Author: Katharine Ann Angel
Release Date: 28th February 2012
Format: Paperback (Black and White Illustrations)
ISBN: 978-1-908098-45-0
From the fantasies of Esau to the fantastic tale of Diamondman, Being Forgotten shines a spotlight on the lives of eight 21st Century teenagers. These fact based stories will make you think, feel, react and want to read again. They don’t ask for your sympathy, they just don’t want to be forgotten.
Great stories for general reading includes a discussion section ideal for resource material in an educational setting.
Shipping Rate: A
Top Tips from our Editor Karen
1. Work out your plot before you start writing. Some authors maintain that their books have a life of their own and they don’t have to plot in advance. For the rest of us mere mortals, it’s a big help to know what’s going to happen before we start writing. If we don’t, we run the risk of stalling half way through because we’ve written ourselves into a corner.
2. Remember that your readers only know what you tell them – they are not psychic. Give them clues and teasers about what’s going to happen but don’t make these so obscure that your audience will miss them. When you reread your work, try to see it from the point of view of someone who has never met your characters before. Is your meaning clear? The fastest way to put a reader off is to confuse them!
3. Develop a time line. Put events in chronological order so that you know when they happen – then draw up a chart that shows how these events fit together and pin it up in front of your desk. This is particularly useful if your novel moves backwards and forwards in time, or if it involves a lot of characters. The way that you sequence events for your readers is up to you – maybe you have action in different places happening at the same time, maybe your central character has flashbacks – but you need to make sure that the sequence is clear and your audience don’t lose the plot.
4. Create character files. You need to know your main characters as well as you know your own family if they’re going to become real people on the page. What do they look like? What are their likes/dislikes? What is their history? What do they read/eat/do in their spare time? Start by listing factual information about each character. Add to your dossier by ‘interviewing’ them and noting down what other characters in your book think about them. Include pictures of real people they resemble and places they frequent. (Note to self: not all heroes look like George Clooney however much I might want to have his pictures plastered all over my office wall.) Try to get as much information as you can together before you start your novel and keep referring back to the files.
5. Write every day. Even when you’re busy, even when the self-doubt monkey is sitting on your shoulder telling you that you should take up knitting rather than spend any more time on this writing business, put a few words down on the page. All writers have good days and bad days; the professionals know that however grim you feel, you have to persevere.
Author: Maggi Toner- Edgar
Release Date: 28th February 2012
Format: Paperback (Colour photographs)
ISBN: 978-1-908098-3-82
After running her own design company in the eighties, Maggi spent over 20 years writing, leading, validating and lecturing in Higher Education on Degree and MA courses. Her role in fashion ‘Haute Couture’ and design ‘Textile Craft’ courses and Applied Arts Research culminated in a doctorate, for which this book was a practice-based element. This reflective journal written through adversity, extracted enormous inspirational benefits to fuel the creative artistic process and in addition it offers transformative power in order to deal with trauma.
Shipping Rate: B
Author: Paul Cave
Release Date: 14th February 2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-908098-49-8
Josh Sawyer’s passionate encounter with Anna, a beautiful and mysterious young woman, was one that would change his life forever.
Josh must come to terms with Anna’s deep, dark and terrifying secrets – that thrust him into a nightmare of violence and bloodlust.
Suspected of grisly multiple murders, the couple are forced to flee Chicago, with the police and FBI hot on their heels.
But a more deadly and evil threat is tracking them – Jonus an adversary from Anna’s past.
Anna has something that Jonus wants – her soul, or that of anyone else who gets in his way…
Shipping Rate: A
As you probably know, blogging and Social Media have become very significant ways to spread the word about new publications, upcoming writing projects, latest innovations in audio and ebooks and other related issues. At 2QT we are always looking for ways to support our authors in all aspects of publication and now we can harness the power of the internet in our new Social Media Marketing package (SMMP).
We will be able to market authors work, book signings, promotions and special offers via Twitter @2QTLtd and Face Book 2QT Publishing We will promote to a wide audience, ensuring exposure to potential readers and the buying market. Also included in this package is a 2QT Author Interview to be posted on our blog, giving writers the chance to tell the audience more about their book and themselves.
We’re delighted to announce that Zoë Dawes will be managing the SMMP via Twitter, Face Book and interviews. You may have already come across Zoë via her popular travel blog The Quirky Traveller or the TQT Travel Notes Journal which we published in April 2011. She works for 2QT as a specialist editor and is helping to organise 2QT workshops and events in 2012. One of the things she is most looking forward to is, “Telling the world about the great publications that our authors have written and to shout about the exciting works we will be publishing in the coming year.” You can follow her on Twitter @quirkytraveller and Face Book where she seems to spend a lot of time!
So, to find out more about how we can help you to market your work in a simple, cost-effective way using the latest Social Media technology, contact us here.
