We are not a vanity press. We don't ask you to underwrite the cost of publishing and promoting your work. Once we accept a manuscript, we'll fund and manage the entire process of getting it into the hands of the reading public. Payment to you will come in the form of a royalty on each copy sold at retail. What's more, we won't insist that you accept the terms of our standard contract. We're ready to negotiate to our mutual satisfaction, because any author good enough to meet our high standards deserves our respect.

Quite honestly, we can't promise the kind of media attention or global penetration attained by larger and more publicly recognized publishers. What The Pemaquid Press does seek, however, is the placement of your work into a carefully selected set of channels that will reach readers likely to appreciate it.

We believe that The Pemaquid Press offers some advantages not readily available from the less agile publishers you might have considered in the past. For example, we are an affiliate of doer.com, a growing presence in the emerging internet marketplace of ideas. E-commerce can be a viable adjunct to other channels of distribution, and the doer.com expertise will be at your service. Another doer.com affiliate, The Studio at doer.com, can prepare a customized website where potential readers can learn more about your work. We'll offer these and similar related services to our writers at no cost.

In addition, The Pemaquid Press provides the personal relationship that larger houses seem to sacrifice in their quest for marketshare. We believe your publisher should pay as much attention to your work as you do.

We'll welcome the opportunity to discuss with you our establishing a mutually advantageous relationship as author and publisher. If this appeals to you, please contact us. We prefer initial contact through email: pemaquidpress@doer.com

If you have no access to email, please use our principal postal address:
The Pemaquid Press
PO Box 82
Round Pond, Maine 04564-0082
USA

Our New York editorial desk is located at
The Pemaquid Press
Office 2271
349 West Commercial Street
East Rochester, NY 14445

Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts. We simply have neither the staffing nor the time to read and return them. Let's get to know each other first. There'll be time later to consider the merit of what you've written.

We are always interested in hearing from literary agents, as well. If you are contacting us about an agent/publisher relationship, please mark your envelope or your e-mail with the word Agent for immediate attention. Thank you.

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Today the light is automated and the village maintains the land immediately surrounding the lighthouse as a public park. It draws thousands of visitors each year. There is an excellent fisherman's museum in the lighthouse keepers' former house. The peninsula and its lighthouse continue to inspire artists in all media. In fact, by popular vote Pemaquid Point was selected to be the motif for Maine's coin in the series of fifty quarters honoring the states of the nation.

The neighboring village of Round Pond, about ten miles north of Pemaquid, was the ancestral home of the Doering family. We selected the Pemaquid name for our publishing venture to invoke the spirit of a special place that has contributed memorable drama, pleasure and beauty to the lives of so many people. We are working hard to ensure that our body of published work will deserve a similar reputation.