GREEN GECKO PUBLISHING

Please do not submit if you think GGP is beneath your talent, experience and/or publishing history. This results in messy stories and bruised toes.

And this is exactly why GGP has two classes of pay. Placing pay rate in the hands of writers discourages submissions that were dashed off and unedited. Or old, unedited submissions, or any combination thereof.

Because, if I like what you sent but it needs cleaning up, you might get a letter from me asking for edits and an offer of 1/4 per word.

Don't get offended by the edits.
Don't get offended by the lower pay rate.
And don't try to impress me with the quality and/or quantity of your publishing credits.

I can only judge what you send me, not what you send to others. Be grateful that I didn't send you a form rejection. Be grateful for the second chance. Be extra grateful that I refuse to publish it as-is. (Because, at the end of the day, that's your name on the story. While industry professionals might blame GGP for poor editing and revision, readers do not. They blame you.)  

I love second chances. That's why I don't send as many form letters as I should. That's also why, the slush pile can take a little longer.

Last but not least. For those of you who have sent me your best work.I've noticed the increase in cleaner prose and I regret every rejection. I can't publish your work if it's not right for the book. But there is one thing I can do. I can take notice of who has sent in a polished, clean, well written draft. I see your effort and care, and because of that, your chances next time around go up. Finally, if I notice, you can bet your bottom dollar other publications notice and appreciate you too.

Hello, this is the first GGP (Green Gecko Publishing) blog post. Well, actually, there are old, archived posts and blogger, but lets not talk about that, okay? (Because it's boring.)

So, as you can see the blog has slideshow which is kind of cool, but now I have to go make graphics that make more sense. That is on my list of things to do do.

Earlier this week, I almost had the sponsorship video completed with voice overs and all.. six hours of work was lost because I didn't back up. My computer didn't crash or anything. I hit a button which deleted all my work and saved the file. I spent the next hour cursing and then went to bed. I've worked on the project and it's coming along.

The Weird Tales book trailer is also stagnating because there's a ton of other stuff to do and I have to take redo the green army men photo shoot. Previously, I took 300 photos. I need closer to 900 and and I can't use most of what I already have because the photo timeline doesn't match the script timeline.