Changes

It's notoriously difficult to sell short story collections, as those of you that have tried to will know. Bridge House is a partnership- an alliance of three writers and an admin person and we started out with a dream. We were well aware that there were not enough opportunities for short stories to be published in books and we wanted to give new writers a voice.

It went from strength to strength with 12 titles in less than 2 years. But sales are not as we'd hoped. It's not only hard to sell short stories but also to compete with the big publishing houses. But we love what we're doing so we plan to keep going.

Our most successful book was Gentle Footprints our charity collection, we managed to get that on TV and launched at Hay!

So, while none of us have been able to take a wage, and wonder if that will ever change, we are still carrying on but with changes.

The Bridge House partners met last week and looked at how we can keep going but without making a loss. Less titles, all charity and maybe in the future all competition anthologies which means there will be a small submission fee. It's a shame but since we work for free and we love the books we produce it's a way to still continue.

So do keep following us and let's make this Blog more interactive- authors- if you want to Blog please let me know and I will invite you to post. Let us know what you think!

Another change, starting with the new charity book for children we will be 'going direct' with the printer which we hope will widen our distribution channels and increase sales. It will also make less work for our great admin person who does not have the creative buzz Gill, Ollie and I have and we can't expect her to keep doing all that admin for free. She has been with us for 2 years and has done a fab job- but it's a lot of work and not the exciting stuff.

I hope this clarifies things- we are still here but with differences.

If any of you have any ideas we want to hear from you!

So we'll keep you posted!

Debz :)

DEBUT NOVEL COMPETITION WINNER

We are delighted to announce that Laura Wilkinson is the winner of the Debut Novel Competition with her novel Bloodmining.

Runner up for ner novel Timeshare was Yana Stajno.

To find our more visit the website MORE

Bloodmining will be out November 2011

New Look

Now that things are changing at Bridge House (for the better) the Blog has a new look and I have removed all the authors links as we have too many authors now!
But please do follow the Blog and any authors that want to post please let me know and you will be invited as a guest Blogger.
We want this Blog to be more user friendly and a forum for our authors to chat, tell us about your books launches, competitions for writers, workshops... anything writing or book related!

Debz