Contact Us
From August 6 2010 we will be carrying out major renovation work on our new crofthouse (aka the Two Ravens Press Global Headquarters). For the first month of these renovations, until early September, our ability to communicate will be sporadic with limited email and telephone access. and we're not likely to be able to answer urgent enquiries as rapidly as we usually do.
Please note that we are a small press, operating only part-time and with just the two of us working (for no salary) from home. We also run a croft and have our own writing projects. And so we're not in the office every day, we're not always around to answer the telephone, and we're not always at the computer or able to drop everything to respond immediately to requests for information. We live in an area where there is no mobile telephone reception at all for several miles. Given that, we are professionals, and if you have a genuine enquiry about Two Ravens Press or our authors, we'll do our best to help as soon as we can. But if you need to contact us, then unless it is an urgent media or trade enquiry, PLEASE USE EMAIL rather than telephoning us.
Please do NOT telephone us to offer sales or services of any kind. You are welcome to email us and if we are interested we will follow up with you. If you don't get a reply to your email, it means we're not interested. Please don't continue to bug us or bombard us with unwanted emailed 'newsletters'. We get so many unsolicited offers of services that we have a policy not to respond unless we're interested. Otherwise we'd do little else!
See notes below for information if you are a freelancer, looking for employment or placement opportunities, wishing to submit a manuscript, or if you want to contact an author.
Please address all general, media and rights enquiries to:
Sharon Blackie
Two Ravens Press Ltd
Taigh nam Fitheach
26 Breanish
Uig
Isle of Lewis
HS2 9HB
Tel 01851 672776
sharon[at]tworavenspress[dot]com
Please address all trade/sales enquiries to:
David Knowles
(address as above)
davidknowles[at]tworavenspress[dot]com
IF YOU ARE THINKING OF SUBMITTING A MANUSCRIPT...
Our list is now full into 2012, and we're not currently accepting submissions from new writers pending a major relocation and refocus of our business. We're sorry, but because of the relocation and associated house renovations we'll be unable to respond to any unsolicited enquiries received for the next six months or so i.e. during the period of time for which this notice remains here. We suggest you check back no sooner than October 2010.
EMPLOYMENT AND FREELANCERS
We are a very small press and are unable to offer any kind of temporary or full-time employment opportunities or student placements.
We do all of our design, art, typesetting, editorial, and proof-reading work in-house, and because we have yet to pay ourselves or make anything resembling a profit from our publishing activities, unfortunately we are unable to afford to employ freelance workers.
Because of this, and because we are so small, we are unable to respond to the constant flow of enquiries we get from freelancers, especially in the editing and proofreading fields.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH TWO RAVENS PRESS AUTHORS
Please note that if you send correspondence to an author c/o Two Ravens Press we will not forward it to the author unless you include full postage and packing for onward mailing within the UK, or from the UK to overseas if the author is based elsewhere. Please put your correspondence to the author inside a stamped envelope, so that all we need to do is address it and put it into a mailbox.
We do not under any circumstances, whether properly stamped or not, pass on to authors junk mail or unsolicited requests for funding/donations for any cause, no matter how seemingly worthy, even (or especially) those with handwritten envelopes to make us think it's personal correspondence ...
