HardPressed, conceived to fill the current gap in a publishing market.Our favoured genre is UK Urban Fiction, this is the genre which we intend to promote, initially only on electronic devices.
In an urban environment, beyond a certain age, children who continue to read books are referred to as bookworms or nerds, neither of these terms are used in a particular endearing manner. In adulthood, the nerds put pen to paper, and evolve into writerly types, penning stories for their younger selves. In western society two separate types of child develop; the nerds with books, and the others. And so the tail wags the dog. The others are the majority, and therefore - normal. Until the other children are catered for, they will continue to dunk nerds heads into toilet bowls and steal their expensive trainers.
It is natural, as it is unfortunate, writerly people pursue careers in the publishing industry. These people eventually become 'the gatekeepers', and so the literary brand of cancerous nepotism continues.
The UK possesses a vast array of cultures and sub-cultures, however, the gatekeepers of the commercial publishing industry are all cut from the same cloth. If a Chinaman were to write a comedy, how would you know the appeal of the work to his fellow countrymen if one were not a Chinaman oneself? Naturally, caution dictates, you will not invest.
It is our intention to publish books within our chosen genre and prove a market exists. Evidence of a market should reduce the risk element of the calculation for major publishers. Hopefully, HardPressed will prove to be a launching pad for the next generation of normal fiction writers.
Allegedly we live in a multi-cultural society. After ploughing through 1000 books on the current Harper Collins slush-pile we found the number of UK books with 'international' central characters to be less than 0.2%.
According to Wiki, there are only 34 Black British Writers.
Study the list. If you take out the poets, and those named which are mixed race, you can probably make a very strong case for breeding black writers in captivity.
In an urban environment, beyond a certain age, children who continue to read books are referred to as bookworms or nerds, neither of these terms are used in a particular endearing manner. In adulthood, the nerds put pen to paper, and evolve into writerly types, penning stories for their younger selves. In western society two separate types of child develop; the nerds with books, and the others. And so the tail wags the dog. The others are the majority, and therefore - normal. Until the other children are catered for, they will continue to dunk nerds heads into toilet bowls and steal their expensive trainers.
It is natural, as it is unfortunate, writerly people pursue careers in the publishing industry. These people eventually become 'the gatekeepers', and so the literary brand of cancerous nepotism continues.
The UK possesses a vast array of cultures and sub-cultures, however, the gatekeepers of the commercial publishing industry are all cut from the same cloth. If a Chinaman were to write a comedy, how would you know the appeal of the work to his fellow countrymen if one were not a Chinaman oneself? Naturally, caution dictates, you will not invest.
It is our intention to publish books within our chosen genre and prove a market exists. Evidence of a market should reduce the risk element of the calculation for major publishers. Hopefully, HardPressed will prove to be a launching pad for the next generation of normal fiction writers.
Allegedly we live in a multi-cultural society. After ploughing through 1000 books on the current Harper Collins slush-pile we found the number of UK books with 'international' central characters to be less than 0.2%.
According to Wiki, there are only 34 Black British Writers.
Study the list. If you take out the poets, and those named which are mixed race, you can probably make a very strong case for breeding black writers in captivity.
