You’ve probably heard more than enough recently about the difficulties and challenges small presses are facing. So here’s a piece in praise of our successes, our small victories, the things we get right. After all, who doesn’t like some good…
Stuck inside Ignite Villas – as a cold, grey, wet Spring dragged on and on and on – we took a look at this website and realised it needed something of a refresh. A revamp. A polish and a wave of…
One of the challenges for any author is getting yourself and your book in front of an audience you hope – you know – will want to spend their hard-earned cash on the literary gem you’ve crafted. Authors signed up…
On Saturday, we were up bright and early to head down the M6 to Nuneaton, and the town’s branch of Waterstones. It’s the home town of UK wrestling legend Scrubber Daly – he was born and brought up a couple…
Today is a quiet day at Ignite Villas. We’re catching up on housework and watching greenfinch squabbling at the bird feeder. It’s just what the doctor ordered after a busy weekend at Wolves Lit Fest, and we’re all for following…
We’re always looking for new ways to promote what we do and publicise our authors’ work. Recently, we’ve been teaming up with local independent bookshops, putting on events where we come along, talk to their audience about what Ignite does…
Happy New Year to you all! (yeah, we know we’re twelve days in already – what can we tell you?) And yes, world news is a horrorshow, but here in this little corner of cyberspace we’re keeping our eyes firmly…
Or – more accurately – currently at the press. The seventh collection of poems from Steve Pottinger will be officially published in January 2024, but is at the printers right now and will be in stock at the Ignite online…
The clocks have gone back, the world’s going to hell in a handbasket, and here we are – still in the business of selling books. We’ve got two things to say about that: Thank you to each and every person…
Yesterday evening, we popped along to Script Haven bookshop in Worcester – we say ‘bookshop’, but it’s a thriving community hub which serves good coffee and great cake and supports local authors, so that one word doesn’t begin to do it…