Dell Publishing was an American publisher of books, magazines, and comic books. It was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr.. During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. From 1929 to 1974, they published comics under the Dell Comics line, the bulk of which (1938-62) was done in partnership with Western Publishing. In 1943, Dell entered into paperback book publishing with "Dell Paperbacks". They also used the book imprint of "Dial Press", "Delacorte Books", "Yearling Books" and "Laurel Leaf Library" [1]#redirect Book ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... George T. Delacorte, Jr. ... Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publications, which got its start in pulp magazines. ... This is a page about the company Western Publishing. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ...
Dell Publishing no longer exists. They were bought out and now only remain as part of the "Bantam Dell Publishing Group" of Random House, which also uses some of Dell's other imprints. Dell Magazines still exists, however, only as a publisher of puzzle magazines. Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. ... Dell Magazines is a company founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. ...
Manuscripts submitted to a previous DelacortePress contest are not eligible.
Manuscripts sent to DelacortePress may not be submitted to other publishers or literary agents while under consideration for the prize.
The editors of DelacortePressBooks for Young Readers will not be able to offer critiques of manuscripts or enter into correspondence about the manuscripts other than with the winning author.
At this point, Delacorte may choose to name a prize winner from among the entries, to not give the award (as they did in 1986, 1993, and 1995), and/or to name an honor book or books (as they did in all years the award was bestowed except for 1988 and 1994).
In addition to declaring award winners, DelacortePress publishes these prize winning novels in both hardcover and softcover, and gives the authors an option for their next book.
The 1994 DelacortePress Prize winner was Martha Moore, author of Under the Mermaid Angel, a book additionally honored by being named as an American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults as well as an ALA Notable Book for Children.
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