AuthorCraft

  The first AuthorCraft Surrey event takes place in Guildford’s famous pub real pub and music venue, The Keep. ┬áThe event is free to attend and you will have the opportunity to meet and network with other authors plus experts in all aspects of bringing your book into the world. (more…)

Is┬á a Glut of Books a Good Thing? Hugh C. Howey A common refrain in this new age of self-publishing is that there are too many books. The outflow of new material has been likened to all sorts of natural disasters spewing forth and flooding the land. Not only are there too many books, these […]

Coffin For a Kindle: The eBook Market is Dying in the UK ┬á- By Gerald Lynch┬á┬á www.gizmodo.co.uk Is the eBook revolution on its last legs? That’s what both physical book retailers and digital book sales figures from the Christmas period would suggest, with eBook and eReader purchases sliding significantly in the UK. Waterstones, the UK’s […]

Newsflash: The Biggest Book Show on Earth has just got bigger, with over 40 authors, including Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Chris Riddell, Cathy Cassidy, Cressida Cowell, Liz Pichon and more travelling across the country to celebrate World Book Day 2015 Over 40 authors will travel to 10 locations across the UK and Ireland between 23 […]

Digital Watermarks Take the Publishing World by Storm By Michael Kozlowski Major Publishers and Bookstores are staring to forgo Adobe DRM and instead embrace Digital Watermarking technology. They are doing this because it is easier for the customer to be able to load the eBooks they purchase onto their e-Reader, smartphone or tablet. Right now […]

Congratulations to David Mellor on the launch of his second book in the ‘From Crew to Captain Series’. In his second book, ‘A Privateers Tale’,┬á David Mellor helps people to ┬áunderstand the transition from working for a big┬áinstitution to setting up as a sole practitioner┬áconsultant or similar. David has made this journey,┬áand helped many others […]