The process to submit work is a relatively simple one:
- Contact us with who you are & what you would like to add to our inventory.
- Add answers / details to the items listed below in your email.
- After that, you will hear back from us with answers to your questions and possibly asking some of our own.
- Then we will coordinate getting your work here.
Unfortunately, we will only be able to accept items on consignment. We know that this is not ideal and we wish the situation were otherwise. But Fleeting Pages is going to cost a fortune (for us, anyway) in rent and utilities. Not to mention everything else needed to fill the space and make it function. Our current budget just doesn’t have any room to pre-order. Hopefully that will change as we progress. Even if it doesn’t, we have plans for things like raffles, mixed bag books for sale, and an online store aspect in the works to make sure that as few books as possible will be returned. Another option is to send a couple copies and be open to re-ordering if needed.
Payment- Our intention is to send payments for books sold at the end of the first two weeks, and again at the beginning of June. All will be paid by June 15th. (well, if we exercise our two week extension, it will be June 30th) Should we need to order more copies, we will send a payment for those they are replacing.
Display- Fleeting Pages is not like a traditional fair – tables of presses with representatives manning them. We will be using bookshelves and tables as a bookstore would. Hopefully with some new ideas of what that could mean mixed in. If a representative is able to come out (which would be so great!), we’d rather have them running a workshop (or taking one), hosting an event, or helping out in the space than behind a table.
Online store- We hope to have an online store for Fleeting Pages as support for the project is coming from all over the map. The store will be open for the length of the project. After which, it will remain online, but the link to purchase will switch to the publisher or author website.
What we need and need to know:
- The titles, authors, and press
- Number of copies sending
- Is re-ordering an option.
- Maximum number of copies we will have access to through the month
- Cost structure- retail price and the cost for Fleeting Pages
- Permission to sell online?
- Category / Topic of the work
- An image of the cover
- A short blurb to help us promote the work
- Website link
- If a press/ publisher- short bio/blurb
- Contact information
- Payment information- who to make the check out to, where to send it…
- Will a representative be coming to Fleeting Pages?
- Any information you would like to share
That’s about it……
info@fleetingpages.com
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