Editorial Team
Do children actually like reading horror stories?
According to a recent post (Apr 12, 2022) at BookTrust, they actually do! In a fascinating article about scary books for 8-12 year olds,...
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Hello and welcome to our blog - brand new for Summer 2021. We will be posting topical items here, sometimes with with links to newspaper and magazine articles which may be of interest to clients and prospective clients.
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Editorial Team
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
"The Golden Treasury of Selected School Works" Second Edition released by Lamplight Press.
Spike Potter's insane book featuring nothing less than a giant pigeon eating the Eiffel Tower and some strange theories about Napoleon...
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Editorial Team
- Feb 18, 2022
- 1 min
Bookstore Sales Rose 28% in 2021
An article in Publishers Weekly yesterday reported that bookstore sales last year had almost bounced back to pre-Covid 2019 levels, which...
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Editorial Team
- Feb 7, 2022
- 1 min
"The Whippet Wizards" is now available from Lamplight Press in paperback.
Anton Corvus' classic and crazy story about three inept Whippet Wizards has been updated with the Lamplight Press imprint and is...
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Editorial Team
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1 min
Government decides not to change copyright exhaustion laws.
Yesterday (Tuesday 18 January 2022), the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) announced that it will, for now, not be proceeding with the...
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Editorial Team
- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all our clients, friends and associates!
We will be closed for Christmas and New Year Holidays from 18:00 on Wed 22nd December 2021 and re-opening on Wed 5th January at 09:00. We...
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Editorial Team
- Dec 7, 2021
- 1 min
Christmas 2021: Authors and critics on their best books of the year. The Novella gets a mention!
In a recent article in the i newspaper, Elizabeth Day, Lisa Taddeo, David Nicholls and others reveal their top reads. Of general...
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Editorial Team
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
Josh Howarth at Exploding Topics talks about Publishing Trends for 2021 - 2024.
After giving us a heads up on the size of the industry ($26 billion in revenue in the US alone), Josh Howarth goes on to point out that...
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Editorial Team
- Nov 15, 2021
- 1 min
“Is Amazon Changing the Novel?” asks Parul Sehgal in November’s edition of The New Yorker.
In a fascinating, and often insightful piece, Parul Sehgal, a staff writer at The New Yorker who previously worked as a book critic for...
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Editorial Team
- Nov 1, 2021
- 1 min
2020 was a pivotal year for publishers and readers alike, figures now reveal.
The pandemic forced a change in people’s social habits, people read books more often than they had previously. A few years ago it was...
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Editorial Team
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
Congratulations to Joseph Wyndham for his new thriller: "Masquerade".
As an oblivious general population slumber along in their mundane lives, they are totally unaware of the criminal links between the...
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Editorial Team
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Congratulations to Anton Corvus on the publication of "The Bravest Little Lamb" Second Edition.
A second edition of Anton Corvus' classic tale of bravery in the face of grave peril has been published today in a new trim size of 8" x...
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Editorial Team
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
Congratulations to Alexander J. Farrell on the publication of his first book.
Alexander J. Farrell’s meditation on the End Times uses a terrifying vision of the Last Judgment to assist readers in thinking about the...
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