About us

email: enquiries@ideas4writers.co.uk

post: ideas4writers, PO Box 49, Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1WX, United Kingdom

tel: 01884-839577

The people

ideas4writers is run by a husband and wife partnership based in the Culm Valley in Devon, UK.

Dave Haslett has been writing since the age of 13 and has a wealth of knowledge and experience, having written novels, non-fiction books, short stories, reviews, articles, scripts and screenplays. He is a qualified computer specialist, programmer and trainer with over 20 years experience, and feels perfectly at home with his hands in the innards of a PC. He is also an experienced webmaster who designed and built one of the first intranets in the UK, long before such things were fashionable.

Dave is the author of The Fastest Way to Write Your Book and is available to give talks and workshops in the UK.

Dave is on Facebook.

Kate Haslett is an avid reader and has been devouring books at a rate of knots since early childhood. She is an experienced proof-reader and office administrator, as well as a part-time librarian and busy housewife and mother.

Both partners are members of Mensa. They have two daughters.

ideas4writers began in November 2001, based on a quote by Whitbread Book of the Year winner, Philip Pullman.

Where do you get your ideas from? Philip Pullman was asked by one interviewer. Tongue firmly in cheek, he replied: "I subscribe to www.ideas.r.us.com For £25 a month I get 30 ideas, new and unused, success guaranteed. You can get second-hand more cheaply, but they don't come with a guarantee, and they wear out."

After several months of research, design and programming, a lot of hard work and some very late nights, we proudly launched ideas4writers.co.uk on 12 August 2002. At long last we are able to provide an answer to that eternal question asked of all writers: "Where do you get your ideas from?"

Thanks Philip.

ideas4writers' first book The fastest way to write your book (written by ideas4writers founder Dave Haslett) was published on 16 May 2005.

ideas4writers relaunched as a book publisher on 1 August 2006. The members' section of the website is now preserved (and occasionally updated) as a bonus resource for purchasers of the above book.

ideas4writers launched i4w2, the ethical publishing service, on 4 October 2006. At the present time it is not accepting new submissions due to work on other projects.

ideas4writers is a trading name of DA Haslett, 2a New Street, Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1HA