When: April 23rd every year (unless you’re a Brit, then it’s the first Thursday of March) Who: It’s organised by UNESCO Why: Promotion of reading, publishing and copyright Where: Around the world! But it started in Catalonia. This year, the World Book Capital is Athens in Greece. Every year, a city is chosen for the …
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10 Facts & Figures About eBooks!
Readers and writers alike often debate the merits of eBooks versus traditional print publications. Though both sides offer valid support for their claims, this contentious argument is unlikely to end any time soon. Regardless of your position on this issue, one thing remains clear: eBooks are here to stay. Read on to discover 10 fascinating …
10 Old-Fashioned Words We Need to Resurrect!
Social media has brought us dozens of new words and phrases. “Bae’s eyebrows are on fleek” is a sentence no one would have uttered just five years ago; today, however, most Millennials know exactly what it means. Though new words are coming into vogue every month, many others have been lost. We think it’s high …
Book Review – “Words of Sorrow and Joy” by Christopher Allen
A great poet manages to evoke universal truths through his work. In Words of Sorrow and Joy, Christopher Allen does just this. Through his poetry, Allen takes us on a pensive and wistful journey through the peaks and valleys of life. To read his work is to delve into the manifold emotions of daily life — both the …
Introducing A Cover Artist
Guest Entry by Jack Goodwin Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jack Goodwin (well, it’s not really, but I much prefer that to the one I actually got lumped with) I live in a small town in West Wales called Lampeter. You’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of it.
Rose Raven – What Inspires Me?
Guest Post by Rose Raven (Author of The Pirate’s Lover, The Pirate’s Captive, The Pirate’s Choices, The Colonel’s Captive, and The Gambler’s Debt) “I tend to write on a whim, rather than in a focused way… so a lot of this is just whim-orientated bits of nothing that turn into a story. I like to …
Store And Book Download (Obsolete)
(Post is currently obsolete – 14/03/2017) The store has been open now for a month and we’ve been very excited to have had two sales thus far… There have been a few glitches here and there and we’ve fixed all those that have been flagged up to us. Anybody who has any trouble should …
On Publishing Swearwords
We’ve had this question before – albeit not very often, since majority of people seem actually quite happy with our guidelines – swearwords: yea or nay? The answer is simple.
Styles of Writing And Which Person
Guest Entry by H. Ravenholm Having dissected all those potential pitfalls that await an author in this complicated world, let’s now look at the styles of writing and which person you write in.
Styles Of Writing
Guest Entry by H. Ravenholm It’s a definite – there are probably as many styles of writing as there are people (read that potential authors, read that potential authors we want to publish ). But… and that’s an everlasting but for all authors… what if, that terrible, niggling if, what if what you are …