by Ruth Lunn | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog
In a crowded market it’s difficult to get your book noticed. Particularly with ebooks where there isn’t even a physical printed book that you can actively show people or that can sit on a bookshop’s shelf. If your book is garnering a number of 4 or 5 star reviews...
by Ruth Lunn | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog
Having spent the last few years publishing other people’s books, we decided it was about time we published our own. And we’re very excited with the result! The book is inspired by true stories discovered on reddit.com of incredible people that most of us...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 16, 2014 | Blog
When we heard about the story behind the story we just knew it had to be shared. One of the books we’ve published in the last month is a fictionalised account of policing in South Shields, Tyneside, in the 1920s, based on the memoirs of a serving policeman. The book,...
by Ruth Lunn | Jan 29, 2014 | Blog
I’ve touched on marketing in previous posts, and I’m returning to it because many new authors find this the biggest challenge of all. Short of advertising everywhere (do you want to take out a second mortgage?), it can be difficult to reach your target audience, and...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 16, 2013 | Blog
This year’s Man Booker winner, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, is the longest novel to win the prize, at 832 pages. Robert Macfarlane, the Chair of the judges, doesn’t reckon its length will put off readers, saying, “length never poses a problem if it’s a great...
