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Hastings Titles
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Down Bottle Alley
by Tom O'Brien
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Millennium Chronicle
of Hastings
by Ron Nicola
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The Circaidy Gregory Review of Small Press and Indie Books
About Us
Editor Kay Green writes
What
do we mean by independent? We stand for the reader's right to choose. We support
independent bookshops and work with other small presses to keep the choice of
books on the market as wide as possible. For readers, it means having the
opportunity to find your own favourites, rather than reading whatever the High
Street tells you is the number one this week. For writers, it means being given the
chance to take a bit of responsibility for your own creation: To have a hand in
the design, the marketing and the development of your books.
To Independent
Readers
You won’t necessarily find our books reviewed in the Guardian. They may not be in
the windows of the big chain bookstores, Amazon will probably tell you that they
are 'temporarily out of stock' despite the fact that we have never offered stock
to Amazon, or that they are 'unavailable', despite the fact that we can and do
supply anyone, including Amazon but you can find Circaidy Gregory books in independent bookshops, on our website and
in independent internet bookshops. Wherever you find them, you will find something different
from the top 100 fastsellers – but something well worth reading.
Working outside
the mainstream book distribution industry, Circaidy Gregory Press, a small press
with high editorial standards, aims to raise the profile of authors whose work
we consider original and valuable, and so to bring something different to the adventurous reader: Not famous names, not
high street best sellers, but carefully selected works by writers who have
proved themselves through freelance work, small press anthologies, little
magazines and Internet publications: Writers who live in the real world, have
something to say, and the talent to say their piece in an entertaining and
thought provoking manner.
To Independent Writers and Illustrators
Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts to us, either by post or email. The Circaidy Gregory reading diary is full until well into 2010 and once we do have reading time, priority will be given to Earlyworks Press competition winners.
If you would like to get involved in our future publications, come along and have a look at Earlyworks Press, the home of our Writers and Reviewers Club, and the workshop where our projects take shape.