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BUT BEWRITE BOOKS MINI-EBOOKS ARE FULL-SIZE! BeWrite Books’ exclusive idea of free mini-ebooks covering all its titles is proving a huge success with browsers, readers and authors ... after just four weeks of the mass launch of well over 100 on New Year’s Day. The feedback has been flippin’ amazing. And everyone’s a winner. Each of these wee productions of between thirty and seventy pages

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Everyone knows Cancerians aren’t superstitious, so Friday 13th of Jan is as an auspicious a day as any to proudly and fearlessly release our latest e-omnibus of three unabridged novels in a single download ... and at about 50% less than the ebooks’ combined individual cover prices. This new BeWrite Books e-omnibus covers the first trio of books in Peter Tomlinson’s acclaimed Petronicus Legacy

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The festivities are over and hangovers are hung-up until next time. And since the sparkling new BeWrite Books website went live this week, it’s been All Systems GO! Our revolutionary Ebook-First with ready-to-go for-print files policy is already proving more popular than we’d ever expected, and our new free mini-ebooks for each BB title are doing the job we’d hoped for, thanks to our energetic,

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As of January 1, 2012, BeWrite Books is an ‘Ebook-First’ publisher ... lavishing the same precision, experienced and talented editorial, design and technical care on its digital editions as it has on its print books since the turn of our new millennium. In a nut shell, print is now a by-product of our ebook editions rather than vice-versa. This innovative shift of emphasis is not made lightly.

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BeWrite Books’ team, authors and readers are of all ages, colours, nationalities and creeds. But, unlike the ‘outside’ world, we get along like one big, happy clan. Maybe it’s our shared passion for books and the fascinatingly different characters populating them, the places and eras we're transported to, the previously unexplored possibilities and visions, that promotes such understanding and

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Author Alan Lewis is wrapping the parcels and preparing a traditional merry Christmas for his children. But he has an altogether different Santa story to tell the rest of us … and it doesn’t ring with jingling sleigh bells and cheerful ho-ho-hos. BeWrite Books today (December 2) releases – in paperback and all ebook formats – Alan’s debut novel, The Blood in Snowflake Garden; the garden is the

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Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris’ latest movie, Tabloid, is now becoming a box-office-buster at cinemas around the US. It’ll be on general release in the UK sometime next year and then aired on BBC TV later. The rest of the world will have to wait. But what’s the big deal? Morris’ film about a former beauty queen who turned sex-slave-driver barely scratches the surface of the

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Biggs Performs for the Press Circus on Thursday The international press circus performed for world famous gangster Ronnie Biggs’ last stand on Thursday. Well, not so much a ‘stand’ because the grubby thief and cynical conman, still with an ego the size of a hot-air balloon, is now eighty-two, slumped in a wheelchair and can communicate only by poking a shaky forefinger at an alphabet board to

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Young Karl Kofoed always watched the skies. And when he graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art in the USA, he landed a dream job as a technical illustrator for the aerospace industry. But his vision stretched for light years beyond our own earthly clouds and higher than any plane could fly. In the forty-six years since his career achieved lift-off, Karl’s artist’s eye has roamed the

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Just for once, a wee personal blog to thank everyone for understanding and patience when I suddenly went as blind as a bloody bat a couple of months ago. My first cataract surgery (a doddle) went A-1 this week and now I have one eye (almost) back on the job. Its twin will join the team during the first week of December. Right now, the two Celtic green orbs are at war and I see double after more

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Kurt Vonnegut famously said: ‘Science is magic that works.’ But what about the spells that make that magic ... the Science Fiction that works? Only two blogs ago, we pointed out that Captain James T Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise was using cell phones, tablet computers – and even ebook-reading devices – on his Star Trek voyages when Steve Jobs was still in short pants. The ‘fazer’ stun guns

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  BB Offers Publishers and Agents Ebook Production And Distribution ... Fast!Imprint LIMITROPHE PUBLISHING Launched This Week BeWrite Books this week launched Limitrophe Publishing to offer full digital production to other publishers, agencies and foreign-rights management organizations on a no-fees basis. The new imprint is the result of over a decade’s careful industry monitoring and the

