What sex secret, you may ask. Well, I’ll probably tell you at some point. But for now I just want to share a few photos from a visit to the HQ of independent publisher CB Editions.
Why? Because indie publishers provide an incredibly valuable service to the publishing industry as a whole. They take risks that big publishers won’t.
I’ll write more about this visit – about this indie publisher – at some point. But for now I’m restricting the pictures: you’ll see no picture of the publisher himself, apart from one leg, resting on a windowsill while he reads a manuscript.
Instead, I give you the desktop computer on which he designs the books he publishes, using InDesign, and a variety of typefaces chosen to suit the nature of the book in question. Also: his great big desktop printer, and the rocking chair, and the ashtray.
During my visit, Charles Boyle told me the story of how he ended up becoming a publisher, in his 50s.
It had to do with a relative dying, and leaving him some money. One thing led to another, and he’s still publishing many years later.
He’s thought about giving up, he said, but he obviously rather likes it. Apart from anything else, it provides him with a lively social life.
Anyway, here’s a glimpse inside his office (in Shepherd’s Bush, West London):
Find out more about CB Editions here.
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