The Monday Creative Forum has been active for six weeks now, with growing interest.

Next Monday David Reiter presents Black Books Publishing.

I’m posting about David here as we have a long history together. He published my book Seen and unseen: a century of stories from Asia and the Pacific.

David is not only a publisher, but also an award-winning text and digital artist having won the Western Australian Premiers Award for his work twice and also the Queensland Premier’s Award.

As CEO of Interactive Publications Pty Ltd his company is at the forefront of digital technologies in Australia and publishes under 4 award-winning imprints:

 Interactive Press;

Glass House Books;

IP Kidz and,

Digital Publishing Centre.

David gives talks on all aspects of independent publishing and is the author of Your eBook Survival Kit now in its fourth edition.

In describing Black Books Publishing David explains that this work, his most recent novel, uses interactivity as “call-outs” to distract the reader constructively from the storyline. He writes, “The novel is a satire about editing and independent publishing, based on my personal writing history from my university work where I abandoned a PhD dissertation on DH Lawrence to take up a position as Technical Editor with the Canadian Forces at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta.”

David continues, “The fantasy element of the work has DH Lawrence as a kind of nudging Beatrice, urging the main character Dylan Cashew to return to work on the PhD. Meanwhile, Dylan gets married, accepts a creative writing teaching job and eventually founds the fictional publishing house Black Books Publishing. urging the main character Dylan Cashew to return to work on the PhD. Meanwhile, Dylan gets married, accepts a creative writing teaching job and eventually founds the fictional publishing house Black Books Publishing. An inspiration for the novel, and for Dylan, was the BBC Series Black Books, starring Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey. Our Dylan becomes a reluctant and somewhat cynical publisher. An interesting aside of the venture is that Dylan sets up his own Facebook site and posts in his own persona – so credibly that several people contact him online wishing to submit a manuscript.”

Some of David’s other recent works