In this video, NTPagesTV reporter Mel meets Paul from Rockpool Publishing to find out about their authors and books, which they distribute around the world. Paul showcases the latest must-have reads, including 'The Metabolic Clock' to help speed up the metabolism, as well as their best-selling book 'You Are Clairvoyant'.
Read the full transcription of the interview below.
Natural Therapy Pages: I'm Mel from NTPagesTV, and I'm here with Paul from Rockpool Publishing. How are you, Paul?
Paul Dennett: I'm great! How are you?
NTP: Very well. How's the show going for you?
PD: Fantastic, fantastic. I mean, we're here to promote our authors predominantly. We're an Australian publisher. We publish books on mind, body, spirit, parenting and health. We're from Sydney, but we've got distribution all around the board. Our main aim with these festivals is to get in front of customers, introduce our authors to them, and support them as I speak around the venue.
NTP: Beautiful. Cause you don't actually have a physical store, is that right?
PD: No, we go through distributors. So, all of our products are distributed through Scribau, on Brumby in Australia, overseas with this read-through IPG in the States, and can sell in the UK and Europe.
NTP: Fantastic! Beautiful, and how long have you been going for?
PD: Five years. We started the business when our kids were born, and we used the business as a way to get our life balance as well. But, somehow, it sort of didn't work out. We work a lot now, and the kids are growing now, so it's pretty busy but we love it.
NTP: It's all happening.
PD: It's lovely, you know. We got a family of authors that we've grown as well, so it's nice like that.
NTP: So, tell me what books I should be buying at the moment.
PD: The hot books at the moment are most definitely 'The Metabolic Clock: Speed Up Your Metabolism'. It's written by Julie Rennie. She's an ex-AI Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) runner, and she stopped running, lost the enthusiasm, put on weight, realised that there's better ways to lose weight than exercise, and so she wrote 'Metabolic Clock'. I've lost five kilos since it's been published, by reading it. I sleep better at night, I wake up, I've got so much energy. So, it's a help book that's really selling well.
Our best-selling book, which is in its, about, fifth reprint, is 'You Are Clairvoyant' by Belinda Grace. She is one of Australia's premium mediums. We sold rights of this book to the States and Italy just in the last few months, so this is really so hot. This is going to go well throughout the world. Australians love it. 'You Are Clairvoyant', that's a great book. In fact, we've actually packaged that. We've got a new product as well, which is a box set. Taking the book, the CD, oracle cards, all for $40. It's a great bargain.
NTP: Perfect! Any other ones you want to mention?
PD: I think one of the big ones is probably Stacey Demarco's 'Lunar Diary'. It's halfway through the year, but you can pre-order now for next year's. And Stacey's the judge 'The One', so you see a lot more of her on channel 7 coming up. We love Stacey. She's great. And her 'Luna Diary' is coming out in November this year. So, look out for 2012.
NTP: You must be so well read on all of these fantastic books.
PD: Yeah, look I love it. It's good to publish Australian authors and promote Australian products. It's a fun thing to be around.
NTP: Do you have a website we can go to?
PD: We do. It's called rockpoolpublishing.com.au.
NTP: Okay, fantastic. Well, thank you so much for your time today.
PD: Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Originally published on Jun 14, 2011
