Cillian Press

01/10/2018

Some very successful authors will be appearing at festivals and events around Britain this coming month. If you’re looking for inspiration and professional tips from some of the masters of their trade, here are some dates you might want to mark on the calendar.

Birmingham Literature Festival: 4-14 October

Writing a novel masterclass with Richard Skinner One-to-One Fiction Surgeries with publishers and editors.

Cheltenham Literature Festival: 5th-14th October

Creative writing workshops

Frederick Forsyth - Day of the Jackal and too many more to mention - and Frank Gardner - author of best-selling Ultimatum - talking about writing edge-of-the-seat thrillers.

Liverpool Literary Festival: 19th-21st October

The mighty Val McDermid talking about writing crime fiction. She has sold 15 million books!

Manchester Literary Festival: 5th-21st October

The great Pat Barker talking about her new novel The Silence of the Girls

Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - he has sold
over 40 million books, translated into 46 languages! and many, many others.

Best wishes from the Cillian Editing Services team.

A novel is a relationship, a place outside of time where both reader and writer are challenged and validated, stretched and rewarded.

18/08/2018

Sorry to hear that TI Media, the new owners of 100-year-old print-veteran Women’s Weekly, appear to be bringing in a policy of bullying their writers. Not only have they cut their short-story fee from £150 to £100, but new contracts will specify that authors sign away all rights, current and future, to their work. So that £100 is not only a fairly paltry sum, it’s a one-off, once-only, never-to-be-repeated paltry sum.
Here at Cillian Press we know that publishers need writers as much as writers need publishers. It’s a partnership, not a chain-gang!

06/08/2018

Nick Drnaso’s "Sabrina" is the first graphic novel to be long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Probably not the last. Good luck from the Cillian Press team!

09/07/2018

Thank you to Michael Ondaatje for thanking “small presses everywhere.”

09/07/2018

Congratulations to Michael Ondaatje from the Cillian Press team!

06/07/2018

Happy 50th birthday to the Booker Prize from the Cillian Press team, and good luck to the authors shortlisted for the Golden Booker!

25/04/2017

http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/events/virginia-woolf-talk-susan-sellers

Part of the University of Cambridge, Lucy Cavendish College is the College where women over 21 and from every possible background come to study and to transform their lives

02/09/2016

Voting has opened for the indie book awards and you can vote until midnight 11th September.

You can vote multiple times but only once a day.

Please help support Joe Kipling and Blinded by the Light. She's in the dystopian fiction category - http://www.poll-maker.com/poll533523xe37d4b0E-22 (about halfway down the screen)/.

Voice your opinion on the poll: Favorite Dystopian Book

31/08/2016

Just a reminder that the voting opens tomorrow for the Indie Book awards 2016

I'll be posting the link :-)

16/08/2016

Arrived home today to find a lovely email telling me that Blinded by the Light had been nominated for an Indie Book Award in the Diversity category.

Voting starts 01 September so make sure you have your fingers on the buzzer.