Skoobebooks was started by Jerry Leach, a serial
place for authors to publish their work.
Stories of authors failing to get a publishing contract would
fill a very large volume of books indeed. From Jerry’s own
English master at school who could not get his war stories
published to some of the more famous names - Roald Dahl
and JK Rowling for example, all had their work rejected by
absolutely everyone initially and Enid Blyton even had to
marry a publisher to get her books accepted.
Many famous authors self-published their work when they
set out, including Virginia Wolf, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix
Potter and Laurence Sterne, to name a few. And it’s not just
authors from the past that have succeeded. GP Taylor an
internationally bestselling author started out by self-
publishing his first novel Shadowmancer. Within weeks he
had attracted attention from several major publishers and
ultimately secured a multiple book deal with Faber.
So we started Skoobebooks to provide an online bookstore
for both books from authors that already have publishing
contracts and for authors who want to ‘go it alone’ and
publish their books themselves.
The result is a bookstore where you can purchase pretty
much any title, author or subject from top selling names to
exciting material from new up and coming authors.
As a purchaser there are new ways to find books especially
from the self published authors using Find a Book and
creating reading profiles to suit your mood. You can sort by
Author or Title and display your results as thumbnails or
lists for quick selection.
We encourage everyone to discuss books they are reading
so that the readers decide what is good and what is not
rather than editors in their ivory towers.
The site is still in its infancy and there is much development
work to do over the coming months. We have many areas
we will develop but most importantly we want to create a
great book browsing experience so that you can find and
purchase new and exciting books to read.
