Online bookshop focusing on category fiction - everything from SF to fantasy, horror to thrillers and crime to romance. With biographies of 15,000 authors and 250,000 books, it's a fantastic resource. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
Ambitious brand-new online bookselling site, set up by the Poetry Book SocietySpecialist book club founded by T S Eliot in 1953, which aims to offer the best new poetry published in the UK and Ireland. Members buy at 25% discount. The PBS has a handsome new website at www.poetrybooks.co.uk, which offers 90,000 poetry titles available in the UK and continuously updated news, articles, poetry events, updates and information about poetry. www.poetrybookshoponline.com
Just starting out and currently with little material on it, this site is dedicated to providing a free service to help small press publishers and self-publishers to promote and sell their books online and internationally. www.booktaste.com
Ghostwriter service provided by smart professional firm operating out of New York City. As well as ghostwriting, there are a number of useful articles on working with a ghostwriter. www.pegr.com
The P4 Personality Mapping tool claims to provide you with a new and unique method of assessing people's personality types so you can better understand and communicate with them — whether colleagues, family or friends. For fiction writers it offers you a new way of creating realistic characters to fulfill specific plot roles. Read more
Online fee-paying publishing site which offers opportunity to put your work on the Internet at a price you choose. You then pay a handling charge on sales from the site. www.diypublishing.com
New website offering paid-for downloads of short stories by classic authors, plus the chance to submit your own work to go on the site. Worth persisting through the rather annoying Flash intro. http://www.shortalk.co.uk
‘My settings of Europe and English visitors weren't really doing it for them, so we decided Scotland would be good. I thought an island would be great, because it's a small community, and it's an opportunity for my main character to get away from it all. The team at HarperCollins have been so supportive and enthusiastic... Read more
For the past five years or so, I've read books on my phone. The practice started innocently enough. I write book reviews from time to time, and so publishers sometimes send me upcoming titles that fall roughly within my interests. Read more
The Guardian calls Irish-Indian poet Nikita Gill "Britain's most-followed poet on social media"-she has 780,000 Instagram followers and 180,000 TikTok followers, and her Instapoetry has been reshared by the likes of Khloe Kardashian, Alanis Morissette, and Sam Smith-and she has published seven volumes of poetry and two novels in the U.K. But she is far less known on this side of the pond. Read more
Nikkolas Smith knows a thing or two about book bans. The illustrator has created five picture books over the last three years-four of which have been yanked off library shelves. There's I am Ruby Bridges, about the civil rights icon; That Flag about the confederate flag; Born on the Water, which explores slavery; and The Artivist which features a child supporting trans kids.
Simon & Schuster has acquired the largest Dutch publishing group Veen Bosch & Keuning, including all of its publishers in the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as sister companies Thinium and Bookchoice.
The Publishers Association (PA) has criticised the government's response to a House of Lords report on AI, saying that it has failed to make "any tangible commitments to protect the creative industries against mass copyright infringement".
My publisher wife looks across at me reading a proof of one of her soon-to-be-released thrillers. 'The setting is great, isn't it?' she says. 'Really good,' I reply. 'Very generous.' Read more
'Some of them say I've got an idealised vision of life... some of them say I use too many adjectives. Well I just say, "My dears! Why should I care? I've got something called readers."'
'I'm very reassuringly honest'
‘My settings of Europe and English visitors weren't really doing it for them, so we decided Scotland would be good. I thought an island would be great, because it's a small community, and it's an opportunity for my main character to get away from it all. The team at HarperCollins have been so supportive and enthusiastic... Read more