behind the scenes
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Firewords ventures into book publishing with JJ Scott’s debut novel
We’ve had our sights on expanding Firewords to publish novels as well as the magazine for a long time. There’s a lot of overlap in the world of book and magazine publishing – printing, distribution, stockists etc. and we have obviously met 100s of talented writers over the years! We’ll be starting slowly with Jen’s…
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Firewords ventures into book publishing with JJ Scott’s debut novel
We’ve had our sights on expanding Firewords to publish novels as well as the magazine for a long time. There’s a lot of overlap in the world of book and magazine publishing – printing, distribution, stockists etc. and we have obviously met 100s of talented writers over the years! We’ll be starting slowly with Jen’s…
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Firewords ventures into book publishing with JJ Scott’s debut novel
We’ve had our sights on expanding Firewords to publish novels as well as the magazine for a long time. There’s a lot of overlap in the world of book and magazine publishing – printing, distribution, stockists etc. and we have obviously met 100s of talented writers over the years! We’ll be starting slowly with Jen’s…
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Artist interview: The secrets behind the cover of Issue 10
We wanted something special for the cover of our 10th issue (copies still available here) and with the theme of ‘Curiosity’ we know Guillermo Ortego was the man for the job. We’ve worked with Guillermo on several illustrations for Firewords in the past and we were always impressed by the care he puts into his…
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Artist interview: The secrets behind the cover of Issue 10
We wanted something special for the cover of our 10th issue (copies still available here) and with the theme of ‘Curiosity’ we know Guillermo Ortego was the man for the job. We’ve worked with Guillermo on several illustrations for Firewords in the past and we were always impressed by the care he puts into his…
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Artist interview: The secrets behind the cover of Issue 10
We wanted something special for the cover of our 10th issue (copies still available here) and with the theme of ‘Curiosity’ we know Guillermo Ortego was the man for the job. We’ve worked with Guillermo on several illustrations for Firewords in the past and we were always impressed by the care he puts into his…
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Double figure milestones
With Issue 10 being a big milestone for us, we took the opportunity to look back at the Firewords story so far. We’ve done the maths and totalled up a few fun stats of our 10 issues… We’ve collaborated with 129 artists, illustrators, photographers and hand-letterers. All have been unique, talented and a joy to…
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The Design of Firewords – Case Study #3
Guillermo Ortego & his artwork in Issue 6In this feature, we look at the design of Firewords more closely. This series of blogs will allow us to meet some of the creative talent we’ve worked with and find out why they made the design decisions that they did.Meet Guillermo Ortego, an illustrator originally from Madrid, who…
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The Design of Firewords – Case Study #3
Guillermo Ortego & his artwork in Issue 6In this feature, we look at the design of Firewords more closely. This series of blogs will allow us to meet some of the creative talent we’ve worked with and find out why they made the design decisions that they did.Meet Guillermo Ortego, an illustrator originally from Madrid, who…
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The Mystery of the Missing Poem
If you were an eagle-eyed reader of Issue 6, you may have noticed an error on page 8: A poem has been attributed to Cody A. Conklin but the poem fails to appear in the magazine! Well done if you were one of the few who recognised the printing mistake. We would love to blame…