Welcome to Backword Books

Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | Posted in: Home

Backword Books is a collective of self-published authors.  We’re not quite a literary press because all of us use different services to publish (Lightning Source, Lulu, iUniverse, and CreateSpace to name a few).  In short, we’re a unique collective  that has yet to be done on any large scale, using a medium that is losing stigma and gaining credibility.

We all believe in our writing, and it’s been tested by those who know well: readers and reviewers. We also believe in the potential of self-publishing on the whole.  In one sense, we’re refugees from an increasingly competitive landscape in traditional publishing, but we also don’t think of self-publishing as a type of defeat.  Quite the opposite.

There’s strength in numbers and Backword Books hopes to create a new model for self-publishers to reach readers: a combination of self-publishing and the traditional literary press.

So please check out our books, check out the blog, and help spread the word, as we believe Backword Books is another step forward in the new paradigm of publishing.