please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s general notability guideline . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources legend press news newspapers books scholar jstor free images may 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message a major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . april 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message legend press is an independent british book publisher founded in 2005 by tom chalmers . specialising in mainstream trade paperback fiction legend press became the youngest run publisher in the uk trade market . in 2006 the company set out its intention to double the number of titles it publishes each year until reaching 20 25 in 2009 . as well as the range of novels london based legend press also began an annual short story series looking to boost the popularity of short fiction and make it more aligned to today s reader and society . in 2010 they published books including dave cameron s schooldays by bill coles and the sky is changing by zoe jenny 1 and launched legend business 1 and took on management for the books etc. website . in 2011 they were shortlisted for the independent publisher of the year . they have since released best selling books by authors such as ruth dugdall whose novel the sacrificial man sold 45 000 copies . citation needed founder edit chalmers set up legend press in 2005 and aged 25 became the youngest managing director of a publishing company in the mainstream uk market . citation needed in march 2007 founder and managing director tom chalmers was shortlisted for the inaugural uk young publisher of the year award . 2 in october 2007 chalmers was shortlisted for the young music entrepreneur of the year award . the annual award is part of the real business cbi growing business awards . references edit nbg talks to zo jenny new books in german nbg . syp member nominated for uk young publisher of the year the society of young publishers 4 april 2007 . external links edit official website interview with roundtable review interview with writewords writers service article series business directory entry this article about a publishing company in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title legend press & oldid 734054158 categories small press publishing companiesbook publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 2005united kingdom publishing company stubshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from may 2010all articles with topics of unclear notabilitywikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from april 2010articles with a promotional tone from may 2010all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2016articles with unsourced statements from may 2010all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 august 2016 at 20 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view