Wyrd Goat Press, LLC started selfishly. My husband and I were already published authors in the ‘legacy’ or ‘traditional’ arena and we wanted to self-publish work that didn’t fit into the traditional market at the time. Also, traditional publishing is slow, in that an individual author may be limited to one book a year, depending on a publisher’s schedule and size. We don’t always, but we can write faster than that. The third factor was that many publishers, in their boilerplate contracts, have non-compete clauses. For some of our projects, it would be against our own self-interest as authors to sign such contracts. Finally, as an artist and designer, I was starting to get regular work on small projects for authors in my circle. 

It was time to form a business that works for authors at their pace, and that honors their aesthetics, so they can reach beyond the limitations of ‘normal’ publishing models.