About
About Barking Rain
An independent literary publication for fiction readers, book-club organisers, librarians, teachers and writers who want to understand small-press publishing.
What we publish
- Book records: verified bibliographic facts, a neutral premise, reading notes and book-club questions, with sources.
- Guides: ebooks and reading devices, genres, book clubs, and how independent publishing works.
- Reader tools: a Fiction Finder, a reading-list planner, a discussion-prompt generator and a comparison table.
- An archive of Barking Rain Press, the small fiction publisher that used this domain until it announced its closure in 2019.
Not the former publisher
The domain barkingrainpress.org was acquired by the current owner after the original press had closed. We are not Barking Rain Press, its imprint, its staff or its successor. We hold none of its contracts, don’t represent its authors and don’t sell or distribute its books. Full clarification.
How the site is written
Content is produced with AI-assisted desk research and checked by a separate AI fact-checking pass, under the rules in our editorial policy and methodology. Pages do not claim human expert review, personal reading or hands-on testing unless that actually happened, and today it has not.
Money
The site has no advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored posts and no paid placements. If that ever changes, every affected link will be labelled and the editorial policy updated.