No apologies for not posting here for a while – I am engrossed in writing a new book for you – but I do want to share with you the inspiration that some recent reviews have given me. Some authors
The Real Value of Reviews
Folk Tales Survived for Millennia
Our folk tales have survived for millennia. ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ was told 5,000 years ago*, its moral wisdom more than ever relevant today. My last blog post revealed true facts from around the same period in an ancient Irish
Publishing with Illustrations
Remember Twitter before the ‘selfie’ craze? No one bothers to read tweets without images now. Even fewer will recall computing with DOS before Windows raised our expectations to click on a picture to open a Pandora’s Box. Our experience is
Anatomy of a Book Cover
Creating a book cover is a partnership between book designer, author and publisher. Each contributes a different essential element to the process of making your book stand out among thousands of others. Here is where artistry and marketing meet. “The
Reading Between the Lines
Reading used to be considered a dangerous practice. If the ‘lower classes’ started doing it they might begin questioning the social order, and young girls would get ‘ideas’. How right they were to worry. No doubt you give consideration to