Vanity Booksellers

Everybody seems to know about ‘vanity publishing’ these days. From the acknowledged heights of the literary establishment to the most obscure corners of the Internet, you regularly come across people pouring scorn on those who pay to have their work published. Read all »

‘Miganium’ by Ali Sparkes - an indie adventure

This is one tremendous adventure story from Ali Sparkes, author of the famous Shapeshifter series published by OUP. Her regular followers won’t need to be told that ‘Miganium’ is a book to get hold of - they have been eagerly awaiting this title for some time - but in case you haven’t come across Ali’s stories, this is how it goes… Read all »

Is The Arts Council Funding A Vanity Publisher?

Dear Editor,
Are you a vanity publisher?
Yours,
A Hopeful Author
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Misfit Mirror

Have you noticed how people judge internet-based writing in  a totally different way to works that come to them in a more traditional form? Or have you wondered about the startled reactions flash fiction receives from non-internet using readers? Read all »

How to Avoid Making Money

Over at Earlyworks Press we have found ways of avoiding making a profit from writing competitions, from running a subscription club, or from publishing books. Now, why would we want to do a thing like that, and why would I want to tell the world about our marvellous failure? Read all »

Do Writers Need Agents?

Do I need an agent?
What do agents do for their money?
Why isn’t my agent/publisher marketing my work?

I’ve had quite a few email debates around these questions and have just embarked on two more so it’s clearly a hot topic. Here’s my tuppenceworth: Read all »

What Kind of Publisher do you Want?

If you are developing a career as a writer these days, you are probably aware that there are many different ways of going on. the Internet has opened many new roads to publication - and also exposed questing writers to many new pitfalls. Read all »

Earlyworks Press

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Well, on the ‘About Us’ page of the Earlyworks Press website I explain it thus: Read all »