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There are many good reasons for reading, and one has just entered my head. If someone don’t read while a-living, someone certainly can’t when a-dead. Anonymarr (circa five minutes ago) STAR TREK ROMEO CAPT KIRK LOVED EBOOKS TOO! My first and last attempt at poetry, I promise ya, folks. Painful, eh? I wasn’t cut out to be a poet. Or a castrato singer, come to that. But this nonsense rhyme (

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BeWrite Books has grown much too big for its britches ... and that’s good news all round. On October 1 we launch a vital new imprint: LIMITROPHE PUBLISHING. (Interesting and fun etymology as an addendum to this article.) It’s a publisher-to-publisher project that will benefit those many, many larger publishing houses not yet fully geared to in-house ebook production and effective digital

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Roz Morris C’mon, it happens to the best of us ... beaten by a nose to a new idea. But BeWrite Books is proud to have run a close second to a thoroughbred like the admirable, best-seller Roz Morris. She gets a firm and manly handshake from us all on the BB team, and a continental peck on each cheek from me. She and we had the same idea for running ebooks in specially constructed, bite-sized

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             ANN C CRISPIN -- A GLITTERING STAR IN THE LITERARY GALAXY With my own (Neil's) apologies to Lewis Carroll -- who’s long beyond caring now, anyway -- for so blatantly mangling his wonderful lines in the above painfully contrived headline attempt to explain what this is all about … the unpredictable. The conversation between the Walrus and the Carpenter in CARROLL'S LEGENDARY

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Brigitte Bardot BeWrite Books today releases internationally the first ebook editions of Colin Dunne’s Man Bites Talking Dog, in cahoots with print publisher Revel Barker Publishing. Man Bites Talking Dog is the fourth in our ongoing ‘Hack-Lit’ series of ebooks ... penned by seasoned Old School journalists who enthralled millions of ordinary folks like thee and me ... on a daily basis,

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COMPLETE COLLECTED NOVELS RELEASED TODAY BY BEWRITE BOOKS IN ALL EBOOK FORMATS. For our money, largely undiscovered master wordsmith Howard Waldman is the author who justifies the word ‘literary’ in the dubiously titled genre, ‘Literary Fiction’. His works, touching on other genres like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller, Mystery, Political, and even Comedy, sparkle with the rare and

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Today's latest sole-author exclusive poetry anthology from BeWrite Books is Peninsula by Peter Loney. For the poetically inclined and the geographically interested, a very slightly redacted version of the definition of a 'peninsula' is this: an area almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. Those cold dictionary words sum up Loney's work

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THE DEATH BUSINESS SERIES BY ANNE MORGELLYNNew e-Omnibus of three in-series ebooks from BeWrite Books Contained in this single-download e-omnibus of Anne Morgellyn’s THE DEATH BUSINESS series are the first three titles, entirely unabridged and each introduced with its original cover. At $9.95 or local currency equivalent ... the collection is priced at more than 40% off the combined cover

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STICK FIGURES by KIRSTEN HOLMESFrom BeWrite Books Poetry Editor Sam Smith Presented with Kirsten Holme’s collection, Stick Figures, I beheld a persona equal parts fragility and hardness, the fragility being Kirsten Holmes’ human vulnerability, the hardness being her exceptional ability to stand off, look with held-open eyes at what has passed, and then to hammer out these, at times ‘hard’ poems

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THE BELINDA LAWRENCE MYSTERIES SERIES by BRIAN KAVANAGH This is the ideal opportunity for a personal introduction to captivating Belinda Lawrence, the beautiful, intelligent, courageous, eccentric, witty and exciting heroine who’s as much a magnet to murder she is to love-struck male admiration. Contained in this exclusive BeWrite Books Ebook Omnibus are the first three novels – unabridged and

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THE MASTERS OF MOBIUS: A MEDIEVAL TIME TRAVEL TRILOGY by HUGH McCRACKEN We promised you a new cut-price ebook omnibus edition of complete trilogies and earlier books in running series in e-bundles of three at more than 40% off combined cover cost of the individual novels, lads and lassies. Also we promised a new e-collection release at least once a week until our current supply of appropriate

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JOYCE McKINNEY AND THE CASE OF THE MANACLED MORMON by ANTHONY DELANO ... THE *REAL* EXCLUSIVE. So, let the fanfares blare, roll out the red carpet, goggle at the stars, wear sun glasses against the pyrotechnics of paparazzi in Sunday best. But it’s time for BeWrite Books to blow its own trumpet, too ... please remember that we beat the high-profile movie moguls by weeks. Tomorrow (July 15)

