Birth of a publisher? by Dennis Hamley
It's a lovely thing to feel you're in at the start of something which, if all goes well, will be really good. So I'm going to talk about something which has been in contemplative mode for a long time now but now might actually come to life. A new independent publisher. Do we really need yet another? Cally, Dan, Julia and Kathleen already mastermind very effective operations which we see as potent role models. And there are scores more doing great things. (There are also a few who aren't.) So why not have a go? Introducing; BLANK PAGE PRESS. I had hoped to introduce our rather good colophon here, but it seems beyond my puny technological powers . Blank Page Press has been a long time in the making and it's not quite there yet. Like many Indies, it was born out of the common realisation that traditional publishing was now virtually dead to us but losing our old publishers didn't mean we'd lost our minds as well. And besides, there is a host of n...