED from the bottom of the list and share your thoughts about the genre in the Comments box. Although you'll see one list, we sort it alphabetically by grouping and major genre families. In the list, FIC = fiction, LJ = literary journal content focus, NF = non-fiction, POETRY = poetry and VISUAL = visual arts. *
Please share the back-of-the-cover marketing text for this book or literary journal. This text must be clean, with no embedded line breaks. Separate paragraphs with blank lines and render italics with asterisks. We recommend pasting your text in a Word document, then using the Word-to-Markdown Converter. Paste the output of the converter into this box. It might look funny, with asterisks and pound signs, but this text is what we need to proceed. *
Offer any additional comments you think are worth sharing about the book.
Please include a high-resolution image of the cover. The file must be in the PNG/JPG/GIF formats only. It should be a high-resolution image no less than 600 pixels square. It must include the full cover, and be a square image -- if necessary, edit the image to include a white background. *

An asterisk denotes a required field.

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