Circaidy Gregory Press

Independent Books for Independent Readers

About Us

Editor Kay Green writes

What do we mean by independent? For readers, it means having the courage and imagination to find your own favourites, rather than reading whatever reviewers tell 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.

We are told that more books are being published than ever before. Well, it depends what you mean by ‘published’. When you compare what’s in the mainstream bookshops up and down the country, or when you talk to the average reader, you get the feeling that just about everyone in the world is reading the same few books.

A book stored in an electronic file on the Internet by a company who plan to print a copy if and when someone stumbles across it and orders one is, I suppose, published: A few dozen copies printed, unedited, unreviewed, and sold to the author at cover price is another form of publication – but we at Circaidy Gregory Press are looking for something better than that – something smaller than mainstream publication, but a form that allows authors to produce a book of their own, to have it evaluated, edited and published without losing control of it, and to have a chance of benefiting from sales.

Working outside the mainstream book distribution industry, Circaidy Gregory Press, a small press with high editorial standards, aims to raise the profile of worthy authors and 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 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, but you can find them in independent bookshops, on our website and at a book fair near you. Wherever you find them, you will find something different from the top 100 fastsellers – but something well worth reading.

To Independent Writers and Illustrators

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. Our books are written and illustrated by club members or competition winners discovered at Earlyworks Press.