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We promised last week, so here you go, folks: The first BeWrite Books e-Omnibus of three individual and unabridged works, each with its original cover and in the digital format of your choice from all online ebook stores or direct from BeWrite Books, in a single, quick download ... and at bargain basement price.     Omnibus #1 is Jenny Telfer Chaplin's The Candleriggs Trilogy – complete. It will

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SCREAMS IN THE WOODS by MIKE MARTIN Today's new release from BeWrite Books is a chilling crime thriller ... the gripping tale of a lethal threat that comes to light by chance more than 100 years after the event that lies at its black heart. Christine Lynch is handed a file by her private investigation agency boss. A routine dossier. A year earlier, two local men had suddenly and inexplicably

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INTRODUCING BEWRITE BOOKS OMNIBUS e-EDITIONS You’ve seen them in your local book shop – hefty book bundles at knock-down prices, buy-two-get-one-free offers and what have you. So, for the first time, BeWrite Books is launching e-bundles ... unabridged trilogies, collections of three books in an ongoing series, books by the same single and prolific author, also books grouped in specific genres.

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THE CONFIDENTIAL IS AN EXCLUSIVE NEW JOHN BRAY POLICE PROCEDURAL THRILLER RELEASED TODAY BY BEWRITE BOOKS IN PAPERBACK AND ALL EBOOK FORMATS Dante Falconieri lives in the murky shadows, assigned the dirtiest undercover job of all … trapping fellow cops on the take from crime lords. Dante is the guardian who guards the guardians. But who guards Dante, the lone wolf and the wild card? He's cynical

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JOYCE McKINNEY AND THE CASE OF THE MANACLED MORMON Academy Award-winning movie maker Errol Morris has premiered his latest super-production, Tabloid, in Toronto and London. And – as a star attraction – it will be featured at the world-famous Sundance Film Festival on July 15 ... but the picture still hasn't yet been distributed and released to the general public. Splashed all over the internet,

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Upside-down? What do you mean the world’s upside-down in the graphic here? From a cosmic point of view, there’s absolutely no reason why the earth’s poles shouldn’t be reversed this way to give what we call ‘the southern hemisphere’ a fair crack o’ the whip for a change. The Antipodes has earned its top place through blood, sweat, tears, courage, talent, innovation and endurance against

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A CHILD, A DEATH AND THE MAKING OF THE FAIRY TALE WOMAN BeWrite Books proudly releases today the latest in its ever-growing collection of exclusive sole-authored anthologies from some of the finest poets of our day … Carolyn Oulton’s A Child, a Death and the Making of the Fairy Tale Woman.     These exquisite, intriguing, unique works explore the coming and the going of life … and much of what

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SOME POETS SEE NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON IN THE DIGITAL AGE A Poet Struggles with New Technology Poets often passionately resist ebook presentation of their work, thereby largely limiting its exposure to print copies signed and sold at readings and other cozy events. As a result, poetry books, traditionally, suffer low circulation, sometimes confined to author circle gifts or sales you can

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BB FREEBIES TO MARK AN HISTORIC OCCASION A trophy presented to Iron Foot Jock by HRH  Queen Victoria after his historic flight in May 1836 As you all no doubt know, next week sees the 175th anniversary of the first solo crossing of the Irish Sea in a hot air balloon by my revered ancestor Iron-Foot Jock MacGuffin of Auchenshoogle, Scotland.  Iron-Foot, a renowned haggis-treader (hence the

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One thing we cannot tolerate in a prospective BB author’s manuscript is Deus ex Machina – that magical intrusion on a hopelessly inept plot when the day is miraculously saved by unlikely divine intervention on the desperate hero’s side, like a winning lottery ticket picked up from the gutter by a down-and-out on his way to chuck himself off a bridge somewhere in the closing chapter. But we can

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Re-printed by kind permission of Revel Barker of Revel Barker Publishing and the Gentlemen Ranters website – 'The Last Pub in the Street'. Fleet Street, that is; once the world press hub but now a mere address in London EC4. The website is where we old news hounds bay at the Moon and Stars and gather each Friday in a virtual tap room to swap tales; the long, the short and the suspiciously tall

