Scotland’s Colourful Story
Created by a team of over a thousand stitchers in 2012/2013, The Great Tapestry of Scotland is the longest tapestry in the world and one of the most ambitious community arts projects ever [...]
Back in Business!
It’s great to see bookshops reopening – how we have missed browsing bookshop shelves, eavesdropping on other readers’ enthusiasms (and criticisms!) and asking advice of [...]
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Posted XpoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch 2021 – January 15th!
It’s back! The annual XPoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch! We’ll be among the many literary agents and publishers glued to their twitter feeds from 9am to 9pm on January 15th. You can [...]
Coming soon… a new CBeebies series written by Emily Dodd
Slow down, look clearly. What can you see? Writer, artist, science educator, wild swimmer, footballer, traveller and all round have-a-go girl Emily Dodd spent much of last winter writing a ten [...]
GHOSTOLOGY… The Complete Guide to the Study of Ghosts
Ever since Dragonology in 2003, author Dugald Steer has been the ‘ghost writer’ for the majority of the Ologies – Templar Publishing‘s hugely popular and successful [...]
An Amazing Animal Atlas of Scotland
Anders Frang is a freelance illustrator from Denmark. He studied at the Danish Design School in Copenhagen as well as Edinburgh College of Art and he is currently based in Edinburgh. He has been [...]
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Posted Support relating to the impact of Covid-19
Here are some sources of support for writers and illustrators in these challenging times. The Authors’ Emergency Fund launched by the Society of Authors – a joint initiative with the [...]
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Posted Interesting times – stay safe
These are interesting – if tough – times for us all. We’re fortunate in being able to continue to work very much as normal – and the publishing industry has responded [...]
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Posted The January Writers’ Tweet Pitch – why not pitch in?
Friday 10th January sees the return of the popular XpoNorth Writers’ Tweet Pitch – from 9am to 9pm literary agents and publishers in Scotland will be glued to their Twitter feed, [...]
Balloon to the Moon
Gill Arbuthnott‘s latest book – Balloon to the Moon – is a fascinating history of how space fascinated the human race through the ages until eventually they developed the [...]