About Us
Left to right: Gill James, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Virginia McKenna and Nicola Rouch
Picture taken at Guardian Hay Festival June 4th 2010 at the Gentle Footprints Launch
Bridge House Publishing was conceived by Editor Gill James in 2008 and even though we are a new publisher we have to date published 15 titles (May 2011).
It all began with our first publication, Making Changes, an advent calendar of stories, in November 2008 which was more of a creative single project that escalated!
Realising the potential and market for well written, innovative anthologies Gill brought on board Publicist, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt. Debz is also a writer.
In February 2009, Bridge House Publishing LLP was born . It is a fully fledged new publishing company specialising in anthologies showcasing both new and established writing talent.
Bridge House understands the importance of giving new writers a chance. In a competitive market anthologies give authors and readers alike an opportunity. Authors can reach out to a wider audience and readers can discover new and varied writers to look out for in the future.
From 2011 all titles will support a charity!
We are nominating a charity each year and the chosen charity for 2010 was Born Free supported with a collection of animal stories for adults. Gentle Footprints was launched atthe Guardian Hay Festival by Virginia McKenna and some of the authors. Also featured on The Books Show on Sky Arts.
The 2011 charity is Children's Hospices UK with a children's book called Hipp-O-Dee-Doo-Dah full of uplifting stories for junior school children! We are also supporting the Caron Keating Foundation with our angel collection Voices of Angels.