In this case, Braak and Holland are perfectly welcome to speak for me: they summed the situation up nicely.

The only thing I’ll add is that, in the case of Facsimile, I’m not sure waiting around was an option at all. The book deals with technology that’s currently in development and issues that are in flux. What I had to say in Facsimile was meant to be said now, and it may or may not be relevant five years from now.

From my perspective, the publishing industry’s still sorting itself out, and while that’s going on, Print On Demand has more legs than it did in the past. It’s the democratization of the form for good and ill, much like the music industry – everyone’s trying to figure out how to get their material out there. This is one way – so, being that it can’t possibly hurt us, we’re trying it.

If you read our books, and you like them, we will happily enjoy some word-of-mouth advertising. So…tell friends. Friends with money. Who read.

(If, on the other hand, you do NOT like them, then now, naturally, is the time for respectful silence.)

And since I am naturally impatient and feckless, and because I’d rather work on making new books than spend my time trying to convince important people to read the old ones, I figured I’d sell them here.

Subsequent to that, I figured, “Well, large publishers have to start out as small publishers,” and thus: Threat Quality Press.

It’s clear that the people behind TQP are literate, but literate doesn’t translate to literary – it can, but doesn’t necessarily. I haven’t read a sample chapter of any of the books, something I’m going to remedy forthwith, but really, if these books are genuinely good – not in the sense of “classic literature” but even in the sense of “a really good read” — then why not publish through a larger publisher?

THESE! Customer reviews of The Translated Man from Amazon.com!

Or THIS! Exceptionally positive mention from John Rogers, executive producer of TV’s LEVERAGE, in which he says:

There was a day reading this that I wanted to be able to read faster, because I wanted it in my brain faster.

THIS! — a lengthy and ALSO POSITIVE review over at io9.com, which is probably the most important speculative fiction website that is currently available to read.

And now, a FANTASTIC REVIEW of Erin Snyder’s For Love of Children, and a SECOND REVIEW of Snyder’S new novel Facsimile over at literary blog Book Noise.