My name is Jacob Ross I work among other
things I work as associate editor at
Peepal Tree Press with Jeremy
pointing who is the chief editor and
Hannah banister who is the operations
manager of the organization my principal
role I suppose apart from just keeping
keeping them company is to select and
discuss with Jeremy books that come in
for publications through a website
facility we have called submit able and
we do get quite a lot of submissions we
the Peepal Tree Press publishes work
predominantly from the Caribbean by
Caribbean writers but also they do work
by British based writers it's a press
which focuses largely on the minority
ethnic community as described or as
named in this country although in the
car abandoned not ethnic or minority the
the majority in fact so yeah and it's an
enormous responsibility because we're
talking here about people who would have
spent years writing a book and us having
to make decisions about that book I mean
in a way making decisions about their
writing careers I suppose what we look
for fiction which is serious engaging it
could be funny in fact we like you know
be like humor and innovative books that
not only there are not only simply
novels but novels which interrogate in a
serious way ask important questions
about
society about self about characters and
so on people troopers also happens to be
my publisher at least they have
published last two books that I have
done late the latest being a collection
of short stories called tell no one
about this and prior to that a novel
called the bone readers which surprised
me by doing much better than I thought
it's a book that I took out I take
whatever I do I take seriously but
that's a book which I probably didn't
take seriously enough but it has done a
lot out there for me in terms of
engaging reader interest and reader
response and I'm grateful for that.
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