Soapbox

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

There’s plenty going on at Ignite Villas at the moment. For the next few weeks our author Dave Barbarossa is out drumming with Adam & The Ants on the Dirk…

Ever since we published City Baby we’ve been acutely aware that for fans of GBH who live on the other side of the world, getting their hands on a physical…

Every now and then it’s good to take a bit of time off. To walk away from the office and the laptop and the emails, switch off your phone, and…

One of the great things about books is that everyone has an opinion on them. What one person loves, another can’t abide. (Someone out there likes Fifty Shades Of Grey,…