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The latest royal wedding – set to be watched by a TV audience of billions – is staged on this of all days to draw attention from release of the first ever ebook editions of Anthony Delano’s Slip-Up ... the embarrassing story of the biggest boo-boo by Her Majesty’s Finest since Queen Victoria’s Bobbies let Jack the Ripper slip through their fingers. Somehow, there was a leak at BeWrite Books of

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If you've not yet downloaded the new BeWrite Books toolbar to your browser, just click on the link in the right margin of this blog or in the right margin of the bookstore section of www.bewrite.net.  So what use is it? Lots ... From that neat little bar, now quietly nestled at the top of your browser, you can access any BB blog about your book/s, access the BB website and pull up your title/s,

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Here’s a neat wee promotional initiative Tony has implemented that will do all BeWrite Books’ authors and their readers and reviewers a barrow-load of good. And it takes only a few seconds to put into effective and to powerful use. If you go to the BeWrite Books website at www.bewrite.net or click on the open-book icon at the top right of this post to take you there and open the front page of the

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ATTENTION, FOLKS: Length and ramble warning!!!Save for a coffee break -- if you dare. But this may just interest BB contributors.The past eighteen months' period has seen a series of heartaches, backaches and headaches for the wee team at BeWrite Books … but even seasoned and quite brilliant writers (who really should know better) are using words like ‘gobsmacked’ to describe what we’ve

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What a thought-provoking and admirably researched whirlwind of a mystery thriller is today’s new release from Rosanne Dingli ... According to Luke. It’s a story based on a religious puzzle for the INTELLIGENT reader intrigued by little-known historical fact and who loves the thrills and spills of the thoroughly modern international chase. Its pages are peopled by a cast of truly

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My grizzly guru, Yogi Bear, once told his wee pal Boo Boo (I was eveasdropping):  "You can't fail if you never stop trying." I'll tell you why he's so spot-on right a little later on in this piece and you'll understand why this line came to mind when I started to type. Yogi Bear But gosh, is the BeWrite Books team tuckered out trying! It’s been hectic over the past few months, and these past

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THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS .... And oh what a week that was .... Remember the Millicent Martin 60s TV show intro song? Tony and I have had a frantic seven days over the Read an Ebook Week (RAEBW) ... it’s over, let it go. Enough for one year, already! No more requests for promotional books will be accepted ... until we do this again. Maybe after Christmas. Let’s make our own 'Read A BeBook Week

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HELP SAVE TENS OF MILLION TREES FROM THE PULP MILLSBETWEEN MARCH 6 & 12IT'S READ AN EBOOK WEEK!BeWrite Books has enthusiastically participated in Read an Ebook Week (RAEBW) since the new green-letter day appeared on the calendar in 2004. Last year, we gave away hundreds of ebooks during the annual celebration of the ebook revolution.It did us and our enthusiastic and generous authors no harm.

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Today, we're breaking BeWrite Books blog's tradition to stray from the usual subject of books and publishing ... just a tad. Many of our authors are Australian by birth or by adoption. Many personal friends and ever-close family members live there (my own now entering their fourth generation), on the Fatal Shore that could never defeat them. "She'll be right," has proven to be no empty show of

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FORGIVE US OUR PRESS PASSES BeWrite Books today breaks new digital ground in its exclusive teaming with an innovative print publisher who's launched an exciting new genre ... HACK-LIT. Hack-lit is books by hugely experienced and immensely talented old-school journalists with appeal to a general readership. So, really, it's quietly been around, if unrecognised, for donkeys' years. Journalists

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The second edition of my Bullycide Death at Playtime is released today in paperback and all ebook formats by BeWrite Books (the first time I have published my own work through BB – and yep, it did go through the formal and rigorous submissions process like any other author submission). I’d resisted requests for a re-release since the first mass-run was sold out five years ago, feeling that the

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Author Sam Smith's paperback, Vera and Eddy's War, went digital today. The original was the only title BeWrite Books had ever released in print-only format because of an electronics rights hitch, but demand for ebook editions has been too great to deny, so this magnificent non-fiction work is now made available in all formats from the BeWrite Books bookstore and all major and minor ebook stores

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I don’t know how many of BeWrite Books’s authors are members of the UK-based Society of Authors but it could be well worthwhile joining if you aren’t. Although the annual fee is steep –  currently £90.00 – membership includes associate membership of ALCS (the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society) which sends me a cheque most years for anything between £60-70.00 for  photocopying, etc. So

