Graham King

"I decided to have a book of poems published at my own expense." It was 1909, a year before William Carlos Williams would open his pediatric practice in his hometown of Rutherford, New Jersey. A friend of his father owned a local print shop, so Williams paid for Poems, his 22-page chapbook, to be produced. Epigraphs from Shakespeare and Keats led the earnest little book.  Read more

Since 2012, the year I began working exclusively with self-publishers, I've helped more than 100 authors create self-publishing imprints. Some of these were formed as corporations and LLCs, but most were in name only.  Read more

As video content continues to grow in popularity and importance-with the original video sharing platform YouTube now the second most visited website in the world (behind Google)-are publishers doing enough to capitalise on this highly effective and engaging form of marketing?  Read more

Born in Maine in 1947, Stephen King wrote his first published novel, Carrie, in 1974 and has spent the subsequent half-century documenting the monsters and heroes of small-town America. His rogues' gallery of characters runs the gamut from killer clowns and demonic cars to psychotic fans and unhinged populist politicians.  Read more