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Original artwork for the Bookwright site by Lefteris Heretakis - illustrator & designer, lecturer in Graphic Design @ Bradford College.
Lefteris designs and typesets books that visually resonate with the reader.To find out more about his work, read this blog

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You Thought You Had 5 Seconds

When people repeat the same thing often enough it can enter the common psyche and be assumed to be true.

A good example might be an urban myth like the lemmings jumping off a cliff. It’s now equally well known (or thought as such) that this was a staged scene in a Walt Disney friendly critters-type [...]

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Flavours of Thought: Recipes for Fresh Thinking

NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE KINDLE AND KINDLE READER
- for Kindle, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry & Android
This book is a book of transformation.
We go about our days not giving our thoughts a second thought. This is a real shame as our thoughts fundamentally changes the world around us.

In Part 1 Flavours of Thought, our thoughts processes are [...]

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The anatomy of a click through

When we click on a link, we don’t give it a second thought – especially these days when we are presented with 100′s if not 1000′s of potential hyperlinks each day.
Links nowadays are not limited to those on web sites or in email newsletters. They abound in Twitter tweets and on Facebook Walls.
Knowing how and [...]

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The Book You Were Born to Write

It’s a cliché I know but it’s said there’s a book inside everyone. In my experience, once the first one comes out, a veritable flood ensues and there is no stopping a writer.

This particular Bookwright specialises in the “book” of the author’s life with the printed (or ebook) being a kind of by-product. In turn, [...]

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Words Become Things

I am sure you are familiar with the phrase “thoughts become things”. Well, if you think about it, transferring your thoughts into words on the page has the effect of storing your thoughts on paper, on computer or on the web such that others can pick them up.

In my book Blocks, I [...]

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We are not a-mused

One thing I really I love the English language is that its etymology and construction tells us so much about the inner workings of our minds which is, on first take, sometimes obscured.

For example, when Queen Victoria said “We are not amused”, I obviously wasn’t present but it tells us something about her state of [...]

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iPadivity

So I’ve had an iPad for two weeks and loads of people have asked how I use it and what I’m using it for.
Or if it’s just a bit of a toy?

Well I’ve discovered using this new type of tablet (and watch this space for the clones) ushers in a whole modus operandi.

In short, it’s [...]

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The iPad: a writer’s toolbox?

It’s arrived at last and it was definitely worth the wait. My decision not to buy one of the excellent ereaders like the Kindle or the Cool-er has proved to be right. My e-Writer has arrived in the form of an iPad.

From a creative writer’s perspective, just being able to read on the go is [...]

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7 Brilliant Resources for Writers

If you’ve read the blogs on the Seven Things that Stop & Start You Writing, here’s Seven Indispensable Resources for Writers that once you start will keep you going.

Resource 1: You

Your life experience, your wisdom, your feelings,  your domain expertise and your understanding of the world are the essential ingredient into making your book unique. [...]

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Why authors should draw

I’ve just finished reading an excellent book by Cat Bennett called The Confident Creative.

I do remember being quite good at art when I was at school but got thrust down the academic route and now I’m one of those people who’s drawings look like they are done by a 7 year old.

I would dearly [...]