Renard Press

31/10/2025

Happy Hallowe’en to all, and to all a good fright…

Getting in the mood with some fiction. How many of these have you read? 🤔

Let Mary Shelley set the scene…

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Am I, then, immortal? This is a question which I have asked myself, by day and night, for now three hundred and three years, and yet cannot answer it. I detected a grey hair amidst my brown locks this very day – that surely signifies decay. Yet it may have remained concealed there for three hundred years – for some persons have become entirely white-headed before twenty years of age.

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so wearisome to me. For ever! Can it be? to live for ever! I have heard of enchantments in which the victims were plunged into a deep sleep, to wake, after a hundred years, as fresh as ever: I have heard of the Seven Sleepers – thus to be immortal would not be so burdensome: but, oh! The weight of never-ending time – the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! How happy was the fabled Nourjahad! But to my task.

30/10/2025

The lovely folks at CMP Books have just sent this gorgeous video of one of our latest books swinging from screen to book. (We’ve added some technical jargon to explain the process.)

(I think Gertrude Stein would appreciate the salon jazz, but might be somewhat baffled by the modern process…)

29/10/2025

In her witty new book, Ann Morgan asks readers to examine their own reading habits and turn them on their head.

29/10/2025

This month for our feature, where our authors recommend gems in our backlist, writer Clare Colvin tells us a bit about short stories, and what inspired her collection Stone Children.

https://renardpress.com/news-item/stone-children-and-other-stories/

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Stone Children was recommended by Simon Mundy, who writes: ‘Waiting For Music was my book which, among other stimuli, drew together many of the points where my poetry and music were inseparable. Like me, fellow Hay Press author Clare Colvin has spent much of her career writing about music. When I think of her fiction, though, the abiding image is of mirrors. They pervade her stories, sometimes showing difficult truth, at other times reassuring distortion. Her characters are often catching themselves and others in reflections that take them in unexpected directions. Clare has such a keen eye but her people are handled with kindness too, so she is my recommendation for the shuffling of the shelves.’

29/10/2025

‘Independent publishing is facing an existential crisis’: illustrated.

27/10/2025

Something rather exciting is coming in three short weeks – a beautiful collection of excerpts, poems, short stories, scenes from all the authors we’ve published in our first five years.

How better to crown five years of pushing boundaries, daring to be different, than producing such a memento – elegant and handsome, but also broad in content and creativity, inspiring and thought provoking.

All proceeds go to our Read It Forward scheme, raising funds for .

https://renardpress.com/books/renard-press-five-years-an-anthology/

27/10/2025

Aspirations.

26/10/2025

ICYMI yesterday we took the difficult decision to ask for help. Our bank had an admin error and paid our bills twice.

📚 In 24h you ordered £750 of books – which covers the first print bill this week and will go a long way towards reassuring us while we deal with the bank. Here’s 2/3 of what you ordered – they’ll be on their way shortly! Slightly overwhelmed, immensely relieved, hugely grateful. All I can say is thank you. Hope you love these books – these particular beauties are even more of a miracle than usual! 🧡

🍌 Banana, as is custom, for scale. Fairtrade, ofc. 💚🐸

25/10/2025

, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…

Reader, we need you. This morning we woke to the extraordinary news that our bank accidentally duplicated several of our payments that were scheduled to be paid – ‘we’re sorry for any inconvenience.’ As you no doubt know, small presses, like many small businesses, are run on a knife edge, and as our print reps will attest, every transaction is a haggle, a struggle to ensure survival. To be clear, this will not kill us off, but we do need to quickly find around £1,000 to pay our next print bills on time. It’s a hard time for so many, we know, and we do not ask this lightly, but if you’re planning on buying books for Christmas presents, it would make the world of difference if you headed to our site today and bought a book. 🧡

22/10/2025