I've been thinking for two weeks now, that I ought to take a second run at getting some non-fiction stories for Passion for Ghosts. I knew shortly after, how I would go about it and that I'd want to notify the current GGP authors.

I had just one problem: an incomplete contact list. Well, this has been a big problem actually as I needed it for other things (like payments and, the very technical "other stuff.")

However, the way I was going about building the contact list-- searching for correspondences to get the email and insert the most infective method here, blah, blah, blah.

  Obviously, the easiest way would be to remember to add writers to the contact list but remembering to that is kind of like when I was fourteen and I kept getting in trouble for forgetting to turn shower back to faucet. I still forget despite countless accidental showers (see Korean bathroom) that has resulted in becoming moderately waterlogged to saturated (it really sucks when this happens before work). Okay, so I've digressed.

Two weeks ago when I started setting up the database in-between editing, I had no idea in what ways it might be useful. I had an idea there were, and I'm going to get technical here (as if this joke wasn't already old) "things" and "stuff."

A few years ago idea lightning struck. "I know, I'll start a publishing company!" Since first getting struck by this idea, Green Gecko publishing has Passion for Horses and Passion for Weird Tales, and this year Passion for Ghosts, Passion for Puns, Passion for Dogs, Passion for Cats and the Dirty GRE are slated for publication.

In the process, I also learned why small publishing houses close their websites shortly after opening: it's not easy. Also, there's a lot  more paper work than I ever imagined.

Anyway,  I've decided to record my publishing growing pains publicly. (If you were worried I was closing my doors know that doing this is a love-hate self imposed purgatory. I hate the work, but I love the books when they're finished too much to quit.) As for the specific growing pains, here's a look behind the scenes. Well, actually it's not a look, because I don't have a reality TV crew following me around and so there's nothing for you see beyond the words I type here.

Passion for Dogs is closed to further submissions. Only four authors with submissions for Passion for Dogs have not received information about their story status. All four stories are being considered for Passion for Dogs.

If you have submitted to another project and not received a response, please let me know.