Marcher Lord Press

In medieval times a marcher lord was a knight who was given lands on the extreme borders of the kingdom.  His charge was to patrol and protect the territory and to develop it to the point where it would no longer be the "frontier."

Jeff Gerke is the founder and owner of Marcher Lord Press, which publishes Christian speculative fiction.  Marcher Lord (http://www.marcherlordpress.com/ ) is an actual small run publisher, not a vanity press, and uses a POD (printing on demand) format.  Instead of print runs in the thousands, a print run is one book.  A successful book may sell hundreds of copies instead of thousands.

Seminary trained Gerke is a novelist, editor, and now, publisher.  His company fills a niche, with Christian fiction which a Christian Booksellers Association publisher would not consider.

My own personal interest in Marcher Lord came about because I have several unpublished science fiction novels either completed or in progress.  Marcher Lord is not Doubleday or Putnam or Scholastic, but it apparently has hundreds of aspiring authors who have submitted novels for Mr. Gerke's consideration.  So many, in fact, that he has had to close his acquisitions for up to a full year because of his backlog of submissions.