ur 2017 publication, Curses of Scale, by Stephen De. Reeves, has been nominated as a finalist for The Wishing Shelf Book Award 2017 in the books for adults (fiction) category. This is a reader-voted award.
Sarah Davis Goff The book that made my year: We spoke last year about Mike McCormack’s wonderful Solar Bones, which garnered rave reviews and a rake of prizes including the Goldsmiths and two BGE Irish Book Awards. We suspected it was only gathering speed – and we were so delighted when it was longlisted for…
Sixteen-year-old Niena wants nothing more than to attend an elite bardic college, but when the dragon that shattered the empire awakens again she finds herself on the run, through the fey realm of Fairhome, to the city where she was born. On her trail are her army veteran grandfather, thrown into a commander’s role he…
Sulis Academic Press publishes scholarly and academic titles under the general imprint of Sulis International Press. These include titles in theology, law, and other academic fields. We publish books, monographs, and journals. Sulis International Press also publishes reprints of important works in those areas, especially older works that are not readily available in print or…
The debut novel from author Markus McDowell, this literary work is a re-imagining of an old-fashioned story of grief and the search for meaning in a world that seems not only uncaring, but vindictive. To and Fro Upon the Earth is a captivating (and disturbing) story about a man who rejects the common answers to…
Here is an interesting article from the Harvard Business Review on the effects of storytelling on the brain. Here are some excerpts: Many business people have already discovered the power of storytelling in a practical sense – they have observed how compelling a well-constructed narrative can be. But recent scientific work is putting a much…
Writing a bad first draft can help you avoid writer’s block. Instead of trying to write a good first draft, just focus on creativity and write. Edit later!
Have you ever used Microsoft Word’s “readability statistics” function? It gives your document a score, as a grade level, based on something called the Flesch-Kincaid analysis, which purported to be the grade level a reader would have to have attained to understand the piece. How helpful or accurate is the function? Turns out it s…
Publisher Sulis International is seeking submissions for all imprints: Sulis International Press General and academic nonfiction Keledei Publications Non-fiction religion Legal Yankee Publications Nonfiction legal education Riversong Books: Fiction How is my book distributed? We supply print books to Amazon.com (worldwide) and Ingram (worldwide), and will also be made available to all online stores, brick-and-mortar stores, and…
In our last post, we discussed and linked to an article about the importance of multiple editing rounds. As noted, we do in-house proofreading for our authors, and offer more detailed editing services to all writers (whether signed to us or not). As proof that typos make it into even the most popular works, here…