Publishing Terms to Know as an Author: Imprint, Ghostwriter, Genre and Galley Copy

Name applied to a publisher's specific line of books. I mean, in self publishing you can be fancy and say your publishing company. Like mine. Stickhorse Publishing is an imprint. Officially, though it's used for big houses like Penguin to use for their different kind of books. They have Avery and Berkeley and Writer's Digest Books and Penguin Classics Ghostwriter. Someone writes your book, an article or content for you, and your name goes on it. Genre. This is one that gets thrown around a lot, so I figured it's a good one for the list. Essentially this is where your book gets classified. Like if you were in a grocery store and you know, this is where you find it. Like fruit versus baked goods versus dairy. Except we're talking fiction versus nonfiction and then drilling down further into horror versus romance or finance versus fitness. Galleys. A galley copy is basically an arc, an advanced reader copy. It's not a final version, but you want to get it out for blurbs and endorsements.