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Happy New Year to each and every one of you from all of us here at Ignite! May it be filled with happiness, laughter, and creativity. We’re filling our with plans and schemes. which we’ll be telling you about in…

There’s no great secret to the way we run Ignite. It’s driven onward by an unholy trinity of hard work, enthusiasm, and unquenching desire to go where our curiosity leads. It may be that we’re missing a trick or two…

Xmas is coming. It’s the end of another year where prices keep creeping up, but wages haven’t. Making ends meet can be hard enough if you’ve got a job, all but impossible if you’re not earning, and we know too…

This time next week, we’ll be in Manchester city centre, at the Louder Than Words festival in the prestigious Palace hotel. It promises to be a great weekend – if you take a look at their programme of events there’s bound…

It’s Sunday afternoon. The last Sunday afternoon in September. Most years we’d be turning the heating on, pulling on another jumper, and looking out at cold, grey skies and rain. But today the skies are blue, the light is golden,…

I know it’s been a bit like tumbleweed here of late, but if you were foolish enough to believe that meant there was nothing going on, think again! We’ve been busy. In the middle of August we shipped a huge…

Once in a while, my nan used to say, it does you no harm to sit and count your blessings. And here at Ignite, over the last couple of days, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. Maybe – with summer…

It’s kind of fun, being a small publisher. Every few days we parcel up the latest batch of online orders and wander down the road to our local Post Office to send them on their way. I’m not sure whether…

A lot goes on in a year. Twelve months ago, we took delivery of the first print run of City Baby, which – in case you missed it – is the autobiography of Ross Lomas, bass player with iconic UK…

When we first set up Ignite, one of our major goals was to put money in the pockets of our writers. All too often, the people who should be at the heart of things end up – after agents and…