Author: Katharine Ann Angel
Release Date: 28th February  2012
Format: Paperback (Black and White Illustrations)
ISBN: 978-1-908098-45-0

From the fantasies of Esau to the fantastic tale of Diamondman, Being Forgotten shines a spotlight on the lives of eight 21^st Century teenagers. These fact based stories will make you think, feel, react and want to read again. They don’t ask for your sympathy, they just don’t want to be forgotten.

Great stories for general reading includes a discussion section ideal for resource material in an educational setting.

Shipping Rate: A

Top Tips from our Editor Karen

1.  Work out your plot before you start writing. Some authors maintain that their books have a life of their own and they don’t have to plot in advance. For the rest of us mere mortals, it’s a big help to know what’s going to happen before we start writing. If we don’t, we run the risk of stalling half way through because we’ve written ourselves into a corner.

2.  Remember that your readers only know what you tell them – they are not psychic. Give them clues and teasers about what’s going to happen but don’t make these so obscure that your audience will miss them. When you reread your work, try to see it from the point of view of someone who has never met your characters before. Is your meaning clear? The fastest way to put a reader off is to confuse them!

3.  Develop a time line. Put events in chronological order so that you know when they happen – then draw up a chart that shows how these events fit together and pin it up in front of your desk. This is particularly useful if your novel moves backwards and forwards in time, or if it involves a lot of characters. The way that you sequence events for your readers is up to you – maybe you have action in different places happening at the same time, maybe your central character has flashbacks – but you need to make sure that the sequence is clear and your audience don’t lose the plot.

4.   Create character files. You need to know your main characters as well as you know your own family if they’re going to become real people on the page. What do they look like? What are their likes/dislikes? What is their history? What do they read/eat/do in their spare time? Start by listing factual information about each character. Add to your dossier by ‘interviewing’ them and noting down what other characters in your book think about them. Include pictures of real people they resemble and places they frequent. (Note to self: not all heroes look like George Clooney however much I might want to have his pictures plastered all over my office wall.) Try to get as much information as you can together before you start your novel and keep referring back to the files.

5.  Write every day. Even when you’re busy, even when the self-doubt monkey is sitting on your shoulder telling you that you should take up knitting rather than spend any more time on this writing business, put a few words down on the page. All writers have good days and bad days; the professionals know that however grim you feel, you have to persevere.

Author: Maggi Toner- Edgar 
Release Date: 28th February  2012
Format: Paperback (Colour photographs)
ISBN: 978-1-908098-3-82

After running her own design company in the eighties, Maggi spent over 20 years writing, leading, validating and lecturing in Higher Education on Degree and MA courses. Her role in fashion ‘Haute Couture’ and design ‘Textile Craft’ courses and Applied Arts Research culminated in a doctorate, for which this book was a practice-based element. This reflective journal written through adversity, extracted enormous inspirational benefits to fuel the creative artistic process and in addition it offers transformative power in order to deal with trauma.

Shipping Rate: B

Author: Paul Cave

Release Date: 14th February 2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 978-1-908098-49-8

Josh Sawyer’s passionate encounter with Anna, a beautiful and mysterious young woman, was one that would change his life forever.

Josh must come to terms with Anna’s deep, dark and terrifying secrets – that thrust him into a nightmare of violence and bloodlust.

Suspected of grisly multiple murders, the couple are forced to flee Chicago, with the police and FBI hot on their heels.

But a more deadly and evil threat is tracking them – Jonus an adversary from Anna’s past.

Anna has something that Jonus wants – her soul, or that of anyone else who gets in his way…

Shipping Rate: A

As you probably know, blogging and Social Media have become very significant ways to spread the word about new publications, upcoming writing projects, latest innovations in audio and ebooks and other related issues.  At 2QT we are always looking for ways to support our authors in all aspects of publication and now we can harness the power of the internet in our new Social Media Marketing package (SMMP). 

We will be able to market authors work, book signings, promotions and special offers via Twitter @2QTLtd and Face Book 2QT Publishing  We will promote to a wide audience, ensuring exposure to potential readers and the buying market.  Also included in this package is a 2QT Author Interview to be posted on our blog, giving writers the chance to tell the audience more about their book and themselves.

We’re delighted to announce that Zoë Dawes will be managing the SMMP via Twitter, Face Book and interviews.  You may have already come across Zoë via her popular travel blog The Quirky Traveller or the TQT Travel Notes Journal which we published in April 2011.  She works for 2QT as a specialist editor and is helping to organise 2QT workshops and events in 2012.  One of the things she is most looking forward to is, “Telling the world about the great publications that our authors have written and to shout about the exciting works we will be publishing in the coming year.”   You can follow her on Twitter @quirkytraveller and Face Book where she seems to spend a lot of time!

So, to find out more about how we can help you to market your work in a simple, cost-effective way using the latest Social Media technology, contact us here.

 January 2012

Saturday 14th January  – Sylvia Mayall will be at Wilmslow Waterstone’s Branch on from 10.00am signing her book The Silent Mentor

February 2012

Thursday 9th February-  A Canvas of Rock  BOOK LAUNCH – Outside Cafe, Hathersage:  7.00pm for a 7.30pm start.
Tickets @ £4.00 includes: An illustrated talk by the author with readings from his book, A glass of wine (or tea /coffee), A buffet of sandwiches, nibbles and cakes and of course the opportunity to buy his book and get a personalised signing. You can buy tickets from the shop or via this link

Saturday 25th February  – Waterstone’s, Sheffield Orchard Square from 11.00am – 2.00pm Mark Radtke will be signing his debut book – A Canvas of Rock.

