When we buy ebooks and When it has to be print…
At Nielsen Book’s annual conference (Nielsen are the people who count books worldwide) it was reported that many readers in Britain and the US buy both print and digital books … Continue reading
Back to Creative Writing School: an announcement
I’m delighted to reveal – imagine a drum roll and a touch of staccato piano playing in the background – that Back to Creative Writing School is now out in … Continue reading
A modest author’s scrapbook of useful discoveries — Safari Friday searching the web for writers and readers
I came across Jerry Sims blog a few weeks ago. He describes himself as a relative novice in the world of digital publishing but he’s set himself a challenge for … Continue reading
Is this the next big thing? Another publishing company is looking for teen and YA fiction ebooks
I see that Bloomsbury Spark – a digital imprint from Bloomsbury Publishing (aka as J.K.Rowling’s publisher) is looking for teen, young adult and new adult fiction from new and established … Continue reading
Write a gritty, urban novella for 18 to 24 year olds about modern Britain – SALT are calling for submissions
SALT is an innovative and independent publisher celebrating 15 years in the business with a new experiment in fiction. Books for their Modern Fiction list will appear as ebooks only … Continue reading
Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes) Stephen Fry on ebooks
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. STEPHEN FRY photo credit: swisscan via photopin cc
Safari Saturday: searching the web for writers and readers — a free library for the world
Many of you will already know about and use Project Gutenberg, but some things can’t be mentioned too often and this is one of them. History It began on 4th … Continue reading
Great Giveaway
Sally Quilford writes short stories for women’s magazines, judges writing competitions and writes a monthly column with Writers Forum magazine. Stephen Fry once described her as ‘pleasantly sane’… I’m telling … Continue reading
Real readers don’t buy hardback books
Just read on the BBC’s website that 17,662 hardback copies of The Cuckoo’s Calling sold were sold between 14 and 20 July since JK Rowling was revealed as the author. … Continue reading
SAFARI FRIDAY searching the web for writers and readers THIN READS
This is a very new website – just five days old – and based in America so not relevant to everyone, but I wanted to include it in SAFARI FRIDAY … Continue reading
DID YOU KNOW how well Amazon ebooks are doing after five years of selling?
Ebook sales were up approximately 70% over 2011. In contrast, Amazon’s physical books – the kind you can lend, smell, hold and put on a shelf – had the lowest … Continue reading
Free ebooks to download from two bestselling authors
You wait for one to come along and then… Two Brighton based authors embark on two very different train journeys. We can read the stories that emerged from their travels … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 