Introducing Hathi House

It turns out that one of the joys of trying to self publish a book is all the other stuff!

What page colour will you be using? How many ISBN numbers do you require? Do you have a website? What is your publisher name?

Thankfully, I have been guided to the answers to #1 & #2, and technophobe me has been coached to achieve #3, by my very patient daughter – which left the question of #4.

When you buy ISBN numbers, you are asked what your publishing name is. I didn’t have one, nor any clue as to what I should choose – clearly ‘Penguin’ had been taken!

Casting around the dusty corners of my brain, I came up with Olive Tree Publishing, inspired by the fact that there have been olive trees visible from each place that I have sat to write Who Stole Grandma? – Andalusia, Languedoc and Smethwick, yes Smethwick! But, it turns out that Olive Tree is a popular name in publishing.

In mild desperation, now casting around our living room, my eyes took in the 200 elephant ornaments on our picture rail, ours is literally the elephant house, so Hathi House – hathi being Punjabi for elephant.

In time I hope that Hathi House will be home to several books. I’ve created pages here to outline the different working projects that are fluttering around the bits of my brain that actually are functioning.