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We’ve been banging on for weeks about how many of you have told us you couldn’t put City Baby down, or how you read it from start to finish in one sitting. Then we had a brainwave. Why not create…

So, Ignite comes back from a week away on the south coast where we did our level best to make sure the local pub landlords manage to scratch some kind of living from selling beer, and are we refreshed and…

This will very likely be the shortest Ignite blog ever. Blink, and you’ll probably find it’s gone sailing past you into deepest cyber-space without you even realising it was there. We just wanted to say thanks. Again. This time to…

It’s been quite a weekend. The City Baby launch night at the Adam & Eve in Birmingham was one of those perfect nights it’s impossible to reproduce and which grows ever better with the telling. A packed pub, some great…

Yesterday evening a man in a van delivered the copies of City Baby to Ignite Villas. They look absolutely mint! Better than we could ever have dared to hope, from the strikingly bold cover right through all 320 pages*. We’ve…

So, the plan was that the printers delivered the copies of City Baby tomorrow, and we shipped out all the pre-orders of our newest publication on Friday afternoon. Yesterday they rang to say there’s been a delay, and we won’t get…

There’s an amazing amount of work goes into creating a book. The business of editing, typesetting, and designing a cover is – on its own – enough to eat up an incredible amount of time. On top of that, we…

Today – and I’ll be honest, it was news to me when I heard of it first – we’re celebrating World Book Day. Which is no bad thing. After all, any opportunity to celebrate the power of literature and the…

When we were first setting up Ignite, the one thing we were desperately short of was expertise. We had an idea of what we wanted to do, and a vague inkling of how it might be possible, but the realities…

It’s nice to have the opportunity to share your expertise every once in a while. And last Thursday, that’s just what Ignite Books did. We may only have been up and running for three years, but underpinning that are two…