I still recall a Sunday afternoon as a child. Sunday was a lazy day, a family day and every family in the terraced street where I lived (in the east end of Newcastle) followed suit. It was a day off work/ school and sometimes a lie-in, more often than not a three-hour game of football […]

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The last of our visitors have now gone and we have nobody booked (yet) for the foreseeable future. I hope my parents will keep their word and visit in November, but up until then we are in the clear. Have you noticed how much your alcohol intake increases during the summer/ visitor months? Well, mine […]

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For those expats spending their first year in this wonderful country, I wish you well and hope that you give this so-called ‘brave move’ a real go. It is said that the first two years are the most difficult and anyone with a real desire to return to the good old UK does so in […]

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As a family we tend not to take summer holidays now, instead we try to save the euros for the ski trip to the Alps in January.  We have a swimming pool in the back garden and a beach five minutes away and a huge warm orange globe that mysteriously rises most days during the […]

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So what possessed a two-bit author like me to start a publishing company in Spain? What part of my brain convinced me it was do-able and that I could a) find quality authors or b) compete with the big already well-established publishers? And how exactly would printing and distributing the books be a doddle?

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