I met a store owner recently, an old guy, in the business many years. When I asked him if he'd ever thought about publishing he hunched over his arms and said:
"Publishing in the Caribbean is an interesting affair. Trinidad has good writers but to be honest - and don't mind me saying - the great writers are from Guyana. Barbados does the pagination. Jamaica has the salesmen. The publishers in the Caribbean aren't that straight, they cheat writers, go up the islands, change the cover, don't pay any royalties, but it's your book."
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