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A bit about Scribes Valley Publishing

Well, we've done it. We've created a BLOG. Seems like everybody has one these days, so we've jumped on the bandwagon and we're out of the chute. First, a bit about Scribes Valley Publishing . We're a small, independent publisher started in 2003, and based in Knoxville, Tennessee. We were founded on the idea that most "big" publishing houses have lost sight of their original purpose: to produce great, entertaining works while giving exposure to writers who have something to say. Instead, they concentrate all efforts on large profit margins and handle only those authors with the best commercial demographics. If you didn't have a bestseller last year, they won't even look at you. Which leaves us to wonder how many writing geniuses have been left in the dust, their aspirations squelched, because they didn't have the right agent, didn't know the cousin of a friend who married the daughter of a publisher, or weren't given the encouragement to