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From the diary of a writer-publisher: 17

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Patrick Miles

24 January 2022 I have received several emails commiserating with me over my ‘anxiety’ and ‘nightmares’ about marking examination papers. The writers clearly assume I am Dr Robinson in my story Ghoune — that the story is strictly autobiographical and … Continue reading →

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From the diary of a writer-publisher: 16

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Patrick Miles

17 November 2021 Today at 9.54 a.m. I emailed my 408-line poem Making Icons to the excellent Long Poem Magazine, the only organ in Britain that publishes poems at least 75 lines long. The magazine appears twice a year and November … Continue reading →

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Edna’s Diary: the background

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Patrick Miles

Sometime in 2012 Harvey Pitcher asked me if I would give a talk the following March to Sheringham Stroke Group, of which he was Secretary. It was an attractive invitation, especially as there is a history of Stroke on my … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, aphasia, Aphasia Awareness Month, Clare Ungerson, Edna Miles, Edna's Diary, Erich Reisfeld, Fleur Taylor, frontispiece, Harvey Pitcher, hip operations, Sandwich, Sheringham Stroke Support Group, Stroke Association UK, stroke clubs, The Holocaust, The Kitchener Camp, The Third Reich, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yours | 2 Comments

There!

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Patrick Miles

To our astonishment, Amazon suddenly announced to the world that Edna’s Diary had been published on 6 May — which was before they had told us it had been accepted! So here it is, folks, fully available now in ‘real time’: … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, aphasia, Aphasia Awareness Month, book covers, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, Edna Miles, Edna's Diary, independent publishing, publishers, Sam&Sam, self-publishing, speech and language therapy, Stroke, Stroke Association UK, strokes, Tippex | Leave a comment

Nearly there…

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Patrick Miles

We have now signed off our fourth proof of Edna’s Diary from Amazon. Really, the last two proofs were necessary only to tweak the back cover. I think this is often the case: you can rapidly get the contents right, … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, Amazon KDP, aphasia, Aphasia Awareness Month, book covers, cover designs, Edna Miles, Edna's Diary, proofs, quality control, Sam&Sam, self-publishing, speech and language therapy, Stroke, Stroke Association UK, Tippex | Leave a comment

From the diary of a writer-publisher: 14

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Patrick Miles

1 February I received an email from Sam1 (Russia) in a Moscow hospital. His whole family has gone down with COVID. The others are coping with it at home, but he was rapidly losing lung capacity and had to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, Andrew Tatham, Anton Chekhov, aphasia, Aphasia Awareness Month, Barack Obama, biographies, Black Crow, Calderonia, comments, coronavirus, COVID-19, D.H. Lawrence, diaries, Edna Miles, Edna's Diary, George Calderon, George Calderon: Edwardian Genius, Harvey Pitcher, high blood pressure, John Pym, Ken Russell, language therapy, NHS, Russia, Sam&Sam, Sam1, Sam2, Sputnik, Stroke, Stroke Association UK, strokes, William Blake, Women in Love | 4 Comments

From the diary of a writer-publisher: 13

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Patrick Miles

18 December It feels like a new record: a week has passed since our, in their own words, ‘very striking’ advertisement of George Calderon: Edwardian Genius appeared in the TLS, and it hasn’t brought us a single sale! The line between self-justification … Continue reading →

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From the diary of a writer-publisher: 10

Posted on May 22, 2020 by Patrick Miles

7 April Walking home the three quarters of a mile or so from the centre of Cambridge, I saw six people and no cars. As in Georgio de Chirico’s surreal paintings, people are now weirdly visible even from a distance … Continue reading →

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From the diary of a writer-publisher: 6

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Patrick Miles

6 December Our post office is inside the local supermarket, and next to the queue is a stand with all the British newspapers. In an Orwellian spirit of studying what people across the whole political spectrum are thinking, I occasionally … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged agnosticism, Amazon, And now the coffin has been lowered, biographies, biography, birds, Calderonia, death, East-West Review, eschatology, Fedor Tiutchev, Four Funerals and a Tyutchev Poem, I grob opushchen uz v mogilu, John Dewey, Labour Party, Lutheranism, Mirror of the Soul: A Life of the Poet Tyutchev, Morning Star, obituary, Protestantism, Russianists, self-publishing, translation | 2 Comments

