Counter Current Publishing Novels & Stories

I stated finishing my coffee. “Who is you publisher?” he asked suddenly. “Aurelius Book Publishing, it isn't a big publishing house, but few of their books were on the bestsellers list already. It's challenging, but I would love to make it on such list as well, one day…” I sighed smiling. “I'm sure you will,” Kaisei grinned.

She dropped a folder on my desk and stood there for a moment. The tile supplier we lost last week just came back. Better terms than before. I looked up at her. There is also a counter-narrative circulating in the relevant circles, she continued, well-sourced and specific, about the company that planted the original piece and the motivations behind it. Nobody is going to print it. It is the kind of thing that moves through conversations rather than publications. But it is moving and it is doing damage in exactly the right places. She sat down at her desk and opened her laptop with the brisk efficiency of someone who had processed the good news and was already thinking about the next thing.

--- I toss the iPad onto the bench top. “What the cazzo is this?” I growl violently. “Lambert Publications. We are trying to get on top of it, but I am very certain we caught the article a bit too late. No one heard the notification on their devices when the article came out.” Riccardo replies, running a hand over his face.

Zie said and sat down in the swivel chair, there was another vacant seat next to him, I carefully walked towards the vacant chair and sit down. "Well, I'm not gonna let you wait any longer. So I assume Zie already informed you about the state of Mendez Publishing Inc. and we are trying our best to cope up and gain our loss profit this month. As a result, the publishing company will venture into an indie pub where the pub will solely publish books with the boys' love genre." Mr. Brendon explains to me but I just look at him confused. Okay? Why is he telling me their plans for their company? I'm not a marketing assistant so I'm so confused by this.

“No. I’ve been working on the rewrites of Legal Briefs all day. I’m not even dressed, why?” “Well, you can forget the rewrite. Peter Williams, the main man from Prelude Press just called and he loves the book.” “Prelude? I’ve never heard of them.” “They’re a small, very exclusive New York House. Started publishing poetry back in the early seventies, expanded to political non-fiction, then opened their fiction department about a year ago. Peter said he mailed your contracts express overnight, so throw some clothes on, or go in your underwear, I don’t care, but get your little ass over to that little post office of yours and pick up your mail.”

How did they have books unavailable anywhere but reading apps, and why didn’t her website mention their print availability? “Find a book that caught your eye?” Aidan asked. I felt his breath on my neck and knew he’d snuck up on me to lean over the back of the sofa. I ignored him and looked at the copyright area. And there it was in black and white: Published by Phantomedia. Oh, Byron and I will have words when I go home for winter break. Did his company only do a limited run on publishing the books? Are they only in very select markets? How connected to Well Thumbed is he? Does Shannon know? I saw some of her Dawn Phoenix books on the shelves, too.

"Make it ten." She had it ready by nine-thirty. Meridian Press was a midsize publisher, independent, well-regarded but perpetually undercapitalized. They had been looking for investors for the past two years, ever since their primary backer had pulled out during the pandemic. Iris's book was the biggest thing they had published in a decade, and they were scrambling to capitalize on its success while also keeping the lights on. Perfect.

I say. "Yes," she says. "The documentation," I say. "The notation is the counter," she says. "The companion record is the counter. The formal acknowledgments from Brennan and Aldis and Veth and the information-sharing arrangement. All of it is the counter." She pauses. "But the publication will reach council members in territories we have not yet reached. Councils that will read the geological resource framing and will file it before they have access to the notation." "So we publish first," I say.

Dante's POV "Dante, have you seen this?" Christopher said, walking into my office with his phone in his hand. He brought it to me and showed me a stream of counter articles that had been published by our publicity team, with evidence backing them up. I hadn't really checked to see what they were. I had just sent all the evidence to Theo and asked him to make everything go away. "Yeah, remember we talked about publishing counter articles to disparage her?" I said, looking at him, confused, wondering what the problem was.

I went back to my tiny second-floor suite of offices, sat behind my desk and turned on my laptop computer. I logged on to the internet and checked my e-mails, many of which were junk from various finance firms offering payday loans with extortionate interest well above the norm and details of how to claim back wrongly sold PPI.