Will the self-publishing bubble burst – and how do readers find good self-published works in the digital marketplace.

The competition platform is now open for entries and the deadline for uploading entries is 15 April 2012. The longlist will be announced on 30 April with final judging leading up to the Towel Day announcement on 25 May 2012.

It is Saturday 16 April 2011.  Richard and I fly to Vienna to meet Michael Embacher, the author of Cyclepedia.  more »

The writer’s job remains to enable the reader to experience and understand the story world via character – the human experience.

Material Conditions aims to explore what it means and takes to be a professional creative practitioner – from the personal to the social and political.

Firstly, we all love books. Of the team involved in the publishing side of the business, I studied English at university, as did Will and Natalia, and Fiona’s Clapham flat is stuffed with books. It’s not just a love of story. It is a love of the physical objects themselves.

I think the ebook is the perfect format to afford writers this freedom again. It’s not about what’s ‘fit for print’, it has some of the spontaneity and freedom of a blog but instead delivers a bound electric experience, unencumbered by the demands of print distribution channels.

…when mainstream publishing and bookselling seem to become ever more stolid and monolithic, it is important for someone to champion that diversity…

It’s nearly Christmas. You should be shopping, we should be shopping, but for some reason certain ‘busy types’ are still more »

Deciding on the winners for this year’s New Media Writing Prize, organised by Bournemouth University, was no easy task for more »