2016 was the year of the Monkey. Honestly it showed. 2016 has not been a stellar year for TANSTAAFL Press in meeting our commitments. We are hoping 2017 (year of the Rooster) is off on the right foot. We’ve already had several successful conventions and even better, we just sent Enter the Apocalypse off to […]
We at TANSTAAFL Press get this question often. So we’ve responded in kind.
We’ve been asked pretty much from our first public appearance to create and sell audio books. We finally got the financial wherewithal to take a stab at this. And what book would we do other than our best selling “Toy Wars”? Popular voice-over artist John Hough, himself a fan of Toy Wars, narrated our audio version of Toy Wars […]
TANSTAAFL Press has been keeping a secret. We haven’t been doing it out of malice or spite. We did it because we weren’t sure it would finally come off. It is rare a convention goes by that someone DOESN’T ask if we carry our title on audio books. The usual reason: I don’t have enough […]
While not directly applicable to publishing, we noted that many of our followers will find our book / publishing trailer amusing. Please let your friends know about it.
Since our inception, the symbol of our company has been a brass cannon. The brass cannon, like our company name, was a hommage to our favorite author, Robert Heinlein. We admit to a certain devilishness by using the extremely unusual reference to tease our patrons. Since its adoption we’ve found exactly five people who recognize it. Conversely, […]
TANSTAAFL Press is publishing Stephanie L. Weippert’s first novel! Now for the best part.. we should have this in print no later than the end of April. As a result of this tremendous and wonderful news we are offering Sweet Secrets as a preorder at a special low price. Reserve your copy today!
Folks, We’ve actually started some advertizing on Krypton Radio for our books. A couple of them are quite humorous and we encourage you to go take a listen. If you want to only catch they ads, they are on at the top of the hour, every hour. There are four ads run in rotation. Go take […]
I have been remiss in getting this data onto my website. I’ve reported it in my social media pages but not here. At the end of July, beginning of August we signed two new authors to book contract into our press. Our business plan only called for adding one author this year but how in […]
by Thomas Gondolfi – Since our origins there have been those who have pointed at TANSTAAFL Press and called us a vanity press or an outright cheat. As founder I’ve bristled at these comments but have kept my own angst under my hat, thinking that those people just didn’t understand. I waited, but watched. I recently lost […]