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PEN & INK DESIGNS

PUBLISHING

Established 2002

OUR HISTORY:

Pen and Ink Designs was established in 2002 where it developed services for businesses in the Sports and Fitness Industries working alongside a charity titled Kids-4-Kids.

The Principal of our business, Ann Brady, has been involved in the writing world in different aspects for close on 40 years. During her business career she created an award-winning website, writing over 250 plus pieces of informational work for the site.  This content let the website into winning the International Association of Web Master & Designers ‘Golden Web Award’ for Design, Creativity and Content three years in a row. The only UK on-line business to do so, at that time. She has been fortunate to have her non-fiction work published in National Newspapers, International Magazines, and Educational Tutorials.

Throughout her career Ann has learnt about creating, formatting, and publishing newsletters, as well as various other types of media products. But, following her retirement from business, she changed her writing style from non-fiction to fiction, becoming an Award-winning author with her first historical novel. She then went on to write a number of Children’s Picture Book Stories as well as books in other genres.  

As an author Ann came up against the same problem many new writers experience… that of getting her written work traditionally published. Learning all she could, Ann took this experience and expanded her knowledge into publishing, learning what she could of the Indie publishing world. She then went on to learn as much as she could about the more traditional publishing route, by working alongside a local Welsh publisher.

When we say we understand your frustration about receiving rejection upon rejection we truly do, as our principle has suffered similar problems.  What made it more frustrating for Ann was that she was already an established, successful writer in the non-fiction world of writing.

Going down the traditional publishing route via her fictional short stories in an anthology certainly gave her some success, but it was not yet to be for her novel. This came later. The novel was a labour of love that took over two years to write, be reviewed, and finally edited ready for publication. After it was published it won two recognitions, one being a Silver award.

It is for these reasons that Ann decided to set up Mentoring Writers and Kids-4-Kids; two organisations aimed at assisting new, developing, and occasionally established writers. She has found that writers sometimes feel frustrated by the lack of support they need at the most important times within their writing journey.

WHAT WE DO:

Although Pen & Ink Designs Publishing was moth-balled, it was a couple of years ago that Ann suddenly found herself thrown back into the publishing forum due to her own publisher suddenly retiring.

This meant she had to take back control of her books, plus those she had published for other authors under the Kids4Kids imprint. It was for this reason that she re-launched Pen & Ink Designs Publishing. However, Ann wasn’t alone in being left high and dry as she soon found herself being approached by other authors having similar problems. Which is why she is now working with a number of writers who are preparing their manuscripts ready for publication.

We appreciate that every writer would like a traditional publishing contract, but that is not always possible. This means you often have to opt to self-publish. However, this too can be a mine-field, which is why we have tried to find a way to assist writers who would like a little bit of both worlds.

Whilst, we do work as a traditional publisher, unfortunately due to certain constraints we have to be selective in our choice of manuscripts to accept. Therefore, we have opted to offer our writers the best of both worlds - Traditional and Indie Publishing Services.

Working alongside a number of experienced people, all of whom offer a variety of excellent services across the writing process, we find we can work with authors who want more control of their own destiny. We always do our best to be selective and exacting in our work and with the services we offer. Publishing is our number one service but it is complimented by the needs of all our authors. In other words, if we can help you, then we will do our very best to do so.

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ABOUT US

Ann Brady is a Member of the following associations:

SOCIETY OF AUTHORS UK

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AUSTRALIA SOCIETY OF AUTHORS

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SOCIETY OF CHILDREN’S BOOK WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS

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ASSOCIATION OF FREELANCE WRITERS & JOURNALISTS

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ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORS

 AUTHOR &

 PARTNER MEMBER

Copyright © 2002-24    AB  Business  Group.  All rights reserved.

Pen & Ink Designs Publishing is a division of The AB Business Group

which also includes Kids4Kids.org.uk and Mentoring Writers

Ann Brady  is DBS registered

Certificate No: 001106944026

Pen & Ink Designs is a member of the following:

THE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION UK

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IBPA  USA

( INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION)