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Publishing Success in Ireland, Part Five, Summing Up
This series has been an exciting and interesting one for me to write and research. The first four parts are the real meat. You can read them one by one: Publishing Success In Ireland, Part One...
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Sometimes You Just Get A Feeling
Colm & The Lazarus KeySome time ago, while I was still working at Mercier Press, probably back in early 2008 in fact, I read a submission. It was for a book by a young man called Kieran Mark...
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Working Hard, Getting Rewarded
Donal Skehan may just be the hardest working author/blogger/chef/popstar I know (though I know few enough that meet that exact definition). He has really been working himself to the bone the last while...
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Blood & Thunder ~ Martina Devlin: Drumming up enthusiasm for the Glorious...
Blood & Thunder: Inside An Ulster Protestant Band was one of the books I commissioned towards the end of my time at Mercier Press. It sounded like it was going to be a cracker and the author...
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Quick Link | Verbal Magazine Review Of Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader
Always nice to see one of my commissions getting a review, however late after release. Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader is the third book by the very talented Pat Walsh. His previous two were also...
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Things I Like | Liffey Ships and Shipbuilding – Pat Sweeney | The Irish Catholic
Nice review in The Irish Catholic for Pat Sweeney’s Liffey Ships & Ship Building, one of my commissions while at Mercier Press. The book is not only the result of very detailed archive research, it...
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Making Things Happen: The IPN Premium Annual Report On Irish Publishing
This series is designed to talk about some of the things I’ve been lucky/crazy/happy to get shipped (as Seth Godin might put it) in the last few months. The first post talked about The Irish Story’s...
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A Writer’s Ire Misdirected & An Odd Counterpoint
Transworld Ireland gets quite a battering from Aiden O’Reilly’s 21 December open letter. He lambasted publisher Eoin McHugh* with a wonderfully amusing paragraph: I decided not to bother sending my...
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Putting Things In Perspective | E-book sales data, the truth is out there |...
The Bookseller released publisher sourced data on ebook sales. There’s reason to be somewhat skeptical of the information in the sense that it is seller supplied and while non-one is saying it, there...
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Go Read This | Is This The End For New Zealand Publishing? | Stuff.co.nz
Really wonderful piece over in The Dominion Post about book publishing in New Zealand. It has serious echoes of the Irish market and many of the same problems crop up for the publishers there. I wrote...
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