The Tudor House imprint began life when Marina Oliver was asked by the Old Girls Club to write a history of her school, Queen Mary's High School, Walsall, for its centenary.
A prestigious, hard cover book was planned, lavishly illustrated with both colour and black and white photographs, as well as cartoons and reproduction of documents such as play programmes. To sell it in bookshops an ISBN number was necessary, and to obtain this a publishing imprint had to be set up.
The brother school, a grammar school, was a Tudor foundation, one of the few to be established during Queen Mary Tudor's reign. A name incorporating Tudor was selected.
Later on, Marina and Debbie Oliver (her daughter) decided to self-publish second editions of two books originally published by How To Books, titles which had gone out of print. They were Starting to Write and Writing Historical Fiction.
Writing Historical Fiction has since been updated and enlarged, and published by Studymates. For details of other books by Marina please visit her web site.
Debbie is a Group Production Editor of Personal Computer World and ComputerAct!ve, and she used her skills to prepare the books for printing. Using Print on Demand techniques, copies of Starting to Write can be produced as needed, either for individual sales, or to sell at the many talks and courses Marina and Debbie run. We also have discounted copies of Writing Romantic Fiction.
For more details and extracts of books available from Tudor House, click here:-
