A few years ago, I became interested in 19th century literature. I started collecting children’s magazines from the United Kingdom which were published in the second half of the century, mostly magazines published after 1870.
As I seem to be the only person interested in that kind of literature – at least as a collector – I was able to buy a considerable number of magazines at a very cheap price. As I bought and read those magazines, I went from “This is interesting stuff” to “Somebody should publish some of those stories from those magazines” to “I guess I could publish them” to “I should publish them myself” to “OK, I’ll take out a trade licence for book publishing, start my own publishing business, and actually do it. I’ll publish some of the stories, poems, and puzzles from those magazines.”
And here we are.
I’ll publish the first book in the second half of 2026, via print-on-demand. I’m not sure yet whether I can afford to finance a small print run, or whether I’ll publish E-books or audiobooks. I don’t know yet in which territories I’ll make the book available, other than in the US. I’d like to make the book available to readers in Austria, where I live and where my publishing business is located. I’ll definitely use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing plattform, but it won’t be the only plattform I’ll use. I’d love, love, love, love, love to sell my books to libraries – public libraries, as well as school libraries.
I’ll spend the first half of 2026 figuring out the logistics of book production and distribution; in the second half of 2026, I’ll put my plans into action.