In an era when print-on-demand technology makes it possible to create single copies of books in a few minutes and ebooks can be distributed anywhere in the world at the push of a button, the notion of a small press springing up from a Internet-based writer’s community is not very hard to believe.

In Part One of a series, David G. Clark, co-founder of TL;DR Press, talks about how a writer’s group on Reddit evolved into a non-profit book publisher that donates all of their revenues to charities. The original writer’s community has migrated to Slack although Twitter and Reddit contingents still exist as well. From a single anthology released in 2018, the TL;DR Press library of collections has expanded to several titles and more works are underway.

The following interview was an impromptu session (I twisted David’s arm to talk about the founding of the Press and he graciously complied). The history of TL;DR Press illustrates how a diverse group of writers can come together across the cosmic ether of the Internet and publish powerful, contemporary fiction.

Click through to listen to an audio version of a story by one of the co-founders, Joe Butler.