Trying to get a book published by conventional means is very difficult nowadays. Most publishers are not taking new authors, or if they do it is only around 1% of submissions. There are too many variables in the publishing industry with the advent of the Internet and the demise of the bookshop. So publishers are […]

Many people ask me the difference in self publishing, vanity Publishing and traditional publishing and the pros and cons of using them. We will start with True self publishing. True self publishing is where the author does everything themselves, they do the proofreading/ editing, layout of the book and design, organise the ISBN, barcode, listing […]

Things just keep getting better for some of our authors. Got an email from Eric Scott the author of “I could have been a Contender”, we finished this book around March. He just tells me not only has this book been picked up by an eBook publisher in the UK, but they have taken 7 […]

Our latest author to have success is Catherine Chapman and her series of Children’s books Posh Pear and the 8 others, all on health eating for kids. Catherine has sent her book Posh Pear to quite a few book fairs and always got great interest, but never found exactly what she wanted. Now at the […]

Again I am caught completely by surprise. We just received an email from a literary agent who took our book catalogue in 2012 at London book fair. She was asking us if the translation rights for “How to Get Anything You Want” book was still available. This book was sent by the author to the […]