There's a lot going on at Steady Moon Press, a new publishing company that was founded in May. Right now we are working on Amanda Clark's fourth book, Through the Blinds, that is currently in the final stages. The book will be available on Amazon and the Steady Moon Press website (many other places online and stores as well) for $8.00. A second edition of Looking at the Moon is also in the making. To kick off some excitement about narrative/themed poetry Steady Moon Press will be conducting a poetry anthology contest in the next couple months. This will be based around a particular theme. Authors will be invited to send in 3-5 poems on ta particular topic. New and experienced authors will be welcomed. If selected, authors will have their poems published in an anthology, receive a free complimentary book, as well as receive a free author spot on the Steady Moon Press website. Although there are no royalty fees paid to authors for the selling of this book (there will be around to 15-30 authors selected) this is a spectacular opportunity for new and experienced writers of poetry to be part of a published poetic journal. The winners will receive great PR, a boost in their writer's resume, as well as the right to republish the poem anywhere else in the future (as long as there is a note that it was previously published by Steady Moon Press)
Additionally, Steady Moon is promoting the work of its talented logo designer, Joel Rudolph. Rudolph designs quality black ink drawings of states and their history as well as requested commissions of virtually any topic (weddings, activities, birthdays etc). He will soon have a link to his works on the SMP website. To start off, his featured works are Vermont History 8X11 signed posters for 10.00 each. This poster includes history and pictures/words all having to do with VT.

After this endeavor Steady Moon will be accepting submissions for books of narrative poetry. Poetic diaries, poetic memoirs, and poetic children's books all fall into this category. It may be a few months until these submission are accepted due to Clark's books, poetry readings, and the anthology contest. However, once we get going Steady Moon plans on publishing approximately 4-6 books a year (possibly more, we will see). We are a small company headed by an experienced author who has designed book covers, edited, formatted, made e-books, done a lot of PR, began audio books and more.

Note that Steady Moon Press will be screening submissions, and since we are a very small company (only publishing 4-6 books a year) to be blunt, there will be refusal letters. Clark, who has been published by a traditional publisher, as well as a literary journal, and numerous newspapers, still knows how devastating these refusal letters can be. However, anyone who has written a poetic narrative is encouraged to submit, and if they do not get accepted, keep on trying, and never give up. If you believe in your writing, you will have to deal with both the triumphs and the downfalls. Steady Moon Press will do everything they can to give serious/quality writers a chance and believes every writer should have the opportunity to submit. We look forward to the future! Keep writing!