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good news

That title’s not entirely accurate. It should, really, read more good news. Because following on from the great reviews of City Baby on the Louder Than War website and in…

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unmissable

That’s what Louder Than War said about City Baby. They said a lot more, too. In fact, we were tempted to type the whole review out here, word for word*.…

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celebration

Sometimes it does you no harm at all to stop work, step back from the coalface and take a look at what you’ve achieved. This week Ignite Books is four…

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all in it together

At the time of writing there’s just under four weeks till our latest book City Baby is officially published. Hard to believe it’s still under the radar, seeing as we’ve…

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small tsunami

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…

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rebellion

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.…

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thanks

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…

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they’re here!

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…

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launch

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…

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city baby

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…

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world book day

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,…

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