We're fast reaching the end of our print run on 65 My Life So Far.
Rather than print up more copies, having sold enough through Amazon and various other outlets to cover our costs, I'm looking for a publisher to pick it up and either press more copies and distribute and push it, or to pick up the paperback rights.

I absolutely understand that with the mindset of media and retail, this is not an easy project. On the other hand, after shifting 50 copies in 2 days after a mention in Popbitch, the demand is clearly out there. Many thousands - or even millions - who would like to read the memoirs of someone who was actually there, if only they knew about it.

So, if you're a Publisher more motivated by quality and potential appeal than by the one dimensional tabloid headlines - do get in touch.

Blake Publishing? Fourth Estate? Cannongate?

yes Miss Minge is right..surley John Blake ???

what about an internet version to be downloaded. Get in now before everyone else..in 10 years we'll all be publishers.

And the spoken version ?..my new favourite thing..listening to talking books in the car..especially biogs

Ah Veritas there is indeed an Internet version - just go to Amazon.com and the Kindle version is there!

wonderful !! I haven't got a kindle but I may get one of those apple things.

on second thoughts I think you have to be a serial killer for Blake Publsihing to be intersted

I don't know the company personally, but Metro Books also looks like it'd be worth a try (they published Bob Woffinden's last book, I think). I suspect the nudge some publishers might need is a suitable current 'mainstream' figure who'd write a foreword for the new edition. That would be my (pragmatic) suggestion (maybe two or three brief forewords, one by an industry 'insider', one an industry critic/commentator - strength in numbers and all that...). The book doesn't need it, but, in this depressingly non-ideal world, the publishers might.

Prunella Minge wrote:
I suspect the nudge some publishers might need is a suitable current 'mainstream' figure who'd write a foreword for the new edition. That would be my (pragmatic) suggestion (maybe two or three brief forewords, one by an industry 'insider', one an industry critic/commentator - strength in numbers and all that...). The book doesn't need it, but, in this depressingly non-ideal world, the publishers might.

Couldn't Simon write: "I've known JK for most of my working life, and was happy to put up the £30,000 bail money. Since then, my own pubicist has suggested I distance myself, but this is such a valid project, I can only support it."

It was £50,000 actually! But I suspect Fat Max, banking his million from the News of the World, would insist he doesn't!

It's an awkward time of year. The best (free) thing would be to get some mentions in 'Books of the Year' lists next December and then (because publishers these days are appalling relativists) get a deal for 2011. But the book really does deserve to be read widely here and now. So I would push for the (two or more) foreword idea - Lyn Barber...Stephen Fry...Samantha Fox...Scott Walker... The important thing is the book DOES get out there, because it IS an immediate classic.