Alessandro Gallenzi is MD at independent publishers Alma and Oneworld Classics and The Bookseller this morning ran a piece on the London-based literary press securing a global sales and distribution deal with Bloomsbury. I am delighted for Alma and Oneworld Classics. My bookshelves are filled with titles from the old John Calder catalogue, and the…
Fulmer and The Blind Book Translator of Paris
Back in February of this year, we took a look at Five Stones Press as part of our series of Publishing Innovators. Mystery novelist David Fulmer from Atlanta Georgia, with the support of two business friends, launched his small independent press with its unique business model of fan-base supportive publishing. “Fulmer decided if he was…
Milverstead Publishing – Overview
One year ago, almost to the day, Christopher Finlan was in a very different place. Diagnosed with ADD, and believing his life was somehow ruined, he was ready to give up on the life he had built and move to Texas to try and start afresh. But something made Finlan stay with his family in…
Cantara Christopher Interview on Subtletea
Cantara Christopher shared a link with me this morning to an interview she undertook with David Herrle at SubtleTea.com. Christopher is co-founder of Cantara Books, a literary micropress. Hats off to both Christopher and Herrle. This a fascinating, engaging and inspiring interview on the passion and dedication to literature and what publishing should be about. This…
Publishr Author and Book Revealed
A couple of weeks ago we took a look at Publishr, a new innovative publishing project by Brett Sandusky and his team. Today, by way of personal introduction, Brian Joseph Davis revealed himself and his manuscript The Incompetents as soon-to-be Publishr author and novel. Publishing is ready to embrace networked brainpower. Fiction writers, however, have…
Self-Publisher Experience Days: (Author’s Choice) – Overview
The Author’s Choice Partnership is a an endeavour set up by UK self-publishing service, Matador (imprint of Troubador Publishing), and MPG Biddles (MPG Books Group), a book manufacturer specializing in short-to-medium print-runs (lithographic and POD). Although both companies operate in the print and publishing industry independently, Author’s Choice will offer a host of bespoke self-publishing…
Publishr – Overview
All books go through a stage of being a work-in-progress. It could be rightly argued that they remain works in progress until the final edited version rolls off the printer’s assembly line. In many cases, thousands of penned manuscripts every year never escape the perpetual status of a work-in-progress. You could apply the same analogy…
Slush Pile Reader Announce 2.0 Improved Features
Last month we did an overview of Slush Pile Reader as part of our publishing innovators series. Yesterday Slush Pile Reader announced some improvements to their site, and in particular, manuscript consumption, badges creating external promotional links to authors’ manuscripts, personalized lists for users, and a host of other improvement features to the site. “We…
Maverick House Publishers (Overview) & The Province of Irish Publishing
Maverick House Publishers is an independent publisher of non-fiction books founded by Jean Harrington in 2002 with its main headquarters in Dunboyne, Co. Meath, Ireland. Expansion of the company has seen them open a second office in Bangkok, Thailand to augment their sales and distribution representation in the Far East, as well as Australia, New…
AmazonEncore Announce Six Summer Titles
Amazon announced six more new titles to be published this summer under their AmazonEncore imprint. The six books will be published in print and Kindle editions. I have stated here before that while Amazon may at times give us reason to question their influence on the publishing industry and dominance and tactics as a retailer, AmazonEncore…