Who makes the most money from a book sale?

Is your book an expensive hobby or a business? Perceived wisdom states that you cannot make money from writing a book. Sadly, many authors would agree with that!  However, last year in 2024, the UK publishing industry’s total revenue (including all formats—print,...

The Challenge of Being an Author

Each new book is a sacrifice of time and energy. Do we really appreciate what authors do? The most gratifying thing about being a publisher is the opportunity to meet and work with authors covering every possible topic!  I learn so much from being around them! For...

Once Before a Time

Publisher finds a novel way to promote his authors.   Hollywood has been doing it for years. Once a franchise starts to run out of steam, the come up with a Prequel. What happen before the story begins?  With the popular Batman series, they came up with “Batman...

Filament launches a new Faith Books division

Welcome to our new Faith books editor, Rev Andy Roland Over the past twenty-six years, Filament has published a number of books on different aspects of faith and spirituality.  It is well overdue therefore that we better recognise this important  and popular genre by...