The Authors
Wolfenden is proud to introduce the writers whom have had their books published with us.

Harold Stephens

Mario Machi

Doug Ingold

Les Harcus

WOLFENDEN PUBLISHING

It seems these days one needs a "niche" before they can succeed in any field. Publishing is the same. Publishers have to concentrate on niches: children's books, mysteries, supernatural, histories, biographies, self-help books, health books and the likes. At Wolfenden, with an office in Bangkok, we tend to slant towards books about the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, but we do not limit ourselves to these areas alone. The writing, regardless of the locale, is the important thing.

The world is changing drastically, and so is the publishing business with it. Only but a few of the big publishing houses of the past remain. It's not only the publishers but it's the publishing giant personalities as well, names like Maxwell Perkins and Bennett Serf, literary leaders in the field who had nurtured writers and stood behind them and their works. William Maxwell Perkins was the famous editor of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway , Thomas Wolfe , Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , and others, at the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons during the first half of the 20th Century. And it was Bennett Serf, then the head of Random House Publishers, that went to court and won a suit against the U.S. Government when it banned "Ulysses" by James Joyce, Ireland's greatest novelist. Joyce's writing, as we know, changed the course of English literature.

The demise of many publishing houses is due to both changes in the entertainment industry and the rising costs of production, everything from printing to shipping. Shipping and mailing costs, for example, have put many magazines out of business, and now publishing houses as well.

Other publishers have been bought up media giants that control radio and TV and now the Internet. They call it consolidation when it actually means monopolizing.

As a result those big publishing house that remain are interested mainly in blockbusters, books that will earn them profits. That doesn't mean that good writers are not out there, wanting to be heard. They are. In view of this, small publishing houses have begun to appear, and writers have turned to self-publishing.

Wolfenden Publishing is one of these latter-day publishers, striving to get its writers heard.