bookstreet aims to publish creative writers, writers who would normally have real problems becoming better known – often for reasons of style, fashion or content.

The fact is that most writers are constrained, unable to express their most creative ideas, by their publishers and thus produce work often of the publisher’s choosing, with the publisher’s interests mainly in mind.

bookstreet aims to change all that.

Keep in mind that many, now iconic, dynamic, figures were unable to publish their work due to social and ‘moral’ constraints – not only the great writers of the more distant past like Lewis Carroll, but in the last fifty years: Nabakov-Lolita, Henry Miller, the youthful Lawrence Durrell, James Joyce, Jean Genet, Virginia Wolfe – to mention just a few of the vast gallery of writers almost denied the opportunity to publish their work-you will know many more who were never published but rightly deserved to be so. And then there were the many who were published through contacts in the literary world (Greene, Waugh, Maugham) and a vast gallery of self-publishing authors without whose labours and purses you would not now be able to access (Virginia Wolfe, Choderlos de Laclos, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Shakespeare, de Sade - literally too many to mention). Writing should be about loving ideas and their communication, not about whom you know and their attitudes or commercial requirements. Writers know that.

Finally, you know that as authors, you no longer have the time to consider serious written work as a leisure time pursuit; in the modern scheme of things we have all to try to make an income, however small, from our labours.

bookstreet.net is about these facts.

Writers who are accepted for publication by bookstreet will have their books listed and easily accessible through www.bookstreet.net which itself contains a library of choices about books for the world of the world wide web. Accessed by readers, agents, and other publishers, as you know, the world wide web itself has many hundreds of millions of visitors each day, which means that books from bookstreet will be accessed, sampled and read on the screens of many millions of subscribers who for one reason or another do not have access to a library or bookshop.

bookstreet aims thus to bring a High Street of variety in published books to subscribers wherever they are, offering choices to millions of people and by-the-by opening doors of opportunity to authors who would otherwise never have the chance to be heard.

Our books will be sampled (as fragments) all over the world on screen, cannot be copied, but can be bought from us as emails, Word or Adobe PDF files, in other formats, and as CD’s. De-Luxe, signed editions can be bought direct from us and will be in colour, carefully designed and specially typographed full editions, which have been approved by publishers which deal direct with us, or published by bookstreet. CDs are priced at £5 each, emails of Word, or Adobe PDF or other ebook files starting at £1 each. Authors receive 50% of all income from their works, making them far better off than the usual 5-10% offered by ordinary publishers once their books have been printed and published. Theses' and research works have differing prices.

Upon acceptance by bookstreet writers are expected to contract for an initial period of five years. During this period bookstreet will act as an agent, creating introductions to other publishers and related agencies for the writer upon consultation. Our aim is to open-up the world of opportunities for all writers, whatever their language, creed or situation, wherever and whoever they are.

Full information is contained within our Author’s Contract.