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“That was the year that was. It’s over, let it go,” to parody the old Millicent Martin TV intro ... though she did express it exactly that way in kissing goodbye to 1963. Gosh ... am I really so long-in-the-tooth now that I can remember every word she sang? And what a year 2010 was for writers, editors, publishers, retailers, readers – the whole book thing we love so much has shot off in a

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My book, Bullycide: Death at Playtime, in which I identified the lethal syndrome of bully-associated child suicide, named it 'bullycide' and exposed it for the first time, is to be re-released in January 2011 in paperback and ebook by BeWrite Books. The original release came as a profound shock and prompted positive and immediate action by governments, education authorities, schools and citizen

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This fascinating article is contributed by BeWrite Books author Steve Attridge, a well-known, TV, theatre and cinema scriptwriter in the UK. His debut novel is 'Bottom of the List'. See our bookstore by clicking on the open book icon at the top right of this post or any major online store. This is a lengthy article of 1,500 words, folks, but well worth the reading. Consolidating Differences, and

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In true bardic style, even Meredith Whitford’s title to her new novel, Shakespeare’s Will, is a pun. The book, released today by BeWrite Books, has little to do with Shakespeare’s last will and testament and everything to do witth his wanton will and his wayward wont. And the pun on Willy’s name doesn’t end there ... but let’s allow readers to discover that for themselves. Shakespeare’s Will is

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Victoria Strauss is the author’s friend. A very best friend. A through-and-through industry pro, who pulls no punches and isn’t afraid to take risks, her long-running Writer Beware blog has, time and again, fingered the wolves and saved countless over-enthusiastic, lesser experienced, perhaps even desperate, authors from becoming fang-fodder in a bloody feed frenzy. All because she knows her way

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Head held high, I’ll admit that I devour every word and line I set my eyes on that touch on the 19th Century American War Between the States: What has become known as THE Civil War. But if you are to read only one novel based on this world-changing tragedy and travesty, it should be The Ballad of Johnny Madigan by John Bray. It is Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage, Andersonville,

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The strangest thing about today’s new release from BeWrite Books is that it exists at all. Irene Thompson – author of The A-Z of Punishment and Torture – I remember from shared Fleet Street newspaper days in London over thirty-five years ago as a gentle, cat-loving, human interest writer of great skill and sensitivity, a ballet dancer of grace, with a tiny country cottage in Kent and who spent

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BeWrite Books today releases Horseshoes by Harry Hughes in paperback and all popular ebook formats. And these horseshoes are certainly lucky for Harry’s readers … they get five extra tales thrown in, because the new book – a long novella – includes five extended short stories. Harry’s Horseshoes follows in the hoofprints of his hilarious (but also chilling) crime novel The Bait Shack, published

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BeWrite Books is proud to announce that The Secret Report of Friar Otto can at last be revealed ... after 750 years stamped as classified information. And that’s a fact! Or is it? In Sam Smith’s latest novel, it’s hard to tell where fact ends and fiction takes over. Maybe it’s all medieval fact because it certainly reads that way – maybe it’s all thoroughly modern fiction because it reads that

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BeWrite Books is delighted to announce today’s release of Heart with a Dirty Windshield, a sole-author collection by Howie Good, one of the most powerful voices on today’s poetry scene. Howie is author of twenty-three poetry chapbooks, including Police and Questions (2008) from Right Hand Pointing, Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks, The Torturer’s Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press

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Thrilling news today that BeWrite Books author Michael McIrvin's The Blue Man Dreams the End of Time has been named as finalist for the huge annual Epic Award. Michael's Blue Man was up against massive and stiff competition in the mystery/suspense fiction section from ebooks entered by publishing houses all over the world. The winner will be announced at the international EPICon Convention in

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As a very much on-the-ball national newspaper crime reporter in an earlier life, I am just a tad embarrassed to be 840 years late in filing the murder story of Thomas Becket in Canterbury in 1170. On the other hand, my breaking news is up to the minute ... that world-renowned part-time detective Belinda Lawrence is on the case as of today. A Canterbury Crime is released by BeWrite Books today,

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Shakespeare had a line for it. "A young man married is a man that's marr'd." (I hope his wife, older than he, hit him upsides the head with a frying pan.) But although I'm neither a man nor young, I've been marr'd. Marred, as we'd say. Neil Marred. You see, Neil Marr is Bewrite Books' editor in chief, and he's just edited my latest novel Shakespeare's Will, and, probably like his other editees,

