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netgalley.com, which links authors and publishers with reviewers, libraries and booksellers, and
firstwriter.com. Te latter has proved invaluable in providing authors, Stephens says. He is very digitally aware and
notes that in previous years “it has been the Digital Zone that seems to have the huge buzz, and where people seem keen to talk to you. It seemed to
be where the lifeblood was.” Stephens hopes to use the fair to
promote the print side of the business. Its titles are carried by Bertrams and Gardners, but he hopes to explore sales and distribution opportunities. One title he will be showing is Dead Petals (see box), which has a horticultural theme and is described as “not your garden variety zombie apocalypse novel”.
publisher in its own right. Today, LCP—which has, says
In recent years we’ve heard much about successful self-published authors who are taken on by an established publisher. Now, with the tiny Regents Park-based Live Consciously Publishing (LCP) comes the reverse: a self-published author who decided to become an established publisher. When former Duncan Baird
author Gemini Adams sent out proposals for Your Legacy of Love, her moving study of ways to say goodbye, she received some very good reactions. “I thought that if there was that amount of interest this was something I could do myself,” she recalls, “but I didn’t want to just sign up with someone like Lulu and hope for the best.” Instead, she published the title
under her own imprint, Live Consciously, in 2009. Encouraged by good sales, in 2011 she decided to take the plunge and use her background in digital marketing and running courses for would-be writers, to establish Live Consciously as an independent
Adams
Adams with a smile, “just a single shelf on the Independent Publishers Guild stand [J200]”— covers “conscious living, developing a healthier lifestyle, finding balance, healing, reducing the stresses of modern living, helping you to unplug, get connected, dive into nature, tap in to your intuition, discover how to reach your full potential and live a life of wonder and divine adventure”. If that sounds too touchy-feely
for some, the house surely has at least one title that could be a Christmas bestseller. Te Facebook Diet, due in September, is a humorous take on Facebook addiction “and ways to un-plug with a tech detox”. Te Twitter Diet and Te You Tube Diet are also scheduled. LCP also co-publishes a Wild Swimming series with Bath-based Wild Tings Publishing. Te self-funded house now has
three titles in print (and digital) and three more due. Adams has a specific hope for the fair. “We’re growing organically, and we’re very digitally orientated in our marketing and sales reach. But as well as building awareness, we want to use the fair to find a UK distributor.”
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