Thank you for the feedback. first in addressing how to get in contact with me, the best way at this moment in time is to private message me. We (my friend and I) are not asking for commitments we are simply trying to probe to see if there is enough lit. out there to justify what we want to do, or if not if there are enough authors who are willing to write the lit. How this came about. I read a lot, until about 2 years ago i did not read books written before 1920 (nothing not even required reading books in High School). I read Ayn Rand for the first time two years ago and cant get enough (I think I now own and have read everything that has been published concerning her works). My friend is the same way he loves to read. The two of us quite frankly are tired of reading trash. I myself am an author with no little skill. I have never tried to get any of my work published because I do not write for the enjoyment of others. The tipping point came when over this summer I have tried to find youth novels for my 15 year old niece that were good, and also would help develop her morally(fiction is the best teacher). This added to a conversation I had with my friend about "Objectivist Culture" if such a thing can be said to exist finally lead us to the conclusion that there should be a publishing house and eventually cultural group to promote Objectivist Art. Though Rand uses the term Romantic to define her particular type of Art, Objectivist Art is a type of Romantic Art. The difference between what I define as Romantic Objectivist Art, and Romantic Art is that R.O.A. promotes a particular set of values, it would be the difference between Romantic Christian Art, or Romantic Jewish Art, though the subject of the art may not be a religious theme the values represented by the particular belief system are present. What my friend and I want to do is to start with Lit. and gather under one roof (so to speak) R.O.A. so that those who enjoy that type of Art do not have to hunt 40 different publishers to find one book in ten thousand to find what they want. We also want to develop not just adult Lit. but child and youth Lit as well. What I consider to be one of the greatest mistakes of Authors who are Objectivists is ignoring this category of readers. From personal experience does anyone else have a clue how difficult it is to undo the crap which young children learn in fiction? The altruist immorality, the destruction of the mind, and of the ego. Don't make the mistake of thinking I am suggesting something on the scale of We the Living or Atlas Shrugged for children, no something more simple is what is required at that age, however why do we want to allow the enemy free reign on the mind of children? The only way to have Galts Gulch is to change the culture and we need to not just try and change adult culture. This is why we need authors of different genera's as well as different age groups. As fair warning if there are enough people interested we are not going to publish just anything by anyone who says "hey I am an objectivist here is my work", its got to be good. as to amounts and categories. This is something that we are using as a general rule of thumb, we would like to have about that when we do the first release, ideally we would have much more and than do new releases every few months but we are not yet sure IF it would be worth it to get this off the ground. This is more a feeler like "Is there anyone else out there". I am continuing research to find out what it will cost and what is needed if there are enough people interested, however it comes back to basic economics, supply and demand. If no one is interested why waste the time and actually set up the company? This is exactly why i did not say "Send me your story" or give contact details. I want to take a measure first. Are there enough customers for what I want to sell? on a final note. We want to do the publication digitally for the most part and would probably only produce certain books in paper and hard back. There are a few reasons for this the first being that while i do not ever see physical books going away i do see them being replaced by digital copies. The second is cost. Not only would it allow us to attract customers with lower prices for the product (due to elimination of a massive overhead) but it would also allow us to pay a larger portion to the Author (due to cut back in overhead). This is something that my friend and I go back and forth on because there are downsides and benefits to digital over physical. As far as the physical vs digital debate (to give everyone an idea where we are at) All of the childrens books would need to have physical copies (added to the digital counter part) no body wants a child drooling on their ipad. the teen books at least a portion would need physical counter parts. As to the adult books only the best would have physical copies. IF someone really wanted a physical copy of a book we would do a Print on Demand type of thing. As I said this is not off the ground this is a feeler is there anyone who would be interested in giving this a shot? I don't want to invest who knows how many hours and end up empty handed at the end. My friend and I are developing this in our spare time, if there are enough people interested we will devote much more time and have a full plan ready within a month to present to those who are interested.
