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Yesterday morning, a palletload of boxes containing the second print run of Emma Purshouse’s novel Dogged arrived at Ignite Villas. Huge thanks from us to everyone who’s bought a copy…

One year ago, at Wolverhampton Literature Festival 2021, we launched ‘Dogged’, the debut novel from performance poet and writer Emma Purshouse. The book wasn’t officially published until the start of…

We’ve always held that Brexit was a really, really, really bad idea. Nothing that’s happened since has suggested we were wrong, and there’s been plenty of evidence – truck queues,…

The last couple of years have been difficult for everyone* and we’ve really missed being able to get out and about to promote our books, and – above all –…

Happy New Year, folks! We haven’t a clue what it’ll bring – though today’s sunshine and blue skies are incredibly welcome, and (we hope) a reminder of brighter days to…

It’s that time of year again. The days are short, the sun has set by tea-time, and the Xmas book-buying rush is almost over. Soon we’ll be putting our feet…

Yes, it’s Black Friday and we’re writing a blog, but please don’t think for one minute that we’re participating in that merry-go-round of nonsense. It’s a marketing ploy for the…

The fag end of the year traditionally means three things: sprouts, mince pies, and some degree of frenzied shopping in the run up to Xmas. 2021’s heady combination of Brexit-related…

It’s always a boost to morale to start the month with some good news, and we’re kicking off September with the happy announcement that we’ve placed an order with the…

This may not look like much to you, oh readers of our blog, but for us this crumpled polythene wrapper represents success. It means that yet another pack of Emma…

It’s always an adventure, this independent publishing lark, and we never know quite what doors are going to open for us, quite what connections we’re going to make, quite what…