Tag: publishing

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  “Working with my publisher, The Book Guild”

  From Day One up until delivering advance copies of my book, The Book Guild have quickly and scrupulously answered my queries. In fact all of the staff have been uniformly excellent. I’m full of admiration for the company.

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  “The book’s arrived!”

  My books arrived on a sunny Thursday afternoon and I hurriedly brought in the four boxes, which contained, in total, a hundred copies. I prized open the top box on the kitchen table to excited cheers from my eldest daughter, Aimee, and after some scrabbling I was able to lift the book out to an…

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  “Key influences”

  I signed onto the course as I desperately needed some eyes on the work I’d been doing. I’d got to the point where I didn’t know if I was wasting my time or whether I’d be chucked off the course (yes, good old impostor syndrome).

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  “Creating the book cover”

  Early on I’d sent my publisher some ideas for the cover design, mainly screengrabs of book covers or film posters that might inspire the in-house design team. One idea that wouldn’t go away was the sense of one or more of the title words being scrambled.

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  “From manuscript to typeset”

  My publisher, The Book Guild, went into overdrive when I said I’d like to review the book and have it print-ready before I went on holiday for a month. We were going to Colombia and I didn’t know how easy it would be to respond to emails.

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  “A creepy extract from the book”

  So this is a more creepy section from the book, and we’ve created a more abstract video to go with it.