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published on 2010-08-09
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July was a busy month for us – we’ve done a lot of work behind the scenes to create some great new features over August such as site credits, better promotion tools and personalised journeys to help guide you through publishing and getting the most out of CompletelyNovel. Here’s a quick overview. I’d love to know your thoughts, feedback and any ideas you have around this.
published on 2010-08-06
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A ‘heads up’ that the Brit Writers Award are now accepting submissions for BWA Unpublished 2011.
The official deadline is 5pm (UK time) on Friday 25 February 2011, but they are closing the competition once they receive 20,000 submissions.
The organisation behind the Awards is offering £10,000 to the overall winner which is not a small amount! This year was the first year that they put up the prize and it was won by a children’s book author called Catherine Cooper.
You can check it out here at www.britwriters.co.uk
You can submit up to three pieces of work for a fee of £10.95 (including VAT). But apparently entry is free of charge for entrants who have declared their association to a BWA member school, business or community organisation by using that organisation’s unique BWA membership number.
Did anyone enter the last competition – would be interested to hear your experience of it and whether you would recommend it. Also, if you have any opinions about these kinds o...
published on 2010-06-24
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Just a quick blog post to say that writers, if you haven’t already come across Nathan Bransford you should definitely check out his blog.
Nathan wrote this article in the New York Times entitled The Rejection Letter of the Future Will Be Silence (And Why This is a Good Thing).
He makes a lot of really great points around the way that the publishing industry is changing. In his opinion, it is no bad thing that digital publishing and self-publishing means that there are lots more books available. He doesn’t like the fact that he has to ‘reject’ many manuscripts because they are not commercially viable for him to take on (and therefore trample on the dreams of many an aspiring writer). The fact is that they may have an audience out there, and now it is possible for an author to try and reach that audience themself.
published on 2010-06-08
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CompletelyNovel has changed a bit – here’s a run-down of the changes in case you haven;t spotted them, and also a quick word on what we will be working on over the next few months.
Thanks to everyone who has given us such useful feedback!
published on 2010-05-23
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Some helpful links gathered this week through Twitter, newsletters and general web browsing.
published on 2010-05-16
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Some helpful links gathered this week through Twitter, newsletters and general web browsing.
published on 2010-05-12
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We are very excited to have integrated the print-on-demand (POD) printer Lightning Source into the CompletelyNovel publishing system.
Lightning Source, now part of the Ingram Group is a major POD player and has printed well over seven million books. Lightning Source joins Antony Rowe, part of CPI UK, as one of the printers that you can choose when you self-publish your book through CompletelyNovel.
Lightning Source has print-on-demand facilities in Milton Keynes in the UK and Tennessee in the USA and CompletelyNovel is now connected to both. You will now be able to have your books printed in the USA and shipped directly to your customers over there.
We’re looking for authors to help us beta test our links with Lightning Source. We can offer low printing prices and a great opportunity to grow your market overseas. Contact anna@completelynovel.com f...
published on 2010-02-15
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There are a few apps that the CompletelyNovel Team really couldn’t be without. They are free, easy to use and guaranteed to make your life easier. And they are not just publishing related… if you are a writer, reader or just general human,you should definitely take a look.
Dropbox – recently featured on BBC Click,, this has been a CN favourite for a long time. It’s an online folder that syncs with your computers and means no more emailing yourself docs, or constantly carrying a USB drive.
LastPass – how many websites are you a member of now? How do you remember all your passwords (or not as the case may be)? Now you only need to remember one!
Word Reference – described by Vince at CompletelyNovel as “The most amazing website if you want to translate anything.” A very handy tool for those switching between English and European languages and wanting to get the translat...
published on 2010-02-12
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Another week gone! Here’s a little round up of what the CN team has been up to.
As some of you may know, but others may be completely unaware, there are some fairly large changes coming to CompletelyNovel. We’ve been doing lots of assessment over the past months (and year in fact, since we launched CompletelyNovel to the public)in terms of how people use the site, what we can do to make the publishing process as easy as possible, and how we can help everyone get the most out of the community. We’ve also had lots of feedback from users on the site which has been very helpful in reminding us what the piorities are.
We’ll be giving you more details on the changes as a whole soon, but here are details on what we’ve been working on today, some exciting potato-related news and also a reminder of books published on CompletelyNovel recently that you should check out!
published on 2009-11-09
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Just thought I would pen a few lines about the Society of Young Publishers Conference that is happening this coming weekend in Oxford.
It’s taking place at Oxford Brookes University on Saturday 14th November 2009.
I’m going to speaking at the seminar on Entrepreneurial Publishing along with Davy Nougarede, the Director of Heavy Entertainment Ltd and Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year 2009. Should be fun…hopefully I will see some of you there.
Discuss: CompletelyNovel feature update August 2010:
Hi Oli, I would be keen to know more about the promtion tool you are working on and quite happy t…
Discuss article: CompletelyNovel integrates Lightning Source - Looking for beta testers:
Anna, this is very interesting. I’m planning to self-publish, and have started researching, and o…
Discuss article: Spot the difference: CompletelyNovel updates, June 2010:
Yes I must admit I haven’t been on the site for the last couple of days but already there are eve…
Discuss article: Spot the difference: CompletelyNovel updates, June 2010:
This all looks great. Many thanks to you and Oli (and the rest of the CN team) for all the help a…
Discuss article: CompletelyNovel integrates Lightning Source - Looking for beta testers:
Hi Anna,
Any luck with the Printer set up yet…and news of my US readers?
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