Elisa Rolle has obviously been having a busy few months; the Rainbow Awards must have taken up a great deal of her time, but nevertheless she's also managed to fit in reading and reviewing Adam Fitzroy's GHOST STATION, which she seems to have enjoyed!
The novel is not short, but it’s filled with events, and so maybe, the romantic reader will wish to have had more time with these men in a non-professional capacity. The romance between Rick and Harry is sweet and passionate, I can easily see these two retiring in a country mansion breeding dogs and discussing of the old times.
Well, we certainly can't argue with that!
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Rainbow Awards
To our great astonishment - we thought they were due next weekend! - the Rainbow Awards have been announced today. The competition was clearly pretty tough this time, but nevertheless Manifold Press has taken three Honourable Mentions in the One Perfect Score category - for the following books:
Congratulations to all three authors; clearly all your hard work paid off in the end!
Congratulations to all three authors; clearly all your hard work paid off in the end!
Saturday, 1 December 2012
Statistics for November
Our best-selling author for November was Jane Elliot, with THE DEVIL IN DEAD HORSE galloping ahead merrily on the Press website and ABOVE ALL - uh, 'above all' our other books on the distribution sites.
We're a little disappointed not to have seen any reviews of our new titles so far, but clearly this is a very busy time of year for people, and it's not all that easy to find the time to sit down and read a book, so we'll try our hardest to be patient.
Meanwhile, the annual Rainbow Awards will be announced next weekend; we did rather well in them last year and we're hoping that something similar may occur this time - fingers crossed.
Our average response time during November was respectable enough at four hours and 46 minutes. In fact only one order took longer than 12 hours to fill, which was due to a temporary computer glitch at our end, so on the whole we think we're doing fairly well!
We're a little disappointed not to have seen any reviews of our new titles so far, but clearly this is a very busy time of year for people, and it's not all that easy to find the time to sit down and read a book, so we'll try our hardest to be patient.
Meanwhile, the annual Rainbow Awards will be announced next weekend; we did rather well in them last year and we're hoping that something similar may occur this time - fingers crossed.
Our average response time during November was respectable enough at four hours and 46 minutes. In fact only one order took longer than 12 hours to fill, which was due to a temporary computer glitch at our end, so on the whole we think we're doing fairly well!
Friday, 23 November 2012
Elisa Rolle's Treasure Hunt
Forwarded at Elisa's request:
So another year is gone, and my Journal is now 6 years old :-) Since end of November is also really near the time when the Rainbow Awards will wrap up nicely (on December 8th) this year I want to have a joint party! So I asked to many of the authors in this year contest to be generous and donate a book or two... and the answer was overwhelming: 243 among print and ebooks!
But this time you have to "earn" your prize and so there is a "little" treasure hunt: nothing complicated but you need to complete a chain made of Title-Word-Definition-Cover-Number. How? I will try to explain LOL
We have 243 book titles, you can find them here:
The Books: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1805679.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359348.html)
from each title I extracted a word, but be careful, same word can match more title, BUT there is an unique matching (example, if I have two titles, Love Story and Story of Me, "story" match both title, but probably, from the first title I took "Love" and from the second I took "Story". Your job to discover the right matching ;-)). You can find the words here:
The Words: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1805826.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359509.html)
to each word corresponds a definition. The definition refers to single word (even if the word is plural) or not conjugated verb (even if the word is a conjugated verb). You can find the definitions here:
The Definitions: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1806109.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359969.html)
Once you have the matching Book-Word-Definition, you need to go and search for the Cover here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.446587205375367.103212.100000722741394&type=1&l=1a717d4880
view the right cover, on the comment section there is a comment by me (Elisa Reviews) with a link to a post on LJ (Rainbow Awards: Current Submissions). Open the link and see what number was assigned to that book in that post.
Comment on THIS post (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1806591.html mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3360138.html), sending me: Book Title-Word-Definition-Number. You can pick one book per day, if tomorrow there will be still available book, I will assign them. So you can send me more matching but first in-first out, you will win the first right matching still available book.
Exception, for the Book marked as New there is no Cover/Number, so once you have the matching Book Title-Word-Definition, you can leave the comment.
And now, lets the party start! Enjoy and good luck with your hunt!
So another year is gone, and my Journal is now 6 years old :-) Since end of November is also really near the time when the Rainbow Awards will wrap up nicely (on December 8th) this year I want to have a joint party! So I asked to many of the authors in this year contest to be generous and donate a book or two... and the answer was overwhelming: 243 among print and ebooks!
But this time you have to "earn" your prize and so there is a "little" treasure hunt: nothing complicated but you need to complete a chain made of Title-Word-Definition-Cover-Number. How? I will try to explain LOL
We have 243 book titles, you can find them here:
The Books: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1805679.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359348.html)
from each title I extracted a word, but be careful, same word can match more title, BUT there is an unique matching (example, if I have two titles, Love Story and Story of Me, "story" match both title, but probably, from the first title I took "Love" and from the second I took "Story". Your job to discover the right matching ;-)). You can find the words here:
The Words: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1805826.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359509.html)
to each word corresponds a definition. The definition refers to single word (even if the word is plural) or not conjugated verb (even if the word is a conjugated verb). You can find the definitions here:
The Definitions: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1806109.html (mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3359969.html)
Once you have the matching Book-Word-Definition, you need to go and search for the Cover here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.446587205375367.103212.100000722741394&type=1&l=1a717d4880
view the right cover, on the comment section there is a comment by me (Elisa Reviews) with a link to a post on LJ (Rainbow Awards: Current Submissions). Open the link and see what number was assigned to that book in that post.
Comment on THIS post (http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1806591.html mirrored here if you don't have a LJ account to comment and you are not friend on LJ: http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3360138.html), sending me: Book Title-Word-Definition-Number. You can pick one book per day, if tomorrow there will be still available book, I will assign them. So you can send me more matching but first in-first out, you will win the first right matching still available book.
Exception, for the Book marked as New there is no Cover/Number, so once you have the matching Book Title-Word-Definition, you can leave the comment.
And now, lets the party start! Enjoy and good luck with your hunt!
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
FAQs added to the website
Since we have found ourselves answering the same questions over and over again, we've just added an FAQ section to the Press website. If there's anything we've missed, or anything that isn't as clear as it should be, we hope readers will kindly draw our attention to it!
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
MAKE DO AND MEND by Adam Fitzroy
We've been made aware of a minor fault on some .epub and .mobi copies of MAKE DO AND MEND - the Welsh letter ลต (a 'w' with a circumflex) doesn't seem to be translating properly. It looks fine to us, but obviously some e-readers can't understand it and are substituting a question mark. We've already made new .epub and .mobi files for future purchasers, in which we've replaced (we hope) the character with a simple 'w', but if anyone who has bought the book so far would like a free replacement copy they have only to e-mail eaditter (at) manifoldpress (dot) co (dot) uk and we'll organise it for them.
Thank you to the reader in Australia who alerted us to the problem!
Thank you to the reader in Australia who alerted us to the problem!
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