So last year I said I was going to start a new press, but then Nazis took over my country and I've been using every waking minute fighting the good fight. But now I'm starting to think about it again and I need your input! Keep reading or Nazis might breathe on you. lol nr jk - ThreadSky

salomekjones.bsky.social • 26 days ago

So last year I said I was going to start a new press, but then Nazis took over my country and I've been using every waking minute fighting the good fight. But now I'm starting to think about it again and I need your input! Keep reading or Nazis might breathe on you. lol nr jk

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salomekjones.bsky.social•26 days ago

You may or may not know this, but Ghostwoods and I ran a small fair trade press for a few years. It was not without mistakes, the first being that it could not sustain itself and we gave all our time and some of our own money to it. We have learned.

salomekjones.bsky.social•26 days ago

But what I want to know from you is what your dream publisher would do for you. Tell me. Tell me now. Please.

rpullins.bsky.social•26 days ago

I recently went to a writer's conference that was very agent/trad publishing heavy, and I had an important realization: they want to make Pop Music. They are looking for the catchiest beat and the least challenging lyrics. And that's just fine for them. The stuff they produce is consistently good

rpullins.bsky.social•26 days ago

But I don't want to make Pop, I couldn't even if I wanted to. It's just not ME. I want a publisher that is independent and unattached to the mainstream, unbeholden to trends, that just wants to make good stuff. I want a publisher that believes that the book existing is the goal.

rpullins.bsky.social•26 days ago

And that ultimately making good things in an uncaring world is an act of resistance. That we will not let them win and regardless of anything else we will keep singing. Maybe it is polishing brass on the Titanic, but I want to make that shit SHINE before we all sink.

salomekjones.bsky.social•26 days ago

Thank you!