Eventispress are signing off today until the New Year when we have good news and new publications for 2023. Our authors are brimming with ideas for both writing and marketing and we’ll see some new faces joining us too.
Have a Very Merry Christmas
Keep Warm.
Watch out for others.
Spreading a little kindness,
goes a long way to put smiles on faces.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
FROM EVENTISPRESS
Should we be worried about the changes in Copyright regulations in the UK? Click on the article:
Text and Data Mining as a Copyright Exception by Porter Anderson @ The UK Publishing Association
New warning about the increase in the price of paper:
See Publishing Perspectives excellent post.
Amazon dipped its toes in the world of bookstores. Here’s how it went:
‘Down but not Out’ by Terry Madelev from Leeds.
What would the possible merger of  Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House be on the publishing world?
It has been our busiest year ever at Eventispress. We are a collective publishing company ran by authors. Everyone has their say in the business and everyone contributes. We are all individual authors but we are not alone.
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OK, this scroll through summer news in the publishing world is by no means exhaustive. Please drop us a link in the comments if you know more.
All of our recent publications are now available for bookshops to order through Gardners.
A thought struck us at Eventispress is that we warm to certain elements in stories and firstly that:
‘the characters need to be believable so that readers can identify, empathise with, warm to or be repelled by them.’
Whether the novel is loosely termed crime, historical fiction, dystopian or mystery, all of the novels we release are weighted heavily on genuine characters. You don’t always have to like them, but we promise you that you will feel their pain, their joy, their frustration ~ in fact every human emotion. You may laugh out loud or be in sobs of tears. You may pick up the book and find it hard to put it down, but we hope that some of the characters therein will live with you a while after you leave their make believe world.
For crime you will not see too many car chases and for murder you will not have scenes that are so graphic you can’t sleep.
For historical fiction you will not see a real person from the past brought alive in the written word, but imaginary characters set in an authentic period in history. (unless loosely based on a true murder as in MURDER Now and Then)
For mystery it is less the police involvement in the crime and although there are certainly mysteries not revealed until the end, it may not be the reason you are compelled to keep reading. (as some readers have mentioned in their wonderful reviews)
For dystopian you will not read about elves or folks from outer space in an imaginary world, but believable people with real lives entangles with a plausible (well almost) future, not of their own choosing.
In Roderick Hart’s crime novel Interleaved Lives you will identify with the lives of people struggling to find the truth of what happened to their missing spouses, gaining some solace in each other’s company, rather than gritty police procedure.
For dystopian in Ian K Pulham’s Ticket to Eden there are monsters in the depths of the sea, but they are almost believable and their interaction with the characters in the story almost amusing at times, if it wasn’t so hauntingly disturbing. Also, the web of confusing relationships Ian weaves, as the world loses its grip on any future, is unsettling, and yet there is almost an inevitability but poignancy to it.
In Diana Jackson’s mystery inspired by history series, it is yet again the web of relationships and mixed aspirations which lead to murder in MURDER Now and Then, added to the complex parallels with the past, which compels the reader. In MISSING Past and Present readers tell us that they are desperate to find our how Dot brings herself up from rock bottom. Yes, her husband is missing, as his her step son, but it is the relationships Dot builds which make a tragic story so heart warming.
…And so, in our fiction at Eventispress expect the characters to lead you into their world ~ one you may be reluctant to leave behind when you reach the last page … and do let us know what you think and write a review.
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Much appreciated!
Continuing with marketing tips here on Eventispress, three of our authors are giving away short stories and encouraging readers to sign up for their newsletters:
Ian K Pulham’s Radical Action, is a standalone prequel to Ian’s debut novel Ticket to Eden:
Roderick Hart’s Back to the Wall, which includes some of the characters in his recent novel Interleaved Lives:
Author Diana Jackson’s short story is unrelated to her novels but has a quirky title, A Very Yellow Memory and like much of Diana’s work is fiction but has fragments of truth much in the flavour of The Healing Paths of Fife:
As most businesses we at Eventispress have ‘met’ regularly on Zoom during the last couple of years, both as a whole group and in two’s, for particular in depth discussions, guidance and support. These meetings have been vital and energy giving, when the author’s life, especially during this pandemic, has been quite a lonely one.
‘You are the only people in my life I can really talk about writing issues with. My family and friends care, but they just don’t really understand,’ remarked one author.
We are pleased to say that our first ‘face to face’ meeting of our Bedfordshire contingent is taking place shortly. We hope it will help to:
The list could go on and on. Joining a writer’s group is similar but has a slightly different focus. More about that in another post. All of us at Eventispress have a goal to promote the Eventispress brand, as well as our own books. This is far easier than purely self promotion, where everyone benefits and everyone contributes.
Ian K Pulham’s novel Ticket to Eden’ is now available in paperback on the Waterstones website and can be ordered through any good bookshop. If you do, then please mention us here at Eventispress.
Here’s the link: WATERSTONES
We realise that every bookshop cannot hold every book in stock and therefore would like to thank Waterstones for their support over the years:
Note from author Diana Jackson re the last post:
Many thanks for the warm and positive response to her author talk to Kirkcaldy Probus last week. Much appreciated!
At Eventispress, we are excited today to announce the launch of
Roderick Hart’s novel is now in paperback on Amazon:
CONGRATULATIONS ROD!
Soon to be available to order in bookshops too.
(work in progress on this website)
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