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Conventional publishers take a deep breath. Based in Richmond, south- west London, new indie house Fingerpress (J200, IPG stand) is regularly selling 20,000 copies of novels in its Barbarian Warlord saga, its series of Roman historical novels. Tere are houses with a staff of 50 who would be glad to achieve the
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same, but Fingerpress is just 41-year-old Matt Stephens, whose background is in IT in the City, and his wife Michelle, with whom he set up the publisher in 2010. His own reading tastes have
influenced one of the areas it publishes in, namely SF and fantasy. Novels in this area, plus historical fiction and a range of digital travel guides, form its 15-strong list today, although it plans to have up to 45
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titles in its catalogue by the end of this year. “We chose these areas because the
more mainstream subjects are harder to break into,” says Stephens. “With genre categories there is definitely more scope for new publishers. “We’re very digitally orientated, with most of our books produced for
Dead Petals Eric Ortlund Canadian author Ortlund’s different take on the zombie novel: the
zombies here are plant-like (they grow leaves on their bodies in the sun) and cannot be stopped: hack off a limb and a new one grows in its place.
the Kindle or iPad. Our travel guides are targeted at the iPad in particular, since this is the best size for the embedded videos, photo slideshows and panoramic views. But we have plans for Android apps too.” Fingerpress advertises on
Facebook, with a click-through to Amazon, and has listings on
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