I’m thrilled to have taken on a lead role in one of the best small Indie publishers in Cornwall this year. And I’m looking forward to continuing the amazing success the press has had over the last few years under the leadership of Dr Paul Taylor-McCartney.

Hermitage Press,  has had great success with its recent publications, one of which, ‘Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections’, produced in collaboration with Cornwall National Landscape, won the Literary Fiction category of the infamous Holyer an Gof Publishers’ Awards this year!

It’s an exciting time for the press as it evolves into a more comprehensive home for Cornish Writers with the inclusion of the digital directory of services to help writers from The Writers Collective website, a catalogue of Cornish Authors from the integration of the Cornwall Writers website and the complete shop of Cornish Authors titles from the Cornish Authors Bookshop.  This last integration will also catapult the Press into the realm of Specialist Bookselllers.

A lot is planned for 2026 including the paperback version of ‘Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections’, a new Cornwall Writers anthology of Short Stories, along with the announcement of a hybrid scheme to help self published authors and the launch of a new Indie Publishers Festival in Falmouth on May 16th & 17th 2026./div>