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By: David Blaine (Registered IP 207.69.137.29) on 01-08-2007 06:36

I think that on one hand the underground, outlaw, whatever you want to call the small press, acts as a sort of farm club for the mainstream. If you publish in the small press and do very well, you might get picked up by a larger press. On another hand, it's not a farm club at all because many writers don't want to work with a big press. They don't want someone telling them what and how to write so that it will sell, they want to do their own thing, period.    The names change and so do the faces, some move on to bigger gigs and some pass on, but the small press was always here and always will be. It depends so much on people who are willing to "write to live" as opposed to write for a living, and to patrons of the arts.     There have always been patrons of the arts, but I think a modern day example would be Brian Fugget, hocking his house so he can print Tainted Coffee Press publications in his garage. That's putting your money where your mouth is. I'm sure there are many others like him. They are the small press. Kudos. Sorry I missed this round table.

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