We are Jolly Fish Press, a publishing
house based in Provo, Utah, which publishes trade fiction and select
non-fiction books in the national and international market. We excel in
exceptional cover design, worldwide online and brick-and-mortar distribution,
expansive publicity and marketing campaigns, subsidiary rights representation,
and most of all, our drive and ability to find exceptional, yet undiscovered
authors, jump starting their careers with maximum exposure, sales, mentoring,
and higher than industry average royalty rates.
In less than a year into our first
full title list, we’ve accomplished what takes most new presses several years,
namely:
1.Partnered
with IPG, one of the top independent book distributors in the world.
2.Established
relationships with several of the top NY literary agents.
3.Received
national media attention from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and other top
industry newspapers.
4.Caught
the attention of numerous movie and television production studios.
5.Gained
subsidiary rights representation throughout the world.
6.Gathered
a list of 50 potential bestsellers all over the US and Canada.
Jolly Fish Press is a publishing
house with audacity: we seek the best authors, fashioning them into
celebrities, and inserting innovations every step of the book-market way. Yup,
we do, in fact, disrupt the industry. And we're proud of it.
We
accept:
Commercial
and literary fiction, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, humor, horror,
thriller, middle-grade, YA.
What
we are looking for:
Each
editor looks for something a little bit different as you'll find in their bios
at JollyFishPress.com, but we are always excited about Sci-Fi YA thrillers,
quirky and scary MG, adult thrillers, horror for MG and up, dark and gritty
fantasy, and love stories that come at everything from a new angle.
Reece Hanzon
specializes in science fiction and fantasy. He is especially interested in
sci-fi thrillers, space opera, cyberpunk, urban fantasy, sword and sorcery, and
epic fantasy. He has a B.A. in communications, with a minor in editing, from
Brigham Young University. Reece has been with Jolly Fish Press since 2012, and
worked on various projects, including: The Moonlight Trilogy by Teri Harman;
The Psionic Earth series, by Dan Levinson; The Samaritan's Pistol by Eric
Bishop; and Dependent by Brenda Corey Dunne.
Reece’s latest acquisition includes
the Tokens and Omens series (JFP, Spring 2016) by Jeri Lynn Baird.
An avid reader,
writer, and editor, Kelsy Thompson graduated with her bachelor’s degree in
creative writing from Weber State University. She’s had a love affair with the
written word since she was a small child, and especially enjoys young adult
literature, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mysteries, and historical
fiction. She currently works as the managing editor at Weber—The Contemporary
West and is thrilled to be part of thze Jolly Fish team.
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