Changes to what I’ll be writing about on THIS blog

Adam Warner and I are moving our plans steadily towards launching the new publishing business.

Our web site is now up and running,though not perfect. Let us know what you think. It’s at http://www.adelpublishing.co.uk .

And I’m now writing a second blog which is for readers,writers and anyone interested in how publishing [...]

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Good books:what does a good publisher really contribute?

Yesterday I downloaded samples of a couple of novels for my Kindle,and with some excitement began to read.

The Amazon site indicated the ideas and plots would be great. The novels could indeed have been great,but for me they weren’t. I guess next time I’ll be checking that a novel has been [...]

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so let’s question the direction of the world

people matter more …

Life has been unfair to us.

Adam has cerebral palsy (and is a lazy git lol)

Nige has had chronic depression for 46 years (and is far too old to do anything new )

But so what?

Everyone’s disabled,everyone has tough bits to their life.

The question is,where [...]

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Can I really do this? Do I really want to try?

I’ve just been reviewing the last post,and the most important thing is missing.

It sounds like everything is going smoothly and we’re brimming with confidence,but that just isn’t true.

Every day I wonder what the hell we think we’re up to. We aren’t up to this. We don’t have the knowledge,the skills,[...]

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Rising Star 10:Star is progressing,here’s an extract

As energy and enthusiasm creeps back after two years of ME (see this post) I’m back working on the novel originally called Sunken Star. At last I feel I’m getting somewhere. The novel is not quite complete,and weighed in at 133,000 words before I started this latest edit. I’m now well over half-way through [...]

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Build your own atomic bomb

Iran has just been accused of building a second uranium enrichment plant,and trying to keep it secret. How easy is it to build an atomic bomb? [...]

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Rising Star 9:how to block your own progress

Writers are uncannily like normal human beings in one way. Most of us are unsure of ourselves,and if we’re not careful can lose the confidence to write. It’s called writers’block meaning that we writers block ourselves from writing. Just like everyone else at some time blocks themselves from doing something they’re perfectly capable [...]

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Rising Star 7:considering aspects of being a publisher

BeWrite Books are a small publishing house specialising in fiction. To some extent they are a model of what we want to be. [...]

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Rising Star 6:How is Star developing?

Where has ‘Sunken Star’got to and how am I moving it forwards? [...]

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RS 5.1:today

Today I felt well enough to work on the book ‘Ted’,and this is how we came up with some key plot material last week while on holiday. [...]

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Rising Star 5:first two drafts of subram1 the book

Two approaches to the same weird maths book:one complete,the other still highly experimental. [...]

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Rising Star 4:how will we be special?

Most publishers have reduced the services they provide. [...]

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Rising Star 3:so where have we got to in setting up this publishing business?

There’s a lot to think about in setting up a business,but matters are in hand. [...]

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Rising Star 2:how can Adam become a publisher on a shoestring?

How can one person with little money set up a small publishing business successfully? Because of two major changes in the world of technology. [...]

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Rising Star 1:subversive ramblings the book

The genesis of an idea:let’s set up a small publishing company. [...]

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