This Time It’s Personal

Genre writing has a long history of being used to speak out against oppression where realistic writing would have been clamped down on. In January, something happened that made a lot of creatives want to find a way to speak out. We didn’t want to just talk about what was actually happening. The reality was inescapable. We wanted to use our skills as fiction writes to express our absolute horror at the way things were going.

A horror writer we’ve worked with several times approached us with an idea. Why not do an actual horror  anthology about what’s going on? After some consideration, we agreed. We put out a call for stories, we read, we narrowed down the list just like for any other book.

But then something interesting happened–we started to think bigger.

How much bigger? You decide.

Our newest Kickstarter launches soon.  Get ready.

Our New Book Project: After Red Phone Box

If you’ve been following along recently, you know we’ve stopped publishing and are on hiatus. This happened for a couple of reasons. The inciting incident, so to speak was that Salome, our acquisitions editor was very  ill and in the hospital for weeks. Then she spent months recovering. But underlying issues also existed.  Salome and […]

We’re Taking a Hiatus from Publishing Novels

The core of Ghostwoods Books is being fair to authors, which means splitting a book’s sales 50/50. That’s our strength, but it’s also a vulnerability. Most books don’t sell that many copies, and that’s true right across the publishing industry. When you’re being fair to authors, and to readers, that means not much income. We’ve always […]

Evolution or Revolution? ¿Por qué no los dos?

When Tim started Ghostwoods Books, he was mostly thinking that digital publishing might allow publishers to share profits equally with writers. We tried that for a while before realizing that books were very hard to sell unless you had a strategy for attracting readers. We continued publishing while also doing editing and writing as a […]