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Reviews - good god, about time
Reviews for SEE HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU by Luis Leante are finally starting as people wake up to this book.The humanitarian angle is certainly important - this people, the Saharawi's of the Western Sahara,...
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Happy New Year
Hope the hangovers are lifting now as the sun sets in London - we had a fine New Year with fellow publishing folk at the pub of the year 2009 in Putney, the Bricklayer's Arms. Only draw back was the...
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the present
Well, the most surprising thing to blog about this year, is how strong book sales are from this list, and how enjoyable it is to plan a future mainly in the back shelves of bookshops and on online book...
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Article 17
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air Professor David MackayOK – two things are definite – we all want our time on this planet to be worthwhile. And we kind of want to have a good conscience about...
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Crikey
At lunch time today, an email came in from a consultancy who offer to set you a questionnaire for personnel so you can judge their mood swings and ability to cope under pressure.Well, I assessed my...
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Charlie Gillet
I'm working away - all kinds of things including preparing copy for the English Pen Writers in Translation 5 year celebratory compilation (we were lucky enough to have two books and authors supported...
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Rosy Barnes - the scrummiest script writer
Great news - Rosy Barnes, the author of SADOMASOCHISM FOR ACCOUNTANTS which we published last year at a launch complete with bowler hatted male strippers and whips, in a London club, (OK - a cafe with...
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Election 2010
We had an author standing for election, in Hampstead & Kilburn. Tamsin Omond stood as an independent candidate - her main issues were green politics, climate change and law and order. Well, she...
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Article 12
I thought I would post a little about this company, now that we have reached the middle of the year.Last year, when Borders and Books Etc in the UK shut up shop, I felt that a small independent press...
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2011 and our wonderful Christmas bestseller
Happy 2011 everyone!Marion Boyars Publishers had a Christmas bestseller. Rage Against the Machine followers from 2009 chose Cage Against the Machine for their 2010 campaign against manufactured...
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Campaign call
I had an eventful day yesterday.Early evening, I went to my local library in Barnes to pick up an inter library loan. The book, Snowdrops by A.D Miller (a snowdrop in this case is not a pretty flower -...
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Working on new editions
The benefit of working on new editions with familiar books, from the Marion Boyars backlist, is that you find you do not argue with yourself. Nice cover image, you say to yourself. Don't mind if I use...
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Are chick lit book covers a feminist issue?
In today's Guardian, 16th September, there is an article about a Harper Collins author, Polly Courtney, ditching her publisher at her book launch, after three years of pent-up frustration over how her...
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Happy Christmas, world
A Very Happy Christmas to all readers of this blog, our authors, and distributors. We'll be having a rest over the holidays but still thinking about new ventures and titles for 2012.In the meantime,...
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Article 6
I've been wondering about the self-publishing route, as this weekend the press (Guardian Money section, for one) has had a few stories of individual success stories. If you can publish directly to...
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New Year pick me up
Last night I went to a talk given by Salley Vickers, and she read a few lines from a short story, about taking a bus to from Penzance to St Ives to see the Barbara Hepworth exhibition. She and her...
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Article 4
A snippet from Publishers Weekly online caught my eye -Authors on the Air February 2, 2012: Mei-Ling Hopgood, David AgusMei-Ling Hopgood, author of How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other...
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The Alchemy of E-Books
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LONDON BOOK FAIR
It's coming up to the time of year where editors and publishers, production managers and agents, start to pack their bags for the London Book Fair, and we will be exhibiting on the Central Books stand,...
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Article 1
6th August 2012Marion Boyars Publishers is currently receiving email updates from Bat Conservation News. Why this new Inbox event is happening will become apparent very soon, but in the meanwhile I...
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Bats and their habits
Bat Conservation News is still emailing me, a missive I read intently, because I have much to learn.So, while I do not think bats have much to do with nuns or monks (habits), the current Bat...
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Article 0
I just read on Book 2 Book this morning that Elif Shafak is to be the Market Focus Author of the Day at the London Book Fair in April 2013. Elif is now published by Penguin in the UK, and has been...
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http://www.pen.org/event/2013/02/14/literary-safariWe're delighted to celebrate the USA publication of The Finno-Ugrian Vampire by Noémi Szécsi. The author, the most prominent young Hungarian writing...
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The Finno-Ugrian Vampire reaches New York!
13th May, 2013We are now all back from the exciting times we had in New York at the Pen World Voices Festival. Our author, Noemi Szecsi, was invited to the festival, and her travel and hotel were...
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I just read that one of our most respected dramatist authors passed away at the age of 92.Tadeusz Rosewicz is the author of The Hunger Artist Departs, and Mariage Blanc, amongst other plays. His style...
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