'Ringlands' by Richard Willis is WRD's first non-fiction title.  I was very pleased today to see it's had its first download--- by a reader in Ottawa. 
 
This book is the culmination of years of research by the writer, who tramped around Britain with Ordnance Survey Maps, camera and (I've been told) plentiful supplies of wine.  His aim was to find evidence to substantiate his theory about the annular nature of the boundaries of early monastic estates.  And no, annular ...

In 2004, in a distant province of China, scientists discovered the fossilised skeleton of a creature no one had ever seen before. It lay curled in the rock with its head tucked beneath what might have been a wing. The scientists thought the fall-out from a volcano had caused its death, burying it in deep ash as it slept.
They called it Mei Long, which is Chinese for sleeping dragon. But what kind of creature was it? A bird or a dinosaur? How many millions of years ago had it lived?
 
Th ...

Recent uploads: Flash Lives by Ira Elliott,; Tim and Dorothy by Richard Rathwell; A Woman by Ann Hawthorn
Substitute by Elaine Taylor.
Kiss and Tell Collection One, Kiss and Tell Collection Two - each collection contains ten micro life stories.

PR RELEASE – OCTOBER 2010
NOVELIST BECOMES DIGITAL PUBLISHER
Susan Barrett, an experienced novelist, has responded to the present difficulties experienced by fiction writers in reaching their public.  She’s created WritersReadersDirect Ltd, an independent digital fiction publishing company which bypasses entirely the logjam on the desks of literary agents and traditional print publishers.
 Susan says, "Nowadays sales departments rule publishing houses.   It is ...