We have now closed down
Handheld has been publishing forgotten fiction, lost authors, biographies, letters and memoir since October 2017. After 48 books it’s time to bring this wild and exciting ride to an end. We are now closed for website orders, and after June 2025 we’ll pay the bills, send out the final royalties and close the accounts.
In due course this website will be shuttered, but until then enjoy our videos on our YouTube channel, and catch any further notices on Instagram. You can find Kate on Bluesky.
Look for our books on the Postscript site! Many of our books are there at very low prices, but these are the very last in existence.
The Handheld Diaries
Nearly eight years ago Kate began to keep a work log of her increasingly complex working life as she set up Handheld Press. These becameThe Handheld Diaries , now serialising on Substack, where you can relive the fear of accountancy, the incomprehension of the book trade and the joy of publishing our books. It’s a journey into the unknown, setting up a publishing house with only a wishlist, some editorial experience and a lot of dogged perseverance. We published 48 books in seven years. This is how we did it.
