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The Story Bazaar Compendium 2015

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The Story Bazaar Compendium 2015, the first, I hope, of many annual compilations of Story Bazaar writing, will be available on Amazon from 23rd December, priced at £5.99 for the paperback edition. The Compendium includes readers’ favourite articles, essays and blog-pieces from … Continue reading

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Galleys and Ornaments

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So to the last stage of publishing The Story Bazaar Compendium 2015 – the galley proof. A ‘galley proof’ is a preliminary version of a publication, so called because in the days of letterpress printing a galley was the tray … Continue reading

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When is a font not a font?

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When it’s a typeface (more of which later). The Compendium will be the first non-fiction Story Bazaar book, but it’s as well that I am learning the intricacies of non-fiction formatting and software usage, as there are more non-fiction books … Continue reading

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Comments gratefully received

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Thank you very much, all those of you who sent comments, many of them complimentary, about The Story Bazaar, for use in the back cover ‘blurb’ for The Story Bazaar Compendium 2015.  I apologise if yours doesn’t make the cover, … Continue reading

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From Gutenberg to Google

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This week I have been working hard to prepare the 2015 Story Bazaar Compendium for publication, designing and formatting the interior of the book and working with the cover designer.  This is the painstaking, technical part of publishing. It is, of course, much … Continue reading