Killing two birds with one stone: Read a good book by a new author - and at the same time keep a handy stock of presents to give away.

Why the world needs pioneer readers

About the publisher

Pioneer Readers is a part of
 
which exists to provide opportunities for first-time writers.

Other ways Fygleaves can help
pioneer writers

We publish the best entries in our short story competition

You can submit an extract from your novel for feedback from online readers

Read our writers' tips

See our submissions policy if you have written a novel

Without pioneers...
nothing would have been discovered!

 

 

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Authors revealing their leaves to the world

 

All 5photostory competition entrants are entitled to discounted membership of our pioneer readers group.

 

This is the age of the pioneer

Why the world needs pioneer readers

Buy 5 copies of our new novel for only £39.50 including UK postage and packing: more details

As a pioneer reader you will receive discounted copies of our novels by new authors: keep one copy and pass the others on as presents.

If you want to see more novelists given a chance, join us

Whose novels do we publish?

We are committed to publishing work of high quality that will be of interest to readers of general adult fiction.

Any writer who has not had a novel published is eligible to submit their work to us for this project, which is our way of doing something to redress the imbalance stacked against first-time authors. We plan to repeat this process and find another new novelist in 2008.

Released in Sept 2007:

Despite Losing it on Finkle Street

by Samantha Priestley

 

Rachel Murdoch is living a lonely village life in the Lake District in the shadow of the memory of her grandparents. When she finds a young man who connects with her, she wonders if she may have at last found the new start she is looking for, despite the opposition she faces from his family.

But is Will hiding a secret, or is it just that the emotional holes in his life go to a depth that will stretch her beyond her limits? It is up to Rachel to put together the pieces of his past, and to decide whether she is still committed enough to stand by him.

If you want to see more novelists given a chance, join us

Somebody somewhere needs to be reading the unknowns so that new novelists can be found and given space to breathe.

So join us as we find debut authors whose work is worth reading.