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We’ve just made three moves that are just a tad scary ... and one that gave me great personal pleasure. ‘Three Nightmares and a Reunion’ will be the title of the film version of this blog yarn. Scary A: We’re about to run with our first ever ebook-only project. We will now see if an ebook really can stand on its own feet without support from paperback and hardback sales. Regular readers and

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Gosh, I'm way behind in updating the blog. Sorry, chaps and chappettes. But ... the weak excuse is also good reason, I think. Hope you'll understand. Those who've been involved recently certainly will.  (And I'll even tell you an anti-Scottish joke at the end to help make up for it.) You'd hardly believe how busy we've been behind the scenes here. It's been 17X7 all summer, and there's no let-up

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We keep very close tabs on discussions among ebook reading folks in various  international forums and websites, large and small, to stay abreast of  ever-developing reading trends, hardware and software technology, etc, and to be aware of problems encountered ... especially problems we can help fix for readers.  (I highly recommend www.mobileread.com, by the way.) Two of the most common

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I've heard it said by men wiser than I'll ever be that if you can keep your head while all around you are losing theirs ... then you simply don't understand the problem. Well, I guess Tony Szmuk and I don't understand the problem, or the current panic in the publishing industry; especially at the small independent houses. Let's see: What don't we understand? Why are we keeping our heads? Why

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There's been the drone of contstant chatter and natter in the press, on TV and radio, on readers' and writers' forums, no doubt in pubs and parlours around the world and certainly in the blogasphere of late lamenting the passing of teenage literacy and sustained reading interest. Some links to follow, but I came across this today at a massive 50,000-member forum for ebook reading folks: More

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Well, as they say, folks ... you read it here first! It's eighteen months since we predicted an ebook reader at less than £100 in the UK and under $100 in the US well before the end of 2011. In past weeks and months, several manufacturers and retailers have already beaten the hundred-buck-barrier over the Shining Big Sea Water and just this week Waterstones in Britain has announced the Sony

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Released today by BeWrite Books is Mark Moehlman's Target Market. Ever wondered what data is being collected and carefully distributed when you casually swipe your card at the supermarket or down at the gym ... and how it's used? The hunt for an online serial killer in the market for targets reveals the chilling answer. Could you be on someone's computer-generated death list? Click on the

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By Sam Smith Good news to break: Brian Rosenberger’s collection, And For My Next Trick, is released today by BeWrite Books. I’m BB’s poetry editor, of course, so I’m particularly proud of this superior piece of work from an outstanding poet. Horror films and heavy metal are not what usually spring to mind at mention of poetry. Flowers, love, a little woe-is-me angst maybe. And then one opens

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By Magdalena Ball I think at heart I’ve always been a rock and roll star. I can’t pick up my guitar or sing along to my favourite tunes without visualising myself on-stage before a rapturous crowd. But it irritates me that the words I’m singing along to are often dumb. Sung or spoken with enough conviction, almost anything can move a crowd. Bush and slam poetry sometimes makes emotive appeal

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There must be almost as many ways to define ‘creepy’ as there are demons in a legion. Is Jan Strnad’s Risen hair-raising? The back of my neck felt like there was an ants’ jamboree in full swing. Does it scare the living daylights out of you? I was too pussy to turn out the lights. Does it make you suspicious about the cake the neighbours just brought round? Tell you the truth; I even secretly

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Every now and a seldom, I get a real bee in my Tam o' Shanter about a book or a writer (or a book and a writer), deserving of much greater exposure, critical acclaim and recognition and a vastly wider readership than a small house like BeWrite Books can hope to achieve -- no matter how hard we try. One such author is Michael McIrvin, one such book is his The Blue Man Dreams the End of Time. I

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There's at least one in everyone's life, I guess ... the chap who, whenever and wherever you arrive, has just left. In the newspaper office, on the story, in the pub, it always seemed to be Revel Barker I'd missed by a whisker. Revel Barker -- I ask ya -- what a name! It took a while, but eventually, it dawned on me that Revel Barker didn't exist at all. He was as real as a house byline in the

