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William Dorich Quick Facts

Main Areas: Quality Self Publishing
Best Sellers: The Nursing Home Crisis, Defeat Foreclosure, Sleep Seekers, Kosovo, A Brief History of Serbian Music and Jasenovac Then & Now: A Conspiracy of Silence
Career Focus: Publisher, Author, Editor
Our mission at GMBooks.com is to provide a secure and supportive environment for either first-time or experienced authors who wish to see their manuscripts come to fruition rapidly and without the traditional delays or worse, abandonment of a property by a major publisher.

By selecting GM Books you are assured of an association with a full service company in which you are a participant in the publishing process and in total control of the development of your manuscript through our professional guidance.

Founded in Los Angeles in 1984 by Anita and William Dorich, the company was formed to offer an alternative to hundreds of rejection letters and the pitfalls of conventional publishing in which the author surrenders all creative and editing rights. Unlike the usual 10% royalty offered by major publishers, our authors receive up to 60% of the net proceeds from the sale of their book.

William Dorich brings to GM Books 26 years of printing experience and a background in commercial photography. As the author of 5 books on Balkan history and music, his own venture into self-publishing became the impetus for forming the company. His 2008 book is Defeat Foreclosure to aid homeowners in saving their home. His in 2009 is, The Nursing Home Crisis. His current books is Sleep Seekers: A Reference Guide for Insomniacs and Serbia: Faces & Places.

Anita Dorich, Editor, Research and Project Director for GM Books, received a BSW from San Francisco State University and has had postgraduate training at U.C. Berkeley and U.S.C., with a background in professional counseling in the motion picture industry. She joined GM Books in 1991. Her expertise is in assisting and guiding the creative personality. She has overseen editing and production on more than 40 titles and is currently writing her own book.

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Other Programs & Highlights

Our Services Include:

Book and Cover Design
Book Packaging
Text Editing and Specialized Story Content Editing
Color Separations and Pre-Press
Small or Large Press Runs
Printing in Hong Kong (Save up to 20% over U.S. production)
Custom Book Binding
Internet Marketing
Mailing and Fulfillment
Accounting Services
Assistance in Finding a Reputable Literary Agent, Motion Picture and Television Script Agent and Publicist
Arranging for an ISBN and Library of Congress Numbers and Retail Bar Codes
Website Design for Promotion of Titles
Preparation of Professional Press Releases and Mailing Lists
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from William Dorich

"Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life—

not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving—

not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness—

not by our seeming greatness." —William Arthur Ward

Anita and I have been married for 44 years—we attribute the success of our marriage, our personal success, and our friendships both private and business to these powerful words.

Getting Started With William Dorich

We began GM Books in 1985 after I had an unpleasant experience with a major publisher. The company was established as a hand in the dark and a positive experience to receiving dozens of rejection letters. Our first client was Richard Saul Wurman and information author and creator of the TED Conferences. Through his company, Access Press Ltd., we published 48 titles such as Access New York, Access San Francisco, Access Paris, London and Rome.

Major titles include the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games for ARCO; Understanding Money and Markets for the Wall Street Journal; Investing in the 90's for Fortune Magazine. Each of these titles sold over one million copies.

For the Los Angeles Times we have produced 7 titles including ConArtist, 30 years of Paul Conrad their political cartoonist, 4:31 The Los Angeles Earthquake, 30 Years of Recipe Request by Rose Dosti and Witness to War: Images of the Persian Gulf War which won a Pulitzer. In addition to books like Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting by award winning journalist Peter Brock, Love is Love...But, Business is Business by Merle Horwitz, The Kissing Cure by Dr. Ruth McConnell and This Bible Talks by Pamela Fischer our firm has published 160 titles in ten years with the who's who in American business. Current book projects include TransAtlantic Man and Global Citizen, a two volume autobiography of Sir Eldon Griffiths who served 3 decades in the British Parliament, was editor of Time and Newsweek and is currently the president of the World Affairs Council of Orange County, California.

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