Sylvia is becoming quite a regular at Waterstone’s branches around the UK – come and meet her at the following stores where she will be signing her book The Silent Mentor:

Friday February 17th  – Waterstone’s The Trafford Centre, Manchester
Saturday February 18th  -  Waterstone’s Altrincham, Manchester, from 11.00am – 4pm
Saturday 25th  February – Waterstone’s Carlisle, Cumbria, from 11.00am – 4pm

Wednesday 29th February – Bookcase, Castle Street, Carlisle from 7.30pm

This is a book launch event for Thinking Caps by Maggi Toner-Edgar. Come and meet Maggi and hear about the inspiration behind the book.

March 2012

Mark Radtke will be holding the following Waterstone’s signings with A Canvas of Rock :

Leeds -  10^th March  11.00am – 2.00pm
Bradford Wool Exchange  – 17^th March 11.00am  – 2.00pm

Waterstone’s Oracle Branch in Reading - Sunday 18th March.
Roger Thompson will be holding his first Waterstone’s book signing with his book Eye of Athina from 11am – 4pm

Paul Ferguson will be holding the following Waterstone’s signings with Killing the Dead:

Eastbourne – Saturday March 10th -11am to 3pm
Guildford - Saturday March 24th – 11am to 5pm
Haywards Heath – Saturday March 31st – 11am to 3pm

Sylvia Mayall will be at the following Waterstone’s branches on the following dates:

Wilmslow – Saturday March 3rd from 11.00am – 4pm
Leeds – Saturday Saturday March 10th  from 11.00am – 4pm
Knutsford – Saturday March  17th  from 11.00am – 4pm

Hannah Ensor will be at WHSmiths 188 The Broadway in Didcot, Oxon on

Saturday, 24th March 2012, 9:30 – 12:00

Signing Biscuit Baking, Welly Walking, Emma’s Incarceration and You know you’ve been pushing it when… – all published with 2QT

April 2012

Saturday 14th April  – Roger Thompson will be at Poole Waterstone’s  signing Eye of Athina

Saturday 21st April 2012  – Paul Ferguson will be at Windsor Waterstone’s signing Killing the Dead

Local Author Fair at Reading Central Library

On Saturday 10^th December between 10am and 4.30pm, the ground floor of the Central Library in Reading will play host to a wide range of local authors showcasing their books and writing.

Come and talk to the authors about their books, how they got into writing and how they got published.

It will also be a great opportunity to buy signed copies of their books as Christmas presents for the readers in your lives.

Reading Libraries’ local author days highlight the fantastic local writing talent we have in the town and surrounding area.

Free entry.  For more details email libraryevents@reading.gov.uk phone 0118 9015950 or ask at Reading Central library.

Author: Mark Radtke

Availability:  In stock

Format: Hardback  (Colour photographs – plates)

ISBN: 978-1-908098-00-9

A Canvas of Rock transports the reader through two of the most influential periods in modern British rock-climbing as seen through the eyes one of the UK’s well-respected rock climbers – Mark Radtke.

This collection of personal experiences and friendships with some of the influential climbers from the 1970s to the present day, provides a rare insight and first-hand account on some of the crucial and at times contentious episodes that paved the way to today’s rock-climbing scene. We are also treated to insights of the man himself – his passion and his drive that have allowed him to challenge his limits and to pioneer many new Extreme routes.

Excerpt: ‘The sheer amount of time spent living outdoors, touching rock and getting dirty with the elements has undoubtedly brought me closer to nature. I know that I am a part of nature and not above it. Climbing has allowed me to explore my own fallibilities and shortcomings. Failure has occasionally resulted in one or two broken bones, but more often a bruised ego has been the more painful.

It has provided the opportunity to satisfy creative urges as in my own minds eye I have painted new routes on canvases of rock.’

With Foreword from Andy Cave, Andy Cave Author of  Multi Award Winning Learning to Breathe (2006) and Thin White Line (2008)

Available Now Plus Free Postage!

Shipping Rate: F

Author: Rob Auty  (Robert C Auty)

Release Date: 30th January 2012  (Copies available to buy from 1st December only from us (free P&P))

Format: Paperback (Illustrated)

ISBN: 978-1-908098-40-5

Long awaited, it’s here,  A Hare’s Tale in paperback with the additional bonus of beautiful illustrations. Follow Juney Brown Toes, a young and adventurous Hare, her friends Slow Freddy and Tufty Thomas, and many others, as they spend a remarkable ‘Mad March’ day, racing, chasing and being chased by friends and enemies alike.

What will Juney do when the evil Grey Hound shows up unexpectedly in the middle of a dangerous ‘Hare of the Dog’ game, and will Farmer, and his daughter Samantha, be of any help to save poor Slow Freddy from the jaws of the Grey Hound! Read and enjoy!

*Pre- Order now and get the introductory Christmas Offer of only £6.00 including P&P  (available up to 25/12/11)

Shipping Rate: F

Its been a busy week for our authors this week…

Frank English has been promoting his latest book 18 Mulberry Road with an interview on BBC Radio Lancashire   – Frank features about 20 minutes in and has a couple of slots on this programme.  Frank has a book signing on the Carnforth Bookshop tomorrow (Saturday 22nd October). More on Frank’s Website

Zoe Dawes aka The Quirky Traveller  has been on BBC Radio Cumbria  today talking about her recent travels but also introducing a collaboration with 2QT and Zoe in launching our workshop programme for 2012 – more coming very soon.  If you skip through to around the 27 minute mark you will catch Zoe’s feature.