by Ben Hourigan | Apr 11, 2014 | Editing, Publishing
Good news from Hourigan & Co. in 2014: self-publishing is booming. There’s huge buzz around the topic, market share is on the rise, and the stigma formerly associated with “vanity publishing” is now turning into the glamor of being “independent.” We help authors...
by Ben Hourigan | Feb 13, 2013 | Publishing
There’s no “I” in vanity. Oh, wait… Tonight I was at a professional function for editors. Catching up with a friend and colleague about what she’s been up to, we swapped stories. She has a book out with a print publisher that’s been doing well in...
by Ben Hourigan | Jul 22, 2012 | Editing
Watch out: if you ever find yourself writing homogenous, you probably mean homogeneous. According to the New Oxford American Dictionary: Homogeneous means “of the same kind, alike … consisting of parts all of the same kind.” Homogenous is “an old...
by Ben Hourigan | May 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
He Died with a Felafel in his Hand is now availabile on iBooks for the first time. Download it for reading on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, for just $9.99. John Birmingham’s tale of sharehousing squalor is a modern Australian comic classic, also available via...
by Ben Hourigan | May 2, 2011 | News
Today’s big story is that Osama bin Laden is dead. If you’re already feeling a pang of loss at the West’s major enemy now being kaput, keep a look out for our new thriller out this month. The Versailles Memorandum, by noted liberal intellectual Peter...
