👨🏾💻 We rebuilt our website this week because there is a moment when you’re building anything, when the question changes. You stop asking whether it looks right and start asking whether it works. Ours was this: if Harriet Bush walked in, could she find her own story?
Harriet is the protagonist of Love and Happiness; a trans-racial adoptee in North West England in the 1970s and 80s. Her story is not a case study. It is hers. The test was whether a reader who already knows that life could find the book quickly; without being made to feel they were the subject of someone else’s education.
The same question applied to Masaka Madeda, whose poem is the spine of I Zig and I Zag. One sequence. 100 pages. Does the website give this epic the space it needs?
We are a small press. Based in Tre Taliesin, population a few hundred. We are not competing with Faber. What we are doing is publishing books FOR marginalised communities; not about them for a mainstream reading list. The website starts from that assumption. The reader it imagines is already inside the experience.
Print and ebook, direct from us: m2mbooks.com
Small steps forwards often make the biggest difference. 🙂