Dear Gerard Jones: Thank you for your amazing website, which a colleague has just alerted me to. Would you be happy to include details of Tindal Street Press on your site? We're not book doctors or silly and vain - rather we were set up in the late-1990s to counter some of the metropolitan bias in UK fiction publishing, which we have done with a measure of success: four prize-winning titles so far, distribution deals in the US, Australia and South-East Asia, a forthcoming French translation deal and excellent national reviews for each of our books. We publish novels and short stories by new writers from the English regions, with a particular focus on Birmingham and the West Midlands, as that's where we're based. We're a small (six titles a year), independent press (lucky enough to be funded by West Midlands Arts, Birmingham City Council and Travel West Midlands) always on the lookout for exciting new writers - and our commitment to author-development and the short story as a form make us fairly unusual in the book world at the moment. We've just relaunched our website with an online bookstore - www.tindalstreet.co.uk - and would be delighted to include a link to your site if you're interested. Thanks again for a great website, and I hope to hear from you soon. Best regards, Emma Hargrave, Managing Editor, Tindal Street Press Ltd., Tel: 0121 773 8157
Dear Emma: Sure. I took a look at your website and will add you to my site within a few days. I left out a bunch of good agents, editors and publishers, but when I hear about a good one I'm always happy to include it. Oh, and you're welcome to add a link to my site, but I really don't require any kind of quid pro quo. I just do pretty much whatever I want to do. Thanks. G.
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