PUBLISHING
THE BIG IDEAS LIBRARY
Book design and publishing services for independent authors.
Give your writing the book it deserves.
“Working with Jacky and Ned is a pleasure… if you want to produce something to an exceptional standard. Jacky and Ned are simply fantastic.”
Martin Johnson, Author of I Am Human: Pain and Pleasure
Ensuring your work will compete with mainstream publishers
Whether you want to produce an ebook, a paperback or a leather hardbound bibliophile edition, from many years in the publishing industry, we have the expertise to deliver exactly what you’re looking for.
We can help and advise you from a blank page to manuscript evaluation, editing and complete book design, proofreading, indexing, typesetting, print, production and market identification.
Independent authors who invest in professional editing and design sell up to 40% more than those who don’t.
We welcome a diverse range of independent authors who recognise the need for high-quality commercial book publishing. Our clients range from best-selling authors to specialist authors of niche collectors’ editions, non-fiction and fiction books. We can act as ‘white label’ suppliers of publishing design and content services, or as your complete in-house publishing team.
Our services include:
- Self-publishing advice – take advantage of our FREE Publishing Information Guides
- Working with a mainstream publisher – mentor advice and guidance
- Manuscript evaluation
- Editing
- Ghostwriting
- Proofreading
- Illustration
- Print and eBook cover design
- Print and eBook layout and design
- Print buying
- ISBN advice, provision and multiple catalogue entries
- ebook production, e.g. Kindle
Our Co-founder Ned Hoste also works as 2H Design – and is a book designer with an illustrious history of outstanding layout and cover work spanning the last 40 years.
“To Ned, with my deep thanks for the best design of any jacket of my book.” Kirk Douglas on Dance with the Devil.
If you are also looking for a website to create your online author home, stick with us.
We also create beautiful, standout websites for authors and artists
“Ned and Jacky have done a fantastic job of building and maintaining my author website. Their expertise ensures that everything runs smoothly, and they are always quick to respond whenever I need any help or want to make changes.” Imogen Clark best-selling Amazon author.
How to Be in Business
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How to Be in Business Paperback
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Build the mindset and marketing you need to become a happy entrepreneur with the confidence to create, adapt and succeed as a startup.
When it comes to starting your own business, there’s plenty to think about and, at times, plenty to make us anxious. How to Be in Business is not simply how to successfully market what you do, it’s also about your resilience and a great mindset. Giving you the tools to take advantage of opportunity and adapt. You’ll learn how to make good decisions, balance risk and reward and much more. This book will help you to build the business you want, whilst keeping balance in your life.
“… essential foundations from which to develop. The advice is timeless and applicable to business, career development and confidence building in arenas beyond the business world.”
Chris Hiscocks, Enterprise Manager Biorenewables Development Centre
Blandine Anderson
Both Sides is a revealing and personal account of the successes and misfortunes of wildlife and farm-life throughout the shepherding year.
The collection of dual aspect ceramic works which illustrates the book, attempts to show both sides of each theme, be that life and death, Winter and Summer, or famine and plenty.
Ths book was in 2 editions one a boxed presentation limited edition of 25 books and a unique Blandine Anderson tile available from Artifex Gallery.
I am Human: Pleasure & Pain | Martin Johnson
“Martin has a very structured mind and when he imparts knowledge he does it in a very clear and concise way which is what attracted me to working with him in the first place.”
Sir Dave Brailsford, former Performance Director of British Cycling and Director of Sport for Ineos.
For thousands of years our species has survived, evolved and thrived through our ability to endure pain and suffering, whilst also seeking pleasure and reward. But the scales have tipped and we’re losing our balance. Seemingly more susceptible to anxiety than ever before, are the lifestyles we crave creating a “comfort crisis” and do we have the ability to wrestle back control?
Exploring the psychology of pain and pleasure – how they dominate and dictate everything we humans do – this book will make you stop and think about your life. Most importantly, it will offer practical solutions to balance your painpleasure scales and achieve greater levels of resilience and fulfilment.
“When Martin speaks or writes, I pay attention … and so should everyone else.”
Rich Diviney, Retired Navy SEAL and bestselling author of The Attributes. Owner and founder of The Attributes Inc.
2014 Garden Media Guild book of the year
ISBN:978-0-9929859-2-9
More about the author:
www.davidhedges-gower.com | @reallawnexpert
“… a practical hands on guide written by an expert…”
“Great book. Very helpful for a novice/amateur gardener like me.”
“Excellent, with a lot of new thinking.”
The man who ran across the USA in 100 days
ISBN:978-0-9929859-7-4
More about the author:
www.tomfitzsimons.co.uk | @dryingout
“… jam packed with love, sadness, adventure, comedy, fear and inspiration.”
“This is a must read book.”
“What an inspiring, honest, open book Tom has written about his battle through alcohol addiction and then turning his life around.”
Biggest single print run
ISBN:978-0957217720
Selected as a Book of the Year in the industry press, it is the inspiring contemporary story of young woman, Benedict, and her journey of self-discovery as she is asked by her uncle, a former Japanese prisoner-of-war, to scatter his ashes from the Bridge on the River Kwai in Thailand.
Currently in being made in to a feature film.
“Very moving, well-written novel.”
“I really loved this book and couldn’t put it down.”
“Fantastic and timeless. An easy read but an emotionally engaging one. A real page turner.”
Derek Eland’s time as an official war artist in Afghanistan.
ISBN:978-0992985936
He was embedded with the British Army In 2011 and set up a series of Big Brother style Diary Rooms on the front line. He then asked soldiers, both British and Afghan to write down their immediate thoughts on postcards, which he collated in the Diary Rooms.
“… groundbreaking.”
“Poignant and personal.”
“Courage, determination and selflessness shine through…”
Biggest Indie seller
600,000+ downloads
5 public print editions
PLUS corporate editions
A compelling case for why doing the right thing is not a function of good business, it is good business.
ISBN: 978-0-9552369-5-2
More about the author:
www.thecorporatephilosopher.org
“… a gem to companies and individuals wishing to develop a moral compass.”
“Roger’s ethicability model provides a framework to transform difficult grey areas into a more simple, fundamental approach to making decisions we can be proud of.”
How to Be in Business
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Big Ideas Library Bookshop
You can buy Jacky and Ned's books here and there are links to order books from some of our authors we have worked with recently.
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