Mar 10, 2018
by Chris Day The four weeks before publication are often the busiest time for authors for marketing their book. Many will be doing a pre-order campaign and supporting it with a flurry of social media activity. Others will be guest blogging on synergistic sites with a...
Feb 16, 2018
We would like to welcome Mike Goss to his new role as project manager for Filament. Mike has been a long-standing member of the Filament support team and many of you will have met him at Authorcraft events where he has been looking after our technical logistics. He...
Feb 11, 2018
Oswald Mould – Speaking at the Institute of Directors in London, England at the launch of; ‘America the Beautiful – a State of Mind’ Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is my book, “American the Beautiful”. And, I am trying to get it...
Feb 11, 2018
Screenwriter Charles Harris delivered a workshop on ‘Pitching your book for film’, at the AuthorCraft event in January 2018. Here is a transcript of his talk. So, I started off in the film business. I’m not just a writer, I’m a director and an...
Feb 10, 2018
So what is a blurb? A blurb on the back of your book or an Amazon page or any other website, is your sales pitch. Once your title and cover have drawn your potential reader in, the blurb is what is going to make the difference between your book being cast aside and...
Dec 11, 2017
Every author wants their book to stand out and look special. Explore the shelves in any good bookshop and you will see books with embossed covers, foil blocking, words picked out in varnish (known as ‘spot U.V) and many other print embellishments and finishes. It is...
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