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Get the latest news with our Children’s Book Blog. We’re sharing our thoughts on the latest trends in publishing and children and YA books, along with odd musing and update from our award-winning author, Robin Bennett.
How to hoot: books to blogs, soliloquies to social media and publishing in the modern age
Monster Books, as you hopefully know by now, is building up to relaunch in 2018. We are taking on new authors, illustrators and publishers and expanding our catalogue quite significantly. There are talks of stop motion animation productions, charity audiobooks and...
My Week: Cover art, Space Dragons
Monster Books is getting its Spring 2018 catalogue ready, so I’ve been grappling with front covers over the last few days. Like ice skating, eating porridge and shopping for new trousers, it’s an activity I think I should enjoy but, actually, I don’t. I love going to...
My week: Monster Books, for stories you will not find anywhere else
Did you know the UK enjoys the world’s best global export performance for books, with export revenues in 2013 exceeding €1.5bn, compared with €1bn for the US or €331m for Spain? As expected, we translate very little foreign works into English – books from other...
English Folklore For Teenagers & Young Adults
This latest book is in celebration of Picus the Thief - one of the best books vampire books for teens and young adults of 2011. Since Gormenghast and Middle Earth, English writers melding English folklore with European folklore have produced some of the best books for...
Extracts From The Library Of The Great John Thistle
Extracts from the library of the late John Thistle, Esteemed Angleland Faie. Taken from award-winning Small vampires Book Series for teens and young adults. On the rules of magik Everything on Earth that exists is in a state of Being and is therefore aware of Itself...