Editors' Blog
Where those submissions go
I guess I could call this confessions of an idealistic editor, but I’m not making a 70s made-for-TV film so I won’t.
In the early days of flipped eye publishing I saw every submission as a chance to enhance the experience that most aspiring writers have when they submit work to a publisher. I responded to [...]
A little distraction
Early in the week I was happy to have some non-literary distraction delivered to me by one of my authors and sometime freelance photographer and designer, who designed all but one of the books in our mouthmark series, Inua Ellams. The task was simple – to create out of the multiplicities of randomness the web [...]
Updates, shmupdates…
Alright, alright. Papa Ayikwei’s throwing his weight around, and it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so here I am. I’m busy as usual, with lots of good things happening. I’ve recently refreshed http://www.jsamlarose.com, and while there’s still quite a bit of work to do before it feels like home, I feel much [...]
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets
So, I arrived from a British Council-linked trip to India to find a press release about the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets. I’m very pleased about the awards for two reasons: 1) there is an award for both authors and publishers 2) I can’t help but feel that we contributed to the higher profile [...]
State of the Desk
Of course, I’m calling my new year rant ‘State of the Desk’ as opposed to ‘of the Industry’ or ‘of the Nation’ because I know that all I can control is my desk – and even that is a bit chaotic. But, the topmost thing in my mind does, in fact, relate to the publishing [...]
