"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."

Andy Warhol

"All this postmodern irony is just so dull. I really hate the homogeneity of the publishing world where it's next to impossible to get genuinely interesting work published. The big publishing houses would have you believe that there isn't a market for new and exciting work that takes a few risks and makes a demand on it's readers, but that's bollocks. Absolute bollocks."

Heidi James

"A shake-up may well be coming - and it's thanks to the opportunities opened up by new technology and the internet. Social Disease, a new kind of publishing company. It does most of its marketing and talent scouting on the internet and relies on new print on demand technology to keep its costs sufficiently low to ensure that, even if it can't compete with the publishing behemoths, it won't be crushed by them anytime soon either."

 Sam Jordison, The Guardian