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

(To see the whole article, click its title bar.)

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