Keeping the Door is back in business

Hi everyone,

just wanted a pen a brief note to let everyone know that Keeping the Door is now back in business again after a four-month hiatus that lasted three months more than I originally planned.

The simple reason for the break was that in January this year, I left my job as the News Editor of Australian technology publication ZDNet.com.au to start my own new media startup, LeMay & Galt Media. You can read more about the company on its website.

I love fantasy and science fiction books, but it’s a bit hard (at least in the short term) to make much of a living from a small website writing about their authors and reviewing the books themselves.

So my first task with LeMay & Galt Media has been to launch a new Australian technology publication, Delimiter, which has a business model of licensing its content to other publishers on a monthly basis, similar to the way AAP or Reuters does.

Delimiter has already been relatively successful — enough so that I now have an office and have employed my first, part-time staff member. So I am now able to start to pay a bit more attention to Keeping the Door.

Some things around the site have changed with a re-design (let me know if you see anything out of place, it’s still a bit rough around the edges!) and the site itself is now owned and published by LeMay & Galt Media.

But by and large it will now re-commence operations, publishing a handful of news stories about the sci-fi/fantasy book scene each week, and regular reviews.

To kick off this week we’ve just published a review of Robin Hobb’s new book Dragon Haven, which we absolutely loved. Go out and buy it if you’re a Hobb fan. And if you’re not a Hobb fan, what the hell is wrong with you? Go out and buy Assassin’s Apprentice, or borrow a dog-eared copy from one of your wiser friends :)

Anyway, it’s good to be back, and I look forward to getting up to speed with the SFF book world. I have quite some reading to do!

Cheers,

Renai LeMay

Publisher, Keeping the Door
Proprietor, LeMay & Galt Media