For a small publisher I seem to have spent far more time in cyberspace than on creating more books, or selling the first small books title. The last fortnight has been an adventure, fiddling about with widgets and html, crossing my fingers every time that pages full of gibberish will translate into a website that actually works. Not as satisfying as writing books but having a website gives me a) a more professional shopfront to demonstrate to the people I want to sell to that I can be taken seriously (ish) and b) proof to myself that I really am doing this!
Now it’s up, thanks to the brilliant Nikki Zalewski- whose emails have been arriving later and later into the night as she tweaks and tinkers with the pages (get some sleep now Nik!) – I just want to get on with the business of being a publisher rather than a web wizard.
I’m terrified someone’s going to stumble on the site and ask why it’s not called ’small book’ since we’ve only actually published one title – and even that’s currently in the hold of a ship on its way from China.
Time to let the website out on its own for a while and concentrate on hitting the phones and the keys on my laptop.

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December 20, 2007 at 7:49 pm
Shirley Paley
1000 copies of your book ‘losing your pet’ arrive on your doorstep and on the same day Twiglet goes missing.The agonising hours looking for your beloved cat and the irony of it was not lost on either of us.I was reminded again of the dreadful day when Pocket was lost to us all forever and from that huge grief ,a germ of an idea was born that became this first ’small book’…
I am so proud of you sis,I know this book will help many people.We briefly revisited the feelings from which this book was born yesterday when little Twiglet was lost and we didn’t know if we would see him again.His joyous return was a little Christmas miracle…Shushie xxx