There's More to Life than Death by Anne Forrest

 

How we came to publish this one

Anne has written several stories for CaféLit. We also have a connection with her through North Wales.

The title

This comes from the title of one of the stories. This is a reasonably common practice.  

Some notes about the process

The book went thought the usual three stages of editing though several of the stories have been published before. We're finding more and more that we still want to edit.   

The cover

The cover illustrates the story after which the collection was named. Terry Mart, the cover artist, is a friend of Anne's.

Some notes about style

Anne definitely tends towards the literary and has also included extracts form her novel, Quinn. These excerpts do work as standalone stories.

Who we think the reader is

These stories are for the thoughtful reader. They are also a good length - long enough to have some complexity but short enough for people who only have odd moments to read.  

What else

Anne has several more publications with connections to North Wales. .   

Review copies

It’s always great if you can buy the book and give us a review. Just click on the link to be taken to our bookshop. If you would like to review and you are strapped for cash, just get in touch for a free PDF or e-book file. 

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Do you have a list of booksellers we can contact directly?

We distribute through Ingram’s. We occasionally work with individual bookshops BUT this is work intensive for us especially as indie bookshops are notoriously bad at paying. The vast majority of our sales are handled by our distributor with some coming through our web site and from authors directly.  

 

However there are lists of booksellers available – Google is your friend.

 

Indie bookshops vary in their enthusiasm though many will support local authors especially if they know you. Cultivate their friendship.  They will often facilitate a book event for you.

 

Some will take books on consignment -  i.e. we supply you with the books, they sell them through their till and we or you invoice them for 65% of the RRP. You scoop up the remainder and use them for the next event.

 

A useful pattern is for you to arrange events ten days apart and top up your supply after each event.

 

To help you with this we can let you have twenty books up front. We call this the author kit.           

Invite to a book launch - Amelie at the Window by Penny Rogers

 

In wartime it is not only the soldiers on the front line that suffer. The families and communities left behind must try to make sense of the conflict imposed on them.

This story is set in a fictional town in France in 1914 and again in 1924. We meet Amelie, a teenage girl confined to her room by polio and her dysfunctional parents. Amelie dreams of release from the restrictions of her life in a room above a hat shop. Through her eyes we meet the townsfolk struggling through conflicts and coping with the fundamental changes that war brings.

We also meet the people that Amelie watches going about their business as the reality of war impacts upon their small town. The aspirations and fears of young and old, poor and prosperous, hard-working and indolent, are noticed by an itinerant photographer who returns in 1924 to record what has changed and what, if anything, remains of the old way of life. He sees possibilities for some and catastrophe for others; no one is the same after the war.

Penny Rogers captures the essence of small town life and the profound effects of war. We see compassion and judgment, humour and tragedy, generosity and selfishness; along with redemption in some unexpected quarters.

RRP 

Paperback £7.00 

Kindle £2.25

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