About Lovewriting
“Lovewriting – bringing new authors and readers together”
Lovereading and Lovereading4kids have become established as THE source of guidance to help readers choose their next book. Over 150,000 avid readers have signed up to these sites to receive regular email news and book recommendations – and benefit from bespoke online guidance tools such as Opening Extracts of every Featured Book and a unique Author Like-for-Like service.
So powerful a force has Lovereading become that many authors have approached us to ask us if we can help them promote their books online.
Lovewriting offers authors guidance on how to get their book published – and showcases new and independent authors’ books to our online customer base. Are you ...
- an Independently Published Author who wants to promote your book?
- an Unpublished Author who wants to publish your book?
- Someone who Loves Reading and wants to discover new authors and books?
Independently Published Authors
Whereas publishing your own book is now easier than ever before, there remains the tricky business of letting the world know about it, and persuading people to buy it. Lovewriting has been developed to offer independent authors ways of promoting your book to our own subscribers, to subscribers to our sister sites, Lovereading and Lovereading4kids, and beyond.
Lovewriting allows:
- you to create your own micro web site
- with all the details a reader needs such as synopsis, front cover, author photo and author biography
- readers to download an Opening Extract of your book
- details of your book to be emailed to our subscribers
- and readers to buy your book*
In all, Lovewriting makes it easy for customers to view, sample and purchase your book.
* Provided the book fulfils certain requirements i.e. it has an ISBN, is available to order via Gardners our distribution agent.
Unpublished Authors
Publishing is an increasingly competitive business. Publishers are more and more ruthless about which books they will accept. So growing numbers of authors are turning to forms of self-publishing, where the author pays for their book to be printed and retains complete control of the process.
We have partnered with established publisher Matador to help Lovewriting users see their book in print.
To find out what the publishing process involves, download Lovewriting’s Guide To Publishing as a PDF document.
To find out what self-publishing involves, download Lovewriting’s Guide To Self-Publishing with Matador as a PDF document.
Someone Who Loves Reading
For readers who can’t find the book the book they want to read next in their local supermarket, Lovewriting showcases new writing across a range of genres. You will be able to:
- Search books by genre
- Read extended free Opening Extracts
- Type the title or author into our search engine
- Check out the top ten downloads to see what other people are reading
The People behind Lovewriting.co.uk.
Peter Crawshaw
Co-founder & Director
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My great loves in life, aside from my wife and three sons, are technology and books. These two passions have come together nicely with Lovereading, where we use the best of the net, and the best people, to make choosing books a joy. When I was seven I read The Hobbit, which really kick-started my reading life. Now I sometimes take a longer route to work just to fit in a few more pages of whatever novel I’m absorbed in. I love good crime fiction like Greg Isles or Peter Temple but, unsurprisingly, I now read a wide variety of fiction because of the day job. Before starting Lovereading with Louise and Hugh, I worked for more than 15 years in some large companies, as well as running my own marketing consultancy. Probably most useful to my work now were the five years I spent at Book Club Associates.
Louise Weir
Co-founder & Director
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My love of reading only really began in my early teens; before this I was busy trying to be different from my bookworm sister. But when I discovered what I was missing out on I wasted no time in devouring every book I could find, from action and adventure to more girly fiction. I’ll be the first to admit that high-brow literature isn’t for me. Since setting up Lovereading I’ve become a huge fan of ‘tween’ and teen fiction. There are so many brilliant stories, and with two daughters of this age I’m able to suggest authors they might enjoy. I’ve spent almost 20 years in the book publishing/retailing industry working in some of the top five publishing houses in the UK, and have been responsible for launching many, now internationally famous, authors in the adult’s and children’s market.
Hugh Salmon
Co-founder & Director
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I’ve always loved reading, but I seem to have two problems. The first is I can only read when I’m able to give a book my undivided attention i.e. the rare occasions when my two sons and my daughter are out, and the TV is switched off. The other is time. I find it frustrating to read a couple of pages of a book, put it down, then pick it up again later to read a couple more. And if I read before bed I always seem to nod off and lose my place. But recently I’ve discovered a new trick. My favourite genres on Lovereading are literary/contemporary and biography/autobiography. So I save the novels for when I can give them my absolute undivided attention, and I listen to the biographies and autobiographies on audiobook. My career background is in major multinational advertising agencies and for a time I managed O&M Thailand, the biggest agency in Asia outside Japan. In 1999 I founded my own advertising agency, eponymously named The Salmon Agency, and one of our clients was the publisher Hodder Headline, which is how I met Louise.
