Crowdsourcing + Slush pile = Crowdslush!
Giving our readers a seat at the editorial table made its way to our founding principles very early on in our founding process.
While we are actively working on acquiring rights to works from across South Asia, we want to hear from our readers. Is there a book that you’ve heard about from your grandparents, an enthusiastic teacher proficient in your mother tongue, friends who can read in many languages, or even a book that somehow has always been on your to-read list?
Help add to our crowdsourced slush pile!
- Email your suggestion and our editorial team will aim to review your suggestions in 4 weeks. If you don’t hear back from us in 4 weeks, feel free to give us a nudge.
- Readers' suggestions will either get a thumbs up 👍, which means we will move it to our ‘attempt-to-acquire queue’ OR readers suggestions will get a Vulcan salute 🖖, which is a way for us to say thank you for taking the time to submit a suggestion, but we are unable to take on that title (and as a nod to Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations from Star Trek)
Please bear in mind that we are a micropress and can realistically select 2–3 titles to publish every year. We will do our best to acquire suggested titles that we feel are a good fit for our mission.
If many readers get behind the same title, we will certainly try our best to add it to our acquisition queue!
If a crowdslush title does move into active book development, we will give the reader a formal shoutout in the book’s colophon!
Email your suggestions to crowdslush@sodabuddhibooks.com.