Initially a lot of the authors on our books are friends of mine. I know more crime writers than romance writers so that was a fairly easy decision. I knew fairly quickly that if we were going to hit the ground running we had to do it in genre publishing because the audiences and the routes to market are more clearly defined.įor me that meant either Crime or Romance. You decide to set up – what sort of books do you want to publish and how do you go about signing authors? Both publishers and authors can get paid fairly.Ģ.Effective marketing is scalable & predictable.Having a hit book doesn’t have to be a fluke.The main point of Fahrenheit is to prove that all the things I’ve been saying over the years are true. In the end I just got fed up shouting from the sidelines and decided to put my money where my mouth is and get back into the ring. In the 6 or 7 years I’ve taken a step back from the industry I’ve waited for things to get better but in fact they’ve got worse. I moved to Los Angeles about 6/7 years ago to concentrate on other things but I’ve always kept my hand in by writing opinion pieces and talking at publishing conferences around the world. In the end my speciality was finding poorly performing publishers, turning them around and selling them on. I’ve worked in publishing for 25 years, started as a marketing grunt for one of the big corporations and worked my way up. Thousands of authors careers are being thrown on the scrap heap because the business models of the big 5 publishing corporations are no longer aligned with the business models of authors. Authors are continually being let down by sub-standard marketing and promotion. In short I’ve become increasingly depressed and frustrated by the way the publishing industry has developed. The obvious – why did you decide to set up Fahrenheit?

Please welcome to neverimitate, the founder and mouthpiece of Fahrenheit Press, the original Hot Punk Publisher, Chris McVeigh.ġ. When they offered me the opportunity to interview them I jumped at the chance. I also know that many publicists truly believe in their product, and with justification.įahrenheit Press grabbed my attention because their approach was different. I’m not knocking that friendliness it is welcoming, encouraging. Sometimes, as I am being seduced by the friendliness and hype of publishing companies, it is easy to forget that this is why they exist.

They will provide books that are worth reading and they want you to buy them. They were arrogant, assured and deliciously upfront about what they were going to achieve. I first came across the all new Fahrenheit Press on Twitter.

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