Our founder, Neil (now known as 'Neil the Younger'), is off on a long walk starting this weekend to raise funds to help sufferers of Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and to aid research into this disease. He is doing it with a group of friends. Decades ago they all worked together. Now cards, sport, fun, food and drink provide the...

What a year.  Hopefully one that will never be repeated. It has changed the way we live and the way we interact with each other. Outside of my own home, I personally miss engaging with my family and friends.  I miss the big things like being able to meet, to talk face to face, to hug or seeing their real...

We have mostly all found that we have had time on our hands during the recent lockdowns that have happened across our world.  Without the ability to do some of the things in life that keep us happy or occupied, you will have found more free time ... even if you had been working in a 'long-hours' care role. Hopefully...

Sadly for us  there will not be the glitzy award ceremony in New York this year due to Covid-19 stopping us all in our tracks, but that isn’t going to stop us celebrating THE GREAT ALIEN CAKE OFF winning BRONZE in the Best Children’s Picture Book Category at the INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS 2020. What are the Independent Publisher Book...

Never has there been more of a need for us to be kind. To our partners, our children, our neighbours and ourselves as we have found ourselves isolated and distanced from our friends and loved ones for the longest duration in any of our lifetimes. Many people struggle with mental health issues and this challenge has been exacerbated this year...

Dear Friends The health of our families, friends and colleagues is of the utmost importance to us. We are continuing to monitor the current situation with the COVID 19 situation and are working hard to ensure our employees and partners are kept safe, healthy and secure. Times are hard and we may not be able to visit our loved ones...

Big Hurrah! FROM YOU TO ME have been short-listed for the British Book ‘Small Press of the Year’ Award with the winners to be announced in May at a prestigious evening in London. We are so proud to receive this recognition. It is a real accolade for our team and our authors who work so hard to produce wonderful products...

We have just signed a new partnership agreement with French publishers Editions de la Sarriette to distribute French versions of our award-winning journals and books across France. Our new partnership is with a similar family business based in a small medieval village just outside Monaco. The French have a strong affinity for family and 'patrimoine' (heritage) so the owners of...

Helen B, Consumer Communications Champion at from you to me and mum of two boys, introduces My Summer Rant & Rave - our summer writing competition for primary aged children - and explains the motivation behind it.  In the US the term ‘the summer slide’ is pretty well known, as for here in the UK we might be more familiar...

Brian Patten, author of the beautiful The Book Of Upside Down Thinking, joins us once again as a guest on the blog to give us a further insight into his magical new collection of humorous and thought-provoking verse, in this post looking at interpreting the stories. There is no one interpretation or ‘meaning’ to a Djuha story and there are hundreds of stories. The first ones...