Honest Publishing is delighted to announce the publication of its first paperback book, The Wooden Tongue Speaks, by exiled Romanian author Bogdan Tiganov. (more…)
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Articles, news and latest writings from alternative, original voices.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu and Us
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Nicolae Ceauşescu smiles at me in person but, most times, from the large and immortal picture of himself above my desk. Goodness truly radiates from that smile. He says a joke to me and I laugh, wholeheartedly. I love his jokes but when he leaves I feel my stomach has been pitted by the world’s biggest corkscrew. (more…)
Corruption
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011The act of corrupting or state of being corrupt.
The act of sitting on a bus, and teens beating on another teen. You do nothing. Like everyone else, you stare into the distance thinking about home, holidays, survival.
The act of sitting in an office not daring to express anything different because you know it won’t go down well, it won’t be understood, that you’ll be laughed off, shut in an echo. (more…)
A New Version of Huckleberry Finn Omits the N-word. Why?
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011The word ‘nigger’ appears 219 times in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the most anti-racist books I know. Absurdly, a new version published by NewSouth Books (who don’t deserve the dignity of a link) will replace this pejorative racial epithet with the word ‘slave’. (more…)
Independent Publishers: Who Needs Them?
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011On reading John Naughton‘s article ‘Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a ‘book’‘ in the Observer last month, it occurred to me some interesting questions were being raised.
“There will always be “books”. The question now is: will there always be publishers?” was one that particularly stood out, as you can imagine. I suppose to fully answer this question we need to first fully analyse what it is exactly publishers (like ourselves) do. (more…)
Liu Xiaobo and the Independent Press
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010The case of Liu Xiaobo is, to me, the finest example of the role independent publishing can and must play in the modern world. Last week, the Chinese dissident poet was awarded the Nobel peace prize “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. As he is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in Beijing for subversion, Liu was represented at the award ceremony in Norway by a vacant chair. (more…)
The Writers’ Gathering
Sunday, December 5th, 2010Envelope-pushing smiles. Trench coat-wearing, jumper-loving, fake champagne-sipping one-sided conversations.
Dull aches, headaches, cravat-wearing backslapping singalongs. Promotional videos, readings, chin-stroking poet varieties, big on sales, creativity half-price. (more…)
Introducing ‘Wedding Underwear for Mermaids’ by Linda Ann Strang
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010Honest Publishing is delighted to announce its latest publication, ‘Wedding Underwear for Mermaids’ by Linda Ann Strang. Arresting, intuitive and a little bit fishy, it’s a collection of poetry we’re proud to give a home to, and hope you’ll feel the same. Here’s a taster of what’s to come… (more…)
In Defence of Print on Demand Publishing
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Honest Publishing uses Print on Demand (POD) publishing. It’s certainly no secret, and we feel no shame in letting people know this. We take pride in our output because we work only with writers whose work we love, and whose work we think you’ll love. (more…)
