Mission Statement
To be the Jerry Maguire of the publishing industry. Glass House Press is a traditional publishing house that will be run in a most untraditional way. Our goals: to maintain personal interest and contact with each of our authors. To have one editor/book shepherd dedicated to each writer in our stable. To be available to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, via email, telephone, and even physical meetings. To be at every book signing and personal appearance. To personally walk the floor with them at every trade show. To attend the family barbeques.
And to successfully compete with the biggest publishing houses, and fill our genre niches, while doing so. To do the highest quality job possible, and present our books on the highest levels possible. Finally, to share the success equally with our authors.
History
Glass House Press was started in January, 2008 by long-time bibliophile and publishing enthusiast, Carrie White. After having struggled for years in various (non-fiction) publishing, editing, and production positions, Carrie stumbled across a fiction manuscript that deserved a better chance than it was receiving. Gauntlet, the novel born of that manuscript, gave her the impetus to jump into publishing, and will be released on March 2, 2009, as the first title of both Glass House Press and Richard Aaron, author. Since opening its doors, Glass House has received the approval and endorsement of several high-ranking organizations and individuals, including the PMA (now IBPA), Midpoint Trade Books and Eric Kampmann, president, Beagle Bay Inc/Creative Minds Press and president, Jacqueline Church-Simonds, copywriter, marketer, and author Shel Horowitz, and Antoinette Kuritz, president of Strategies Literary Public Relations, and coordinator of the La Jolla Writer’s Conference.