A signing

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Patrick Miles

Alison baked a perfect Victoria sponge and last Wednesday we took it along for tea with John Polkinghorne and his carer. He likes a nice cake (foregrounded in the photograph below). The five of us had a very lively conversation … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Alison Miles, Amazon, book launch, Jim Miles, John Polkinghorne, sales, Sam&Sam, Sam2, signing, tea, typesetting, Victoria sponge, What Can We Hope For? | Leave a comment

Guest Post: Alison Miles on ‘What Can We Hope For?’ from the edge of the epicentre

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Patrick Miles

John Polkinghorne lives near us and we have known him for many years. In 2015 the Church Times published an interview in which he answered questions about science and religion put to him by my husband, Patrick. It celebrated John’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Alison Miles, Amazon, Amazon UK, Clays of Bungay, cosmology, cover designs, Dialogues about the Future, editing, eschatology, James Miles, Johannes Gutenberg, John Polkinghorne, Kettle's Yard, mathematical physics, Naum Gabo, Patrick Miles, philosophy, Poland, print on demand, proofs, religion, Sam&Sam, science, The Church Times, theology, transcription, voice recording, What Can We Hope For? | 2 Comments

Guest Post: Sam2 on… ‘How to Typeset A Second Book’

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Jim D G Miles

The final act of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev concerns a boy and a bell. In this hour-long conclusion to the film, the son of a deceased bellmaker persuades his village that the father bequeathed to him a secret bellmaking recipe. He … Continue reading →

Posted in Modern parallels, Personal commentary, Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Amazon KDP, Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, biographies, Chris Johnson, Church Times, comments, George Calderon, George Calderon: Edwardian Genius, James Miles, John Polkinghorne, Kindle Direct Publishing, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Patrick Miles, PDF, publishers, Sam&Sam, Sam1, Sam2, TeX, TeXWorks, typesetting, What Can We Hope For? | 6 Comments

Publication!

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Patrick Miles

All of a sudden things went right with Amazon, and we have received our first customer copy of What Can We Hope For? Dialogues about the Future. The book is ONLY available from Amazon, i.e. by print on demand. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, book formats, Clays Ltd, cosmology, James Miles, John Polkinghorne, Patrick Miles, printing, publishers, Sam&Sam, Sam1, theology, typesetting, What Can We Hope For? | Leave a comment

…and two back covers

Posted on September 16, 2019 by Patrick Miles

By the time you read this, Sam&Sam’s new book should be available through Amazon. No, I can’t say that… The penny has finally dropped: having Amazon print your book is a complete, utter, irreparable and gut-wrenching break with the previous … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, back covers, Clays Ltd, Donald Trump, George Calderon: Edwardian Genius, images, John Polkinghorne, Nielsen Corporation, PDF files, Poland, printers, proofs, publication dates, publishers, quantum/chaos, Sam&Sam, What Can We Hope For? | Leave a comment

A tale of two front covers

Posted on September 9, 2019 by Patrick Miles

By the time you read this, Sam&Sam’s new book should be available through Amazon. I say ‘should’ because publishing a book through Amazon has been yet another fresh learning curve for us and sometimes we just had to wait to … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal commentary | Tagged Amazon, book covers, Clays Ltd, Dante, design, eschatology, Gabo Trust, James Miles, John Polkinghorne, Kettle's Yard, Kindle Direct Publishing, Naum Gabo, publishing, Sam&Sam, Sam1, Sam2, Tate Gallery, typesetting, typography, What Can We Hope For? | 2 Comments

The ‘mystery’ Misses and Misters

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Patrick Miles

The academics are off campus now until September/October, when Sam&Sam plan a new marketing storm in their direction, so we are concentrating on selling boxes of six copies to more bookshops. If you know any near you who might be … Continue reading →