As you can see in the picture, Crackle is still busily reading his O’Brien Press books! The fantastic Storytime promotion which we have been running with Rice Krispies is alive and kicking … When Hughes & Hughes closed their shops earlier this year it made things complicated, but we are delighted that the Hughes & Hughes shops [...]
We are delighted that, as of today, O’Brien Press books are now represented in Britain by the wonderful people at Frances Lincoln. Like us, they started in the 1970s producing books for adults and then started a children’s list too — though they made this change a little earlier than we did (1983, rather than [...]
If you go into your local Unicare Pharmacy any time in the next two months you will see a slightly unusual display on the counter: a perspex counterpack with half-a-dozen copies of It’s Called Dyslexia, a new title from The O’Brien Press, produced in association with the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. It’s a child-friendly introduction [...]
The old and new worlds of publishing and marketing all happen at the same time these days: we have just launched An Irish Voice by Niall O’Dowd, a very influential Irish-American with links everywhere, who played a crucial role in the Northern Ireland Peace Process, among other things. It’s a great book, but I’ll stop [...]
I promised some exciting new promotions for the start of 2010, and we have just launched the first one: in association with Hughes & Hughes booksellers and Kelloggs, we are absolutely thrilled to be part of Rice Krispies Storytime. As you can see from the picture (taken in my local supermarket the other day: my [...]
every country in the world! I was at a really good seminar on Wednesday in London, hosted by the Independent Publishers’ Guild (IPG), on the book markets in India, China, Africa, Australia, the US and Ireland (which I presented — how come the others all got continents to talk about, with up to a billion [...]
The Irish publishing industry posed a question this March: how could we create a promotion that would run in the book trade (ie shops) whose key message would be about Irish Publishing? With so many irish writers published abroad, it is very easy for people to miss the fact that there is an industry in [...]
We are thrilled to launch our updated MoorehawkeTrilogy.com microsite! The Crowded Shadows is hitting the shelves in a bookshop near you (in Ireland: those of you abroad are going to have to wait for your local publishers to release their editions — sorry!) so check out the microsite, read an extract and get hooked on Celine’s [...]
Have you ever had to put together a catalogue? If so, you know where I’m coming from here: if not, be glad and run a mile if the subject ever comes up! A catalogue looks all innocent, but any document that has over 50o images relating to over 500 titles, each of which has a [...]
It’s been a week of Bookspotting in The O’Brien Press. Firstly, there was Bono and The Stolen Village (not the bizarre new title of a U2 album, just check out the post below for an explanation!) Then a staff member (who chooses to remain anonymous!) was watching the movie Shrooms where the doomed hapless tourists [...]