Sponsor a Book

 

The money we pay for distribution is a little dilemma for us. At £8.40 a year it is actually very good value for money. It would take us hours of admin to achieve what this does and that doesn't necessarily turn into sales.  

 

We have published over 200 books and are increasing the rate at which we publish. This year we have published twenty-one books. We keep books in print even after rights have returned to authors, unless the author asks us to take the book out of print.  So far, only two have done that. Which means we're paying £8.40 a year for 180  books. Do the sums.

 

To be fair, we've taken some of the annual anthologies out of distribution but they are still available from us and the e-books are still available.

 

So, we're inviting people to sponsor a book. You choose the book and you pay £8.40 a year. That will allow us to work on other books without the burden of that book's distribution costs.  

 

Which book to choose? Well, perhaps obviously you might choose your own. But it might be more fun to sponsor someone else's – they might then sponsor one of yours. Or you might sponsor one of our annual anthologies or one of the best of CaféLit books.

 

Don't worry – if your book doesn't attract a sponsor – we'll still keep it in print until you ask us to take it out.   

 

I wouldn't expect anyone, even myself, to sponsor more than one book.

 

What do you get for sponsorship? Naturally number one is the pleasure of supporting a book and a writer. Also you will be mentioned on the book's page in our online shop. You can provide a short paragraph about yourself and up to three links e.g. Amazon author page, one of your books in our shop, your web site etc.

 

You can also ask friends, family, fans and follows to sponsor. If they’re not a writer and have any other sort of enterprise they can tell us about that.   

 

How to do this: just use the PayPal button and we shall email you to ask  which book you would like to sponsor. In the unlikely event that you pick a book that someone else has already sponsored but we haven't yet updated the site, we shall suggest a similar one.