Roger Morris is both an accomplished author of historical crime fiction (who had the quite blistering idea, inter alia, of making Dostoyevsky’s Porfiry into the star of his own dedicated series of St. Petersburg investigations), and an asture observer of current trends in publishing, to which topic he devotes a section of his website. There he has conducted and posted a number of highly interesting interviews with people who have a professional stake in the e-publishing game, and recently he added me to that list with a Q&A about Faber Finds and related matters. I hope you may find most of this discussion diverting, but if I had to pick out a ‘money quote’ for my own purposes it might well be this:
“In respect of personal taste – I have taken on one or two titles that are especially dear to me, but mainly Finds is not about my personal taste: it’s about the myriad tastes of readers out there. I will happily publish anything that seems to be of real distinction, in whatever genre…”