Author: P.S. Bartlett

Writer and Artist in no particular order of importance. They hold hands.
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Best Photo Blog 2014 Winner! Thank YOU.

kaitlinobscura's avatarVisual Individual

Winnah! Winnah!

Wowzaaaa, thank you all so much. Last night this lil blog picked up an award for Best Photo Blog at the Maryland Outstanding Blog Awards (Mobbies) thanks to all of the times you guys voted! It’s nice to receive an award for a blog I dedicate a lot of time and effort to. It’s safe to say that after a little over two years this blog has become apart of my daily routine and has connected me with the communities of photography, journalism, social media and the local Baltimore blogger scene in so many ways.

My acceptance speech went something like this,

“Thank you all so much, I’ll write a more meaningful speech later when I’m safety behind my computer screen.” 

I loathe public speaking, especially when the spotlight is on me. I like talking to people but having a hundred pairs of eyes focused on me makes me a…

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Request for Tour Hosts and Google Whine

jorobinson176's avatarJo Robinson

Firstly, I’d like to find out if any of you guys would be willing to host me for a launch tour for my next book release towards the end of December this year. I would email everything to you, and all you’d have to do would be to copy and paste. Anyone who hosts me would get Mobi copies of all my books, including the new release, just in case you don’t already have enough books, with absolutely no expectation that you read any of them. I’ll add a Contact Me page below for if you’d like to so I can get your email address.

Secondly, the very book I’m talking about is sometimes quite painful to work on, and I occasionally get myself well wound up and in need of an internet fix to get out of the zone. So earlier on I did just that and had a…

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Book Sales: What Happens When Blockbusters Flood The Market?

Tara Sparling's avatarTara Sparling writes

Back to business, ladies and gentlesirs.

Today I want to look at who in the blockbusting big leagues was publishing in 2014, and what the market looked like when they did.

I’ve been wading around in the book data again, my hand on my chin, occasionally contorting myself into an awkward (and poor) imitation of Rodin’s Thinker.

Book Sales: What Happens When Blockbusters Flood The Market? “Are book sales greater in June or July… or is it November… wait, is that a ten euro note?! Which reminds me, I must get toilet paper” Pic: musee-rodin.fr

I’ve spent some time prodding numbers into spreadsheets, sorting them into tables, poking them a bit (but not so much that they lose their shape, because they don’t like that), throwing them into graphs and taking them back out again.

Again, the idea here is to look at Top Ten Fiction Bestsellers in the UK – according to Nielsen and the Sunday Times –

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