Gordon E. Moore's famous computing law - which sees processing power roughly doubling every two years - has pervaded every area of our lives. Nothing worthwhile is worth waiting for, which is a dreadful shame.

Teenage ambition can be tough, especially when you have a dream to make it in an industry that is largely dominated by adults. But the times are changing and it won't be long until a spotty, starving, ill-mannered teenager will be on the bestsellers list.

Big budget self-publishing may soon be on its way out, when the test ground for getting your words to see the light of the day can happen in fraction of an amount of the spending that typically happens while self-publishing.

Richard Wright died on 28 November 1960. The Afro-American writer paved the way for future writers like James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison and prepared the ground for the civil rights movement. Both his memoirs Black Boy and Native Son were instant bestsellers and changed the literary scene in the US over night.

You fancy you have that book in you? Give yourself a chance to get it out

There is, it seems to me, scarcely a story that has not been, cannot be reclaimed from the clutches of raw bigotry and turned to something positive for the community targeted.

Today JK Rowling embarks on an exciting new career as a proper serious grown up writer with the release of The Casual Vacancy. Details of the book ...

Someone sent me a link the other day asking me to help save a local bookshop, "Could you tweet this? He needs help." She said and I opened th...

The UK has seen a proliferation of festivals over the last five years from the miniature to the grandest of them all the Diamond Jubilee.

Robert Macfarlane's debut, Mountains of the Mind, was released to unanimous praise - and a string of literary accolades - in 2003. His writing has since established a new authority on the relationship between nature, identity and art, and in so doing cemented his reputation as one of the region's most prolific naturalists.

Peter James is the best-selling author of the Roy Grace series of crime novels including Dead Man's Grip and Dead Like You, as well as several stand-alone books.

Oh dear. Perhaps we should be more careful what we wish for. Only a few days ago we were running around like toddlers at Christmas raving about Twi...

Whilst the big publishing houses have all the resources they need to publicise the authors they have on their books, indie authors have to do all this by themselves, drawing on various tools and resources to help them along the way.

I have been working on the Museum's public engagement since 2009; we now offer a diverse range of activities and in two years our visitor figures have doubled and we have built a database of loyal supporters who regularly attend our events.

So why do we need printed books? The printed book doesn't run out of power or rely on a mislaid charger... I don't need to hide a printed book under the towel on the beach nor, for that matter, does it mind too much if I get sand in the cover... and when I do climb up to the first base of Everest I don't need to worry about a signal.