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How to design a book cover
So how do you design a book cover? Here’s the striking new one for The Secret Baby Room by D.D. Johnston, & the story behind it. The first choice to be made in cover design, of course, is the basic one: find yourself a good designer. Publishing is a partnership. A writer starts …
Q&A with Kate Horsley
Author of The Monster’s Wife Kate Horsley tells us about her unusual background and how she created her debut novel, a rewriting of Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Why an author turned publisher, and how the economics of publishing plays out
A new publishing house bets against the future of brick and mortar bookstores
A Q&A with James Thornton, the author of SPHINX
Q: Your first novel Immediate Harm was a legal thriller with science fiction overtones – a virus jumping to humans from GM corn. Sphinx: The Second Coming is full-blown scifi. What drew you to the genre? JT: Since I was a boy, scifi has given me a place my mind …
From Creative Writing PhD to novel – Ectopia and Martin Goodman’s writing process
Q: You wrote Ectopia as a PhD. Why? Martin Goodman: I wrote complete drafts of the book before any Creative Writing PhD came into existence. They were sent out into the world by top agents like Mic Cheetham and Deborah Rogers, and kept coming back. I told Deborah to forget …
Philip Gross on Creative Writing from universities- and us!
Philip Gross dons several hats. He’s winner of the T.S.Eliot Prize for poetry; writes terrific fiction for readers of any age who like to explore the young adult world; and he is the Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. He is also gracious enough to give Barbican …
