Filament do not provide Self-Publishing.  We are publishers, in the traditional sense, and members of the Independent Publisher’s Guild.  We have been publishing for 25 years and provide Commercial Publishing Services to organisations, and a range of different ‘author-centric’ business models for individual authors to meet their specific needs.  Everything we do is bespoke and individually crafted. One size does not fit all.

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5 Ways to Use Instagram as an Author

by Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine When you hear about networking platforms or building a presence on social media, authors generally talk about Facebook, Twitter, and blogging straight away. Sometimes podcasting and Pinterest are mentioned. But Instagram? We asked our...

With eight million listeners, Janey Lee Grace has spoken to more people in her lunch time than most people will ever do in their lifetime.  Already a multiple best-selling author with five books to her credit, she is well known the Media Spokesperson for the Organic...

Policeman swops truncheon for Caveman’s Club

As a police officer in Swindon, Carl Rosier Jones went to make an arrest only to have a gun pulled on him and shot at him six times. “Fortunately he was firing blanks but I didn’t know that at the time. I┬á heard six bangs and I thought I was dead.┬á It...

Exploiting the Full Potential of the EPUB3 Format

By: Larry Bennett If you are an author or a publisher of books that are not strictly narrative, are your ebooks a mirror image of your print books? Or have you taken advantage of the capabilities that the EPUB3 format provides to offer readers an enhanced reading...

10 Top Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Book Publicist

by Diana Urban Hiring a book publicist can be a worthwhile expenditure if you need help building your bookÔÇÖs platform, or if youÔÇÖd like to supplement your existing marketing efforts or those of your publisherÔÇÖs publicity team. While you might be able to do...