Social Glue: An Unusual Publishing Perspective

When I ask the question, “What is publishing?” many people reply with the same three answers.

1) Publishing is the act of taking a well edited story and printing it to paper for people to read.
2) Publishing provides carefully crafted novels for the reader’s enjoyment.
3) Publishing is a vehicle for countless rejection letters and grey hairs.

All these descriptions are soulless (and more than a little bitter...). Publishing has been streamlined in the past several decades making it hard to imagine it as anything other than some utilitarian entity a writer must pass by to be heard. The paper we print our words on has become cheaper and cheaper, and the size and shape of novels are altered for no greater reason then they fit into a box better.

Yet publishing is much more than just a way to get your words out there, it is a connection. Not just a solitary writer, putting pen to paper to be distributed. Not just a reader who blocks out the world with your words. Books allow a point of dialogue, a shared experience when you are not even reading in the same room, the same continent, the same country as the person you are discussing it with.

This is learnt from the wonderful Richard Nash whom I interviewed. A wealth of advice and ideas, I promised I would share some of what we talked about on the blog. In this interview extract Richard talks about his view of what publishing is; a social glue that binds society and is not limited to words on a page.



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