Statistics released earlier this week have revealed that British publishers saw an increase in sales throughout 2012, despite the country been in the middle of a recession. Many had warned that the increase in digital books would lead to a decline in print book sales, however that doesn’t seem to be the case. Digital [...]
View Post 2012, amazon, book sales, bring, children's books, fifty shades of grey, independent bookstores, kindle, sales, self-publishing, statistics, waterstonesEveryone likes something for free right? Of course you do. Well this Thursday (2nd May), we are giving away the brand new Gorgeous George adventure for free. This is to celebrate the launch of our new Pocket Money Books range. These new bite-sized adventures will be available exclusively on eBook, priced between 99p and £1.99. They’re a [...]
View Post books, children, free, giveaway, gorgeous george, kidsA few weeks ago My Little Big Town returned to The London Book Fair even bigger, better and grosser than ever before. During the three day event, held at London’s Earls Court, we brought together all of our authors to showcase their recent and future books. We had soon to be published authors Rowan [...]
View Post 2013, books, children, iain o'brien, kids, london book fair, publishingMy Little Big Town will once again be exhibiting at the London Book Fair, at Earls Court 15th to the 17th April 2013. After a hugely successful show in 2012, we are returning with a bigger stand, a larger catalogue of books, more wonderful authors and illustrators and a company that has grown considerably in [...]
View Post book fair, lbf, lbf13, london book fair, mlbt, my little big townCHILDREN got a half-term treat yesterday as the Mail gave away a free book to hundreds of young readers. The Mail teamed up with Hessle publisher and illustrator Calvin Innes and Scottish author Stuart Reid to give away 400 copies of their book Gorgeous George And The Geriatric Generator. And Calvin, head of My Little [...]
View PostFirst published in the Hull Daily Mail Wednesday, October 10 2012 THE Mail has teamed up with Hull publishing company My Little Big Town to give away fun children’s books. Former Wolfreton School pupil Calvin Innes, 29, launched the company last August. With plans to publish more than 25 books by next year, he says [...]
View PostPublished Oct 11 2012 Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News YOUNG bookworms are in for a real treat this month when popular children’s author and illustrator Calvin Innes makes a visit to two Runcorn schools to inspire youngsters to get involved with reading and drawing. An illustrator for over 10 years, the famous publisher and artist [...]
View PostArticle from the Yorkshire Post – Published on Thursday 25 October 2012 06:00 PUBLISHING firm My Little Big Town plans to take on more staff as it looks to release up to 15 titles in the next year. The Hull-based company, which specialises in children’s books, is forecasting turnover of more than £1m in its [...]
View PostChapter 2 – The History of The Power Plant Nearly one hundred years ago, in Little Pumpington, a power plant was founded by three men called Mr. Peabody, Mr. Percival and Mr. Prickly. These founding members decided to name their power plant after themselves, as many rich and pompous men do, and called their company [...]
View PostChapter 1 – The Shadows George was wide awake. There was a thick fog outside which seemed to glimmer orange in the street-lights. A glow was twinkling through the frost that was forming on the outside of the window and George lay in his bed, mesmerized by the sparkles through a gap in the curtains. [...]
View PostOur popular children’s book, Stuart the Bug Eating Man by Calvin Innes is now available on the iPad as an interactive book/app. The iPad version of Stuart The Bug Eating Man is the same hilarious, insect packed, gross little tale, but with a few added extras. An audio commentary is available (provided by Stuart Reid, [...]
View PostGorgeous George & The ZigZag Zit-Faced Zombies Press Release We are pleased to announce the brand new, much anticipated childrens book by Stuart Reid and Calvin Innes. Out January 2013. The highly anticipated follow up to the best selling book, Gorgeous George & the Giant Geriatric Generator by Scottish author Stuart Reid will be hitting [...]
View Post book, book launch, book release, calvin innes, children, children's book, funny, horror, literature, press release, stuart reid, zombiesMy Little Big Town has completed the move to our new head office n the fantastic Enterprise Center in Hull. The new base allows us to expand our operations and allows us more space to work, to create and to explore new ideas in children’s publishing and digital media. This is the first step in [...]
View PostMy Little Big Town is pleased to welcome two fantastic new children’s authors into our family. Iain O’Brien and Rowan Gibson are the co-authors of a brand new, exciting, silly, sporty and swashbuckling children’s picture book called ‘Pirates Don’t Play Cricket’ due for release in 2013. Iain O’Brien is a former international cricketer for New [...]
View PostMy Little Big Town is just a couple of months away from launching our new digital division. We’re working on some amazing interactive books that will be on sale shortly. We have a number of projects in the pipeline with some of the first releases out in Summer 2012 A few exciting things to look [...]
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