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Carthage Rules OK!: Maiden Castle
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012. The countryside of Britain is dotted with stone age fortifications dating back thousands of years. Some of them are quite small, others are huge. Arguably the most impressive is Maiden Castle to the north of Weymouth in Dorset. The huge triple wall earthworks straddle a hill top and would originally have been well over fifty feet high. The area contained within, would hold well over thirty football pitches and is truly breathtaking in its scale. The sheer amount of earth moved ...
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Carthage Rules OK!: February 2012
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Thursday, 16 February 2012. The successor to Salamis? I remember being taught elementary economics at school and laying the invention of mass production at the feet of Adam Smith and his theory of how to manufacture nails efficiently. Our transatlantic cousins will vociferously claim it was Henry Ford who first instituted the modern theory of the production line. In fact, both the Romans and Chinese are antedated by the Carthaginians. No more than a month and a half to build a fleet which rivalled the si...
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A Publisher's Blog: November 2011
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Sunday, 27 November 2011. A long drawn out and frustrating conversation 27th November 2011. We have been rather trapped into a long and ultimately frustrating conversation with a potential author over the last four months. I guess if I’m perfectly honest about this, she’s no longer a potential author for us, irrespective of the quality of her manuscript. Then we got an answer asking, rather pointedly if we had received her first e-mail, and were we actually interested in her book. By now, our own patienc...
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A Publisher's Blog: February 2011
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Thursday, 17 February 2011. Submission 17th February 2011. It never ceases to amaze me, the way some inexperienced authors think the world works according to their own skewed vision of it. Case in point. We had a submission query in yesterday, note I said query, and not an actual submission itself. The entire e-mail was basically three sentences (albeit one of them was quite long and included a web address). Sentence 2. I’ve picked your company to publish it. There was then quite a curt sign off. I see, ...
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A Publisher's Blog: A long drawn out and frustrating conversation 27th November 2011.
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Sunday, 27 November 2011. A long drawn out and frustrating conversation 27th November 2011. We have been rather trapped into a long and ultimately frustrating conversation with a potential author over the last four months. I guess if I’m perfectly honest about this, she’s no longer a potential author for us, irrespective of the quality of her manuscript. Then we got an answer asking, rather pointedly if we had received her first e-mail, and were we actually interested in her book. By now, our own patienc...
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A Publisher's Blog: 17th December 2011 Lesson 101 on submissions.
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Saturday, 17 December 2011. 17th December 2011 Lesson 101 on submissions. I really, really find rejecting submissions something that is very, difficult. As an author I know how hard it is to take each rejection professionally rather than personally, and how hard it can be to grow the thick skin required to paper your walls with rejection slips. The reason for this rejection? A serious Submission 101 breach. It had already been rejected by us before! Posted by David Bowman. 18 December 2011 at 09:40.
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A Publisher's Blog: 19th November 2011 – Bad Science.
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Saturday, 19 November 2011. 19th November 2011 – Bad Science. Whether we care to admit it or not, the internet has seen an explosion of poor and bad information, and some deliberate miss-information about a large number of scientific topics. Barely a week goes past without some journalist or other raising their standard on new ground and declaring this or that is bad for you. There is one piece of very bad science in his early chapters though, which threatens to undermine the whole book. His time mac...
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A Publisher's Blog: 18th November 2011 - Giving Writers Advice.
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Friday, 18 November 2011. 18th November 2011 - Giving Writers Advice. The eponymous title of this section is about a path fraught with danger. We’ve all done it, gone to a writing group, maybe a new one, maybe one we’ve been a member of for a long time, and opened our mouths to give a piece of advice. This is what happened to me. This author decided she didn’t agree. She’s perfectly entitled to, of course. The point this particular blogger and I agree on, is the essential need to differentiate thoughts f...
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A Publisher's Blog: December 2011
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Saturday, 17 December 2011. 17th December 2011 Lesson 101 on submissions. I really, really find rejecting submissions something that is very, difficult. As an author I know how hard it is to take each rejection professionally rather than personally, and how hard it can be to grow the thick skin required to paper your walls with rejection slips. The reason for this rejection? A serious Submission 101 breach. It had already been rejected by us before! Posted by David Bowman. Tuesday, 13 December 2011.
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