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On Saturday, we were up bright and early to head down the M6 to Nuneaton, and the town’s branch of Waterstones. It’s the home town of UK wrestling legend Scrubber…

Today is a quiet day at Ignite Villas. We’re catching up on housework and watching greenfinch squabbling at the bird feeder. It’s just what the doctor ordered after a busy…

We’re always looking for new ways to promote what we do and publicise our authors’ work. Recently, we’ve been teaming up with local independent bookshops, putting on events where we…

Happy New Year to you all! (yeah, we know we’re twelve days in already – what can we tell you?) And yes, world news is a horrorshow, but here in…

Or – more accurately – currently at the press. The seventh collection of poems from Steve Pottinger will be officially published in January 2024, but is at the printers right…

The clocks have gone back, the world’s going to hell in a handbasket, and here we are – still in the business of selling books. We’ve got two things to…

Yesterday evening, we popped along to Script Haven bookshop in Worcester – we say ‘bookshop’, but it’s a thriving community hub which serves good coffee and great cake and supports local…

One of the major challenges for small presses is how to let as many people as possible know what you’re up to. A loyal customer base is a good starting…

It’s not easy being an independent publisher right now. We’re not the first small publishing house to point this out – it’s a regular theme on Twitter, and a pressing concern…

There’s one thing that connects all the Ignite titles, however disparate and scattergun they may seem to be at first glance. Every last one of them is an example of…

Last Thursday, a bar in Deptford hosted the London launch of Glyn Brown’s book Dancing Barefoot. What was it like? Why would an author put themselves up on a stage…