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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…

I remember watching Match Of The Day the week that Trevor Brooking had his hair dyed.  Seven days previously, he’d simply been an ex-footballer turned pundit, a middle-aged man with greying, salt-and-pepper hair. Entirely unremarkable. Now, he was suddenly sporting…

It’s two years since we founded Ignite Books. And it’s been quite a ride. We’ve published four books and three e-books (with more in the pipeline), and had them reviewed in papers and magazines as diverse as The Guardian, Q…