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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Date: 26 August, 2017 For immediate release SUMMARY A progressive Anglo-American press is producing an anthology of stories which portray Donald Trump as a Lovecraftian abomination. DETAILS The King in Orange: Shadows Over the White House contains more than fifteen stories of cosmic and supernatural horror written by an assortment of professional writers and wordsmiths. […]

You know us. We like fairness. We like transparency. We split our proceeds evenly with our authors and even give our work away to keep the press going. It will come as no surprise that we’re pretty mortified about what’s going on in the US right now. Actually we’ve been fairly mortified since last year […]

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 […]

The Boy Who Spoke to Stars has been selected as a teaching text at the British council school in Taiwan. We’re very pleased for Reuben and for the kids. It’s a fun book for older middle graders and up. Check out Reuben’s responses to the questions below. The kids sent Reuben a list of questions […]

Many thanks to all the participants. We were very impressed by the genuine feeling of all the haiku submitted. Here are our favorites and the reasoning behind our decisions. LILY sea brings back to shore boy bloated like closed lily life never unfurled by Samuel Son Samuel’s poem made us think of regugee children recently […]

We had so many great entries, it’s really challenging to narrow them down, so we’ve started by selecting a group of our favorites. We’ll choose the final winners from this group. You have not made this easy on us at all. But here are the first round selection. You will notice that a few of […]

A couple of weeks ago we decided to hold a contest in which people wrote haikus (typically poems of three lines, 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7, and 5) about what’s going on in the world today. We were overwhelmed at the response and decided that we should post the submissions before we […]