Q&A with Anna Kenna
The Essential Fairy is the latest tale from Anna Kenna, about a young girl who makes it her mission to declare the Tooth Fairy an essential worker - much to the delight of children everywhere! Teamed with charming illustrations…
Read an Excerpt: My Croatian Kitchen
My Croatian Kitchen, By Helena Nuic It began with an old family recipe book, the fading ink holding on to history. The pages are filled with recipes that have travelled from one side of the world to the other. My…
The CopyPress: Newsletter August 2021
Hello from The CopyPress Team! COVID UPDATE: We hope all our customers have been keeping safe since the country entered level 4 almost a fortnight ago. Our doors will be shut until it is safe to reopen, and our staff…
Goal Setting for Self-Publishing Success
So you've written a book? Congratulations! That's an awesome achievement. Where to from here? Before going any further you’ll need to define what your goals are for your book. This way you can know how much time, money and effort…
Hybrid Publishing: Scam, or Way of the Future?
Interview with Susan Smith, author of Living with the Lions and Invisible Elephants What process did you go through to find a publisher? I started out by doing an online search for New Zealand Publishers but quickly found that it…
Quick Tip: Writing an Author Bio
You will use an author bio (biography) across your marketing campaign. It will appear: next to your author photo inside your book on the bio page of your website in full and abridged forms on your social media. You may…
Engage Work From Home Mode: The CopyPress COVID-19 Level 4 update
Wednesday 25th March, 4:39 pm. As you will have seen, New Zealand is going into lockdown from midnight tonight. That means we'll be changing the way we do business for the next month and engaging work from home mode. Our…
Bicycle delivery and drive-throughs: how New Zealand’s bookshops are adapting to COVID-19 Level 2
With New Zealand now at Covid-19 alert level 2, bookshops have been getting creative with ways to get reading material to their customers: Marsden Books have cancelled all events but remain open. They've also been crowdsourcing out of stock titles…
