Mike Scantlebury writes stories, novels, plays and songs. His work is on the internet in a variety of sites, some of which he has set up himself. With many years experience of working with ordinary people in a variety of community settings, he has much to say about the state of the world.

Calling people names doesn't solve anything, and for Traditional Publishers to pretend that Internet Authors aren't what they claim to be is hardly going to advance the debate. Join Internet Author Mi...

At last, the Third Part of the trilogy brings an end to the saga. It's not Shrek, Spiderman or Oceans, but it does help to explain how such ideas get into print and reach the reading public, as well a...

Plenty of people write books and many of them are delighted to publish them on the Internet. So they long for readers, right? Bad mistake. The last thing Internet Authors need is surfers, people with ...

Starting your life at school and going on through education is a learning experience for most of us, but we don't want to hear about you. Here in England we only want to talk about people at the extre...

Why do publishers contradict themselves? They want first choice of new novels, but maintain a publication rate that is suicidally low. They underestimate the internet and want authors to try them firs...