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Congratulations to Liza Granville whose new novel, The Tor, is released this week by BeWrite Books. This outstanding novel -- an apocalyptic fantasy with its feet firmly on the ground -- is Liza's third BB title ... and it really has bowled us over. It's also one of the first titles Tony has worked on to produce, as well as the usual high quality paperback, perfect ebook versions in PDF, ePub

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From the fables of Aesop and the earliest books of the Bible, through Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Douglas Adams, this writing life has always been about making words stick. Literature is an inexhaustible goldmine of quotable quotes. One simple line that registered with me recently, though, wasn't from a great man of letters at all, but from hard-nosed business scribe Seth Godin in the US. He

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Art, every kind of art, can be defined by its function. When any music is played as background music it becomes by definition musak. Likewise when painting or the writing of poetry are used solely as a means of self-expression then both become by definition therapy. Now let us suppose that there are only three purposes to writing — to explain me to you, you to yourself, and me to myself. Therapy

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When I was first asked to speak to a Writers’ Group, I wondered what I should talk about. I’m a writer not a speaker and writing is essentially a solitary occupation – you lock yourself away from everyone else and snarl at any interruptions. Lyn and my family knew that.    But there is another side. When you are not writing, you watch, you listen, you take note in writing or otherwise. These are

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Our beloved independent bookstores -- those dusty old treasure caverns of hidden gems -- are  pulling down the shutters faster than china shops during the Pamplona bull run. Like the corner grocer's when a giant Tesco or Wal-Mart opens in town, they just can't compete with the chain gang in the high street and online. These were places often owned and staffed by characters who might well have

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DRM is a four-letter word. At least, it is to most e-bookworms. What jolly japes we have playing around with the initials. My favourite is my own ... DON’T READ ME, because I know so many hundreds of ebook reading folks who will never buy a DRM book on principle. But have a go at inventing your own. Tony, Hugh, Sam and I at BeWrite Books believe Digital Rights Management (the official term) is an

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Hawkeyes among you may have noticed a new section on the BeWrite Books homepage offering freelance editorial, design and technical services ... at a price ... and only if we have time ... and only if we really fancy the job offer. Not exactly the ol' hard sell, eh? But if it's the world's worst advertising pitch, that's OK by us. We really are pretty busy and any freelance work would be handled

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For many passionate readers, there's nothing quite like knowing who wrote what, why s/he wrote it, where s/he wrote it and when. A book, after all, is a very personal interaction between two folks -- an author and a reader. So it's natural to want to know more about the other half of the tete-a-tete. Maybe not as much embarrassingly intimate detail as the tabs and mags bombard us with about our

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Some time ago, I promised not to post reviews in this blog (especially of work not published by BeWrite Books). Other folks do that so much better than I can -- reviews and promises. So to prove that rules are made to be broken and that you can't trust anyone -- not even me -- here's a review. My excuse, chaps and chapettes, is that it's not just a review ... it's encouraging news of a unique

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Back at my desk full time at last -- I'm afraid my recent surgery slowed me down more than I'd expected. And, of course, I'm now fighting a backlog. But while I was pretty well zonked, a lot's been going on at BB, thanks to Tireless Tony and my admirable and hard-working editorial partners Hugh and Sam, with new releases, other books waiting in the wings and others in edit. It's great to see that

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Over recent years, while full scale war has raged in courtrooms around the world, BeWrite Books authors have often asked us why we don't take a stand against Google's Book Search system as the rest of the publishing industry seems to have done. They've sometimes been surprised to find that -- far from resisting Google -- we were among the very first to recognise the their initiative for what it

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Hya folks: Just arrived home an hour ago after rush surgery and a ten-day stay in a clinic in Monaco and, although sitting at the desk will sting a bit for a few more days and my new computer system isn't yet installed, I wanted to drop a quick line through the blog to thank you all for your good wishes.Your support makes for a speedy and optimistic recovery. Laughter may be good medicine -- but

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Guess who's among the very first publishers to have its entire catalogue on offer at Apple's iPad bookstore for the groundbreaking new iPad tablet computer/ebook reader ... yep, BeWrite Books. Through our partnership with Smashwords.com in the USA, all BB titles will be uploaded to Apple on Wednesday (about the same time I'm in surgery for a far less welcome operation) and will start to show very

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It couldn't have happened at a worse time because BeWrite Books is going through the businest period I've known in ten years, but I've got to bow out for a wee while. I just had the last in a string of medical tests and examinations and it's been sprung on me that I must check into a clinic in Monaco on Tuesday for some hefty April Fools' Day surgery -- an old vascular problem that's come back to

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Tony's been working hard for weeks -- often with behind-the-scenes help from Alex -- on the new BeWrite Books website. And just for BB blog followers, he's posted a link here so that you can see how it's shaping up (click on the open book to the right of this message). The main elements are in place but he still has a heap of painstaking work ahead before we're properly ready to go live and start

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Read an Ebook Week officially ended at midnight US Pacific time today, breakfast time in Europe and when most well-fed Australians were dozing off Sunday Lunch. BeWrite Books was happy to see over 600 downloads from its publishers' page at Smashwords. We'd offered twenty-five titles from our catalogue on a pay-what-you-like (or nothing at all), basis so most folks, of course, chose the free

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Eight years ago tomorrow (March 12, 2002), BeWrite Books released its very first title, the hilarious Sweet Molly Maguire by Terry Houston, set in the unbelievably crazy world of Scottish national newspapers in the '70s when Terry and I worked together in Glasgow. The book was launched at Glasgow Press Club where the first one hundred copies were snatched up by journalists who knew that only the

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BeWrite Books is NUMBER ONE on the list of Smashwords most viewed top100 publishers in the history of the massive site ... and we uploaded our catalogue there only two months ago! Not bad, eh. Cheers. Neil

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More than two hundred BeWrite Books ebooks were downloaded in the first twenty-four hours of Read an Ebook Week. All income goes to the Red Cross effort in Haiti, as will anything else we raise over the next six days. Cheers. Neil

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Read an Ebook Week has just officially started in Europe, the US has to catch up, Australia's well into the first day of the event. So you now have another six days to download any or all of twenty-five BB ebooks in whatever digital format you choose and for reading on everything from a PC or laptop to a dedicated device or mobile phone. Pay nothing at all or pay what you like. All income will

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There's a fascinating story and interview by Smashwords CEO Mark Coker in today's Huffington Post on Rita Toews, founder of Read an Ebook Week. http://tinyurl.com/yz2nz4r. BeWrite Books has always supported the event, but this year ... well, what a heck of a week for the BeWrite.net website to be down for reconstruction! Thankfully, Smashwords.com -- one of our leading ebook outlets -- has

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March 7 thru March 13 is international Read an Ebook Week. So starting on Sunday and for the duration, BeWrite Books is offering TWENTY-FIVE of its eighty-plus Smashwords Edition ebook titles (usually $9.00) on a pay-what-you-like basis. This means you don’t have to lay out a red cent to download your chosen ebook/s in any of nine digital formats. But if you can afford even as little as a

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Read an Ebook Week starts on Sunday, March 7. Usually we join in the fun and games of promoting ebook reading in general and BB authors' books in particular with give-aways and special deals. This year, though, there's a hitch because the http://www.bewrite.net/ site is temporarily down for major construction and we can't fix anything from our own store. So we had a wee idea ... A whole bunch of

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Sorry the www.bewrite.net website will be down for a little while. Tony and Alex have migrated all the original site material and Tony will now work on completely re-structuring with some pretty nifty bells and whistles. Please bear with us -- and watch this space for when all's up and running. We have also this week changed our @bewrite.net email server, so please forgive us any hiccups over the

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BeWrite Books has just had official confirmation that we've been accepted by the giant Scribd organisation as one of their very first non-US publishing partners. Scribd is the largest and most prestigious social publishing company in the world. All's a go-go here right now. By the way, apologies to anyone who might have had problems with the www.bewrite.net website over the weekend. It's an

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Fangs ain’t what they used to be at BeWrite Books … thanks to new blood all the way from Transylvania! After six months working behind the scenes, Romanian-born Anton ‘Tony’ Szmuk is now ready to get his teeth into the top spot as BB’s publisher in partnership with editor Neil Marr. Already, forty-eight years old Tony, who now lives in Canada, has proved his value as a talented designer, expert

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Hya Chaps and Chapettes (scribes and readers): We're trying our best to get the BeWrite Books Blog up and running again. This time so that it’ll promote you and your books, your own sites and blogs, buying info, your thoughts, raves and rants, BeWrite Books in general, and be bursting with news and fun to attract the readers ... the guys right at the top of the food chain who determine your value

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