Wexford Literary Festival – Our Picks for the Weekend
This weekend (Friday 27th-Sunday 29th May) sees the boutique book festival take place in Enniscorthy for the 4th year running, putting it firmly on the [...]
Putting a Poetry Collection Together
Getting Your Poet's House in Order You've built up a lot of poems, on a range of themes and subjects; maybe over a long period [...]
Self-Publishing. A Guide to Getting Started
Self-Publishing - What You need to Know So you're thinking of self-publishing your novel, memoir, poetry or business book, or any book for that matter. [...]
New Poetry from Tom White
Poems from an Open Heart Tom White's new poetry collection, Open Heart Surgery, published with selfpublishbooks.ie is nothing if not varied. Put together following a hospital [...]
Ota-Bind
Traditional methods of bookbinding, such as oversewing (where pages fall out) or double-fan adhesive binding (where margins are lost), will soon have to make way [...]
Out of the Bag by Sean Maguire
Poetry has been the outlet that Sean has used to express himself since he was nine years old. Born in England to Irish immigrant parents, [...]
The Parting – Patrick Stack
“I’ve always had a love for the sound of language,” Patrick says. “As a child and teenager I would regularly take down one of the [...]
Going to College as a Mature Student
This week, the team at Selfpublishbooks.ie caught up with Denis Staunton. I asked Denis about himself and what may have prompted him to write Going [...]
Print Irish
In this difficult economy, governments are putting ever more emphasis on supporting local business as a means to overall recovery. But that is not the [...]
Young At Heart
Young at Heart – a Celebration of Ten Years is a compilation by Phil Goodman which chronicles the activities of a group of volunteers in [...]
Kilclooney Woods by Micheal O’h-Aonghusa
Last week, Selfpublishbooks.ie printed Micheal O’hAonghusa’s new book, Kilclooney Woods, a brief history of Fenianism and the events of 1867 in East Cork. I had [...]
Radio Blaa Blaa by Brian Kennedy
Brian Kennedy’s first book, Confessions of an Exeter City Nut, was self-published before being taken up by a small publisher in England. His 2011 book, [...]
