I never considered publishing other authors until I was approached by David Coad. He had over 1500 poems written down and wanted to get a collection published, so I gave him advice on how I produced mine and offered to help out where I could. By the end of the project I had so much more experience, not just in typing and proofreading, but typesetting and marketing too. Marketing remains my weak point, but show me an author that's good at marketing and...well, I'll bite your hand off.
Kerry Vincent is a mutual friend of a friend who put together some personal poems about her experiences with her children. She now has seven, so is considered something of an expert. I put the same kind of work into her book and she became the third Lyvit author.
Alya Bessex and I met over the internet despite living in the same town. His first work, "The Unaired Views Of a Twenty Four Year Old Nobody", really struck a chord with me and I was grateful to publish something that wasn't poetry to give our catalogue a bit of diversity. Alya's all about being different; when his second book came to me featuring cover to cover poetry I was pleased to see it was dark and contained strong language - another new direction.
Mark Hendy's arrival at Lyvit completely changed our outlook. Until he arrived I saw the whole thing as a peripheral to my life, something not to be taken seriously. That's fine to a point, but he made me realise how little I was really contributing to the sales of my own work. With an overhaul of the website and a more positive approach we are now in a position to speak to bookshops and be taken seriously as a publisher. Many of our books can now be found in branches of Waterstones thanks to his enthusiasm.
Also, MI77OR IM46ES was Mark's idea. However, I came up with the name, much to his annoyance.
Kerry Vincent is a mutual friend of a friend who put together some personal poems about her experiences with her children. She now has seven, so is considered something of an expert. I put the same kind of work into her book and she became the third Lyvit author.
Alya Bessex and I met over the internet despite living in the same town. His first work, "The Unaired Views Of a Twenty Four Year Old Nobody", really struck a chord with me and I was grateful to publish something that wasn't poetry to give our catalogue a bit of diversity. Alya's all about being different; when his second book came to me featuring cover to cover poetry I was pleased to see it was dark and contained strong language - another new direction.
Mark Hendy's arrival at Lyvit completely changed our outlook. Until he arrived I saw the whole thing as a peripheral to my life, something not to be taken seriously. That's fine to a point, but he made me realise how little I was really contributing to the sales of my own work. With an overhaul of the website and a more positive approach we are now in a position to speak to bookshops and be taken seriously as a publisher. Many of our books can now be found in branches of Waterstones thanks to his enthusiasm.
Also, MI77OR IM46ES was Mark's idea. However, I came up with the name, much to his annoyance.