The Publishing Hut

Between the publishing giants sharing the cake, the passionate small publishers pushing forward against all odds to defend their existence, and the myriad of self-publishing players fighting over the crumbs at the bottom of the plate, the book industry is saturated. There isn't much space left. Fortunately, we don't claim any.

We have no ambition to build vast offices or extend our warehouses. A tree at the edge of a forest will suffice, where we can build a simple cabin to meet, exchange our ideas, our dreams and our disappointments. A convivial place, in the intimacy of a canopy, where we can escape the world for a few moments, watch it walk on its head from up high, pretend it doesn't exist, only to return to it charged with energy and inspiration and try, at our infinitesimal scale, to participate in its transformation.

A clandestine, secret place, where it feels good to hide with one's own. A place that brings back gusts of childhood. That makes you want to have hiding places, secret codes, to stash sweets, matches and smoking wood, to organize nocturnal meetings far from the parents' gaze, to rediscover the intoxicating sensations of first kisses. A place where the norms are those we choose, and not those imposed by the dull and boring adults who populate the world below. Let us take out our pocket knives, grip these vines, try to climb ever higher, at the risk of falling, let us display our disinterest for established codes and industry norms, even if, at nightfall, we must return home and face that authority that exasperates us. At least, we will sleep with our heads full of dreams of freedom.

"Facing the palaces, villas and publishing houses, we offer a simple cabin."

Facing the palaces, villas and publishing houses, we offer a simple cabin, guided by passion rather than commercial objectives, by the desire to break down barriers, to mix, to bring together, rather than the need to order, classify, categorize. A hidden cabin, certainly, but open to the world, open to worlds. A cabin that requires no entry visa, but a smile as a token of good faith, and a hand on the heart to confirm the desire to positively influence a world. Then, we will lower the ladder so you can climb up.

Our editorial policy is more of a gradient than a line. We prefer to stay alert and open rather than lock ourselves into pre-conceived categories. We do not claim to have a definitive opinion on what deserves to be published or not. We will, however, favor the species that grow in the margins and the outskirts — authors from non-European francophone countries, first-time novelists, counter-current thinkers — and literary or thematic works that engage reflections on the world with a view to building bridges rather than burning them.