January’s over, spring is around the corner, and we’re starting to feel a bit more hopeful that the winter might actually end. With that in mind, we’ve… Read more “Short Fiction Ebooks promotion”

Entries are now being accepted for the Man Booker Prize 2015. The deadline for entries is Friday 6 March (for completed entry forms) and Friday 19 June… Read more “The Man Booker Prize 2015”

In a brilliant talk, part of the amazing Ted X Talks series, Dublin academic Vera Regan, from UCD, looks at what our use of language says about… Read more “What does the way you speak say about you?”

Things are hotting up in the publishing world, as all the bookshops brace themselves for the Christmas rush. Books are launching in every cafe, motel and abandoned… Read more “Publishing Events on the Horizon”

This is the second part of our earlier post on the world of the publishing contract. With that in mind, we have called this post, The Publishing… Read more “The Publishing Contract – Part 2 – The Advance”

A far too familiar preserve of the editorial assistant and struggling author, the late-night discount space within Tesco looks as if it will be soon adding to… Read more “Blink and you’ll miss it”

The murky world of the publishing contract has long been shrouded in mystery. They are traditionally drawn up on a delicate vellum, in a book-lined opium den… Read more “‘The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away’ – a case for independent contract reviews (Part One)”

As has been mentioned quite often of late, the language of simile has become the norm for start-ups, with every business being posited as the Netflix for… Read more “Kindle Unlimited – has the digital rollercoaster of death left the station, or is it all going to be fine.”