For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to Chief Executive of Ringwood Publishing Sandy Jamieson, one of their authors Dr Anne Pettigrew, and their Assistant Managing Director Laure Camail. Celebrating their 20th birthday this year, Glasgow’s Ringwood show that it is possible to publish and survive in a city which has notoriously had problems sustaining and maintaining a publishing culture in recent years.
The panel discuss the reasons for starting Ringwood, their co-operative business model and how that has evolved, Anne’s novel Not The Life Imagined and the publishing process from the writer’s point of view, how Ringwood has had to adapt to the changes in the marketplace, and their plans for the future.
With their focus on publishing and supporting first time authors, and a willingness to address the themes of “politics, football, religion, money, sex and crime”, they are an independent publisher with a strong idea of who they are, and what they do. We’re saying this is a must listen for anyone interested in publishing as the talk offers rare and honest insight, touching on many practical aspects of the process, both positive and negative.
If you are new round these parts there is quite a substantial back-catalogue of podcasts for you to discover. If you aren’t yet a subscriber you can do so, (or simply listen) at iTunes, on Podbean, or by RSS (but you’ll need to have an RSS reader to do so).
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The next podcast will be the second in association with Scottish Opera and it will be with you very soon…