Because in the last 10 years since Zero, the mainstream publishers don’t seem to have taken the hint. “Perhaps if anything lasting comes out of the COVID period for us, it is that Repeater will be able to take advantage of a new conservatism that kicks in, a new aversion to risk. And that is partly because of the way millennials have created a new political climate that hopefully, we might have modestly influenced.” On post-COVID conservatism Whereas with Repeater now, without really changing our mission statement, our goals or our writers we work with, is solidly mainstream. “When we started Zero, it was very much an anomaly, unusual, strange, nearly esoteric on the fringes and on the margins. I am at the service of authors, in the way that I wanted publishers to be with me when I was writing.” On the shift from the esoteric to the mainstream I think my time as an author gave me a good insight not only into what it feels like to be an author but why writing is important to authors, why it is their entire universe. And then from the other side, you are having to manage many other people like that, including yourself. You understand what it is to play and want to be picked, how your entire world depends on your game. “Being a writer and a publisher is like being a player-manager in football. In our latest episode of the Joining the Dots podcast, Tariq joins us to talk about a decade in the publishing industry, an unlikely and enduring friendship with British musicians Suede, and the ever-influential Mark Fisher. An acclaimed novelist himself, the mission of both Zero and Repeater has mirrored that of Huck – to provide a platform for narratives shut out of the mainstream. As the co-founder of groundbreaking indie publishing imprints Zero and Repeater Books, Tariq Goddard has spent years championing scores of voices that may never have been heard otherwise.
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