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What Should I Read Next? 7 Strategies to Choose Your Next Read

by Laura | Sep 7, 2021 | Guides and Resources

We’ve all been there — you finish the last page, you close the book you were reading, and a feeling of emptiness crashes over you. You hopefully enjoyed the book, and if it was a particularly good one, you would have been transformed somehow. But now the question... Read more

10 Steps to Get through Your TBR Pile

by admin | May 18, 2021 | Guides and Resources

Most readers have a TBR pile, even if they don’t know what a TBR pile is. In book lingo, a ”TBR Pile” is your to-be-read pile. It’s all those books that you’ve stacked up with the honest intention of reading… and inevitably never got round to. It’s that copy of... Read more

How to Get the Most from Your Writing Group

by Laura | Mar 2, 2021 | Guides and Resources

Before I began writing fiction, I was an academic living in a publish-or-perish world. I submitted articles to journals that accepted them, rejected them or (most often) asked me to revise and resubmit. In that last situation, they returned my draft along with... Read more

Buying Books from Publishers: The Ultimate Guide

by Sara-Jayne Slack | Jan 5, 2021 | Publishing Industry, Ethical Business, Guides and Resources

Over the last decade, buying books online has become commonplace thanks to big-name stores. And we’re not just talking about that online-only store, either. For any reader who’s trying not to default to using the ‘Zon, simply performing a quick ‘where to buy books... Read more

Top 10 Common Character Tropes

by Sara-Jayne Slack | May 31, 2020 | Guides and Resources

Avid readers know how book can be an incredible form of escapism where almost anything is possible and you never quite know what’s going to happen next. This is especially true when we look at graphic novel and comic book collections. Comic books, especially, are... Read more

Lockdown Reading

by Anne Goodwin | Apr 9, 2020 | Guides and Resources

Books to console, inspire and escape into… With all but essential workers on lockdown, and our social lives on hold, the time seems ripe for a (lockdown) reading revolution. But this is no holiday; anxiety will skew what and how we read. Perhaps you want to... Read more

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