A Publisher Not Part of the Manhattan Insanity

Something that is needed. Publisher Stuff - by Ian - The Bugscuffle Gazette

Given the current state of arts in America, we need all of the alternatives we can get. Will everything be great? Of course not. But what was the last great book you read, and when was it first written and published?

We’ve been talking with an author who’s been burned — a lot — by publishers in the past; and is — quite understandably — a tiny bit skittish, so we thought we’d do a quick post for those authors who suddenly seem to be finding us.

Hello! This is Raconteur Press, and Ian and Rita are the co-CEOs.

Before we go any further, this is the important part: Ian and Rita don’t have a clue how to be publishers. Ian did some Army time, and retired from law enforcement after 26 years; and Rita taught English at a liberal arts college for a brief while before realizing it was less stressful to counsel pilots.

The current breed of Woke that has an iron grip on publishing in Manhattan has decided that they will simply not publish anything by straight white men. (Racist? Yes, but they can't see that.) I don't know if they have expanded that ban to straight white women, or straight men in general, but I would not be surprised.

We are a small press, and we don’t have a lot of reach — yet.

We believe in treating our authors fairly, with open books and transparent accounting.

Our guiding light is: “It Must Be Entertaining, All Else Is Negotiable”, and we stick by that. We publish rollicking, entertaining stories in the vein of the old pulps; and just about the only thing we don’t want is erotica, romance, grimdark, or anything where the good guys lose, and the world sucks.

This is what Raconteur Press has to say about themselves on their website.

"Have Fun, Get PAID!!" Raconteur Press is an independent publisher of SF/Fantasy Anthologies in the tradition of the great pulp magazines of the 1930s-50s.