CDROM Authors Wanted

Looking for a publisher for your CDROM title?
Look no further, contact us immediately.


Walnut Creek CDROM is always looking for partners to produce new CDROM titles. We are a publishing company. Our product line ranges from shareware collections, Unix and programmer's tools, to products such as information, digital art and entertainment. Some of our products are market leaders.

We are most interested in mainstream products, but we are also willing to produce a niche disc. We are willing to consider almost any topic.

Listed below is our criteria for choosing disc titles. Look at the criteria, answer the questions and send this information back to us.

If we mutually decide we can work together, what follows is what usually happens. We (Walnut Creek CDROM) gives you (the author) feedback in producing your CDROM disc image to meet CDROM standards. Then you will send us your files. Working with you, we will make the CDROM easy for our customers to use. We will premaster, master and replicate the disc.

We will generate cover art for both the packaging and the CDROM. We will credit you as the CDROM author. We will do our best to market the disc and will want marketing help in the form of writen documentation about the project.

Payment is negotiable and based upon our judgment about the commercial viability of the project. We are unable to provide speculative funding for projects in progress.

We prefer to correspond via email, so if possible send your response to discdev@cdrom.com. If you don't have email, snail-mail your response to Walnut Creek CDROM at the address listed below. All correspondence is confidential.

Walnut Creek CDROM
ATTN: Disc Development Partnership
4041 Pike Lane, Suite E
Concord, CA 94520
U.S.A.

We are looking for:

  1. A title with a clear, well-defined topic/subject. If you had to sum up the disc in 50-250 words, what would you say?

  2. A title that has an audience. Who would buy the disc? If the disc appeals to a niche market, how big is that market and what is the best way to let that niche know about the title? How will you help with marketing?

  3. A title that is unusual. This is especially critical if the disc topic is similar to other discs on the market. What is different about your disc? What about this disc would make someone buy it instead of a similar disc?

  4. A developer who is an expert in the topic/subject area of the disc. What in your background and experience makes you qualified to make this disc?

  5. A title that is full of useful data, information, or stuff. A single CDROM disc can contain 650 MB. How many MB of data do you have for this disc? How many MB of data do you expect the completed disc to contain?

  6. Your contact information.