Nonsense and Fiction
brought to you in equal measures by Ravensquill
A small publisher of adult fiction and illustrated fiction for children ranging from the subtly educational through adventure to pure nonsense.
Can the Twins, Henry and Henrietta recover the brooch from the Great Raven before they are sent off to the charity shop? Follow the group on an illustrated adventure filled with nonsense and puzzles.
Katie tells her the story of this place: of a massacre in the name of religion, of imprisonment, rape, torture and murder. It is a story that comes alive in the telling, as its victims rise up in vengeance to engulf Kate and all around her...
- Selling my 1973 Holdsworth Equipe 15th May 2016Sadly announcing today I am selling my 1973 Holdsworth Equipe, owned from new and bought from their Putney shop.My bike had a recent full service at J. E. James Cycles, Chesterfield, with parts replaced as listed below at a cost of over £200. It is now fully operational, but unfortunately I have discovered I can […]
- My response to Kelly’s Index (author) Efficiency published by TeleRead 21st March 2016Yesterday TeleRead published that response querying some aspects of Kelly Gallagher’s Index of Efficiency, a tool for assessing an author’s future viability (Ie. Whether to ‘keep’ or ‘throw’) that he outlined in a speech at the Digital Book World Conference recently.You can read that response here.I did not attend that conference but read about it […]
- Thoughts occasioned by the death of Umberto Eco. 21st February 2016Reading of the death of Umberto Eco, I came across this quote that resonates with me: “It’s only publishers and some journalists who believe that people want simple things. People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.” (To the former group I might add ‘some agents’?) I find it strange that an […]