Black Books Publishing

by David P Reiter

Overview

PhD student Dylan Cashew abandons his thesis on D. H. Lawrence for the uncertain world of top secret aerospace editing, college teaching and then independent publishing. Dogged and even mentored by Lawrence and others from parallel Dimensions, Dylan finds himself immersed in a publishing venture that, with aid of his PR-savvy wife, interjections from the Internet, and a bottomless supply of scotch, nearly goes under before he receives an offer from a Chinese conglomerate that may be too good to refuse.

If you’re an author, published or unpublished, or wished you were one – or someone who’s worked in publishing, or wished you could – this book is for you. (Have we missed anyone?!)

This is David P. Reiter’s latest sortie into the satiricsphere of digital narrative. His having won two Western Australian Premier’s Awards for Timelord Dreaming and My Planets Reunion Memoir has done nothing to curb his rash flirtation with innovation. Nearly 200 Internet “call-outs” will tempt you away from the central storyline. Can you resist?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925231670
Publisher:	Digital Publishing Centre
Publication date:	03/07/2018
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

PART 1: EXODUS 1

Chapter 1: What Have I Done? 3

Chapter 2: Flights with a Difference 11

Chapter 3: His Kingdom for a Teaching Post 19

Chapter 4: Those Who Can’t, Write… 32

Chapter 5: Voice in an Almost Wilderness 50

Chapter 6: Get Me to Your Church on Time 65

Chapter 7: Grafting a Thickened Skin 81

Chapter 8: Colder Inside Than Out 96

PART 2: GENESIS 109

Chapter 9: From Germ to an Idea 111

Chapter 10: Criss-crosses and Crossroads 130

Chapter 11: Ruby in the Rough 143

PART 3: NUMBERS 153

Chapter 12: Calling in Even More Favours 155

Chapter 13: Kings and Versifiers 171

PART 4: LEVITICUS 189

Chapter 14: Rules of E-ngagement 191

Chapter 15: Divest and Diversify 205

PART 5: GENESIS YET AGAIN 235

Chapter 16: All that Glisters 237

Chapter 17: Waiting for the Drones 254

Chapter 18: But a Whimper 274

Editorial Reviews

This is a thrilling fast-paced satire of life in the publishing industry that must now navigate multiple universes, consider colliding galaxies, and take instruction from guides such as D. H. Lawrence. All this while the text leaps from Biblical frameworks to Internet content, giving a free and complex reading experience that takes in the irrelevancies of time and the breath-taking variations of dimension. You read some text and then you are guided to a short video – sheer delight. It might be music; or the text of Eleven Strange Facts You Didn’t Know – about something; or loud typing pool background effects; or some detailed information on space-time. Be amazed.

– Carmel Bird, Winner, 2016 Patrick White Literary Award

If only independent publishing was as enjoyable as this novel about it! David Reiter proves himself to be an accomplished comic writer with an incisive satirical eye. Black Books Publishing is darkly funny.

– David Musgrave, novelist, poet and founder, Puncher & Wattman publishers

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