[neilmarr]

Oddly enough, Blue, one of the first ever ebook publishers in the world, Jacobyte Books, opened in Adelaide in the 1990s. General apathy in Australia and an inability to get paperback versions of their books into major international distribution meant they handed their titles and authors over to BeWrite Books in 2004 to save as many as we could from obscurity.

Many of their original authors are still with us, releasing new titles in ebook and treebook, and newcomers have arrived on the back of their success, and Meredith Whitford (a superb author and pro editor), who owned Jacobyte, remained a close pal. In fact, we released her new 'Shakespeare's Will' historical fiction just last month. Drop me a line with your preferred format if you'd like me to send you a copy.

She'll be heading up BB's operation down under next year with her original Jacobyte tech and admin team and -- hopefully -- a growing stable of writers from Australia and New Zealand. There are some brilliant authors in your neck of the woods, who haven't so far been given much of a chance.

Ebooks are no problem for us, of course, but Lightning Source's new Australian operation and/or a quality printer in Adelaide (PDA) will help us make local inroads in print for them, too, as well as our coverage in other parts of the world.

Cheers. Neil -- the email address, by the way, is ntmarrATbewrite.net (use the @ sign, of course)

PS: And to play fair, the offer of a free ebook copy of 'Shakespeare's Will' is open to anyone in this thread. N