Bound Biographies Blog

Page Turning Preview

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:31:53 +0100

Bound Biographies' new website has been launched with the use of some impressive page turning software to preview our books.

How to Write Your Life Story 4th Edition

adminKS — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +0100

Mike Oke has just had his book, 'Write Your Life Story' published in a revised and updated 4th edition, this time with an endorsement on the back from James Caan of Dragons' Den.

Purchase a copy of Write Your Life Story .

Don't judge a book by its cover

adminKS — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 +0100

When Jan Hencher came towards the end of her project and the time came for her books to be printed, the issue of the cover design came up. Jan suggested a drawing which depicted the trials and tribulations of her story and those that she came in touch with. To be perfectly honest the Bound Biographies office team just thought that it wouldn't work and that it wasn't the best cover in the world. However, the cover was printed and bound on to the paperback books using the artwork Jan had selected... and the result? A very striking book that makes a huge impact before you have even read the book. As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

A Family Chronicle

adminKS — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:11:44 +0100

A recent client came to us with over 200,000 words... Given that the average book is 50,000 words long, our immediate thoughts were 3 books not 1! After a period of editing and making sure we had all the right material in the correct order, Jean Crossley's early history of her family entitled The Houses has now been printed. It tells the family story by focusing on the houses that they lived in, and some of them are fairly grand affairs. Mrs Crossley was pleased with this first step, and so now wants to move on to editing and producing volume II. So watch this space!

Something a little bigger than a cat...

adminKS — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:15:17 +0100

A new client with Bound Biographies writes:

When I was three years old my favourite cat died. We had lots of cats and two or three dogs. As a baby I was 'protected' by Jock, a Cairn Terrier, who sat under my pram all day and no one or nothing was allowed near.

I was very upset my cat had gone and Mum said that perhaps if I was very good, Father Christmas would bring me a new one. On Christmas morning 1937 I woke early, looked through my sack, but there was no cat. In tears I rushed into Mum and Dad’s room and they said, "Have you looked downstairs?” I rushed downstairs, but with tears went back to Mum and Dad crying, “There’s only a horse in the drawing room.” It was a pony for me called 'Cheeky', and she would come into the kitchen walk round the table and 'smile' up her lips. She wanted a lump of sugar!"