LionheART Publishing House is run by novelist Karen Perkins, and helps and supports Indie authors with the practical side of publishing their books, e.g. editing, formatting and professional cover design. Karen and her team have helped over two hundred and fifty books come to publication in the past three years, and she has used this experience to create the LionheART publishing guides for editing fiction and formatting manuscripts for publication. Karen Perkins is the author of seven fiction titles in the Valkyrie Series of Caribbean pirate adventures and the Yorkshire Ghosts Series. All of her fiction titles have appeared at the top of bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, including the top 50 in the UK Kindle Store. Her first Yorkshire Ghosts novel – THE HAUNTING OF THORES-CROSS – won the silver medal for European fiction in the prestigious 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, whilst her Valkyrie novel, DEAD RECKONING, was long-listed in the 2011 MSLEXIA novel competition. Karen’s latest book in the Yorkshire Ghosts Series, is now available. PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS: HAUNTING BRONTË COUNTRY is set in both modern-day and Victorian Haworth – the West Yorkshire home of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Parliament of Rooks delves into the era of ‘The Yorkshire Slavery’, and contrasts the beautiful, inspiring village of Haworth today with the slum – or rookery – it was during the industrial revolution: rife with disease, heartache, poverty, and employing child slavery in the mills. Karen believes that there should be no reason for a reader to be able to tell whether a book has been traditionally or self-published and prides herself on her thorough, accurate and professional standard of work. Also, as a fellow author, she appreciates the emotional ‘trauma’ of the editing process, and works hard to minimize this as much as possible. She is happy to explain her reasoning behind any changes she suggests and is always on hand to answer questions. She feels honored to be asked to help bring a book into the world, and never forgets the most important thing about any book – the story. The reading experience is paramount in her mind whether writing, editing or formatting. "As writers we are wordsmiths, creating a world, characters and story through language, and punctuation is one of the tools of language. To ignore it is like Monet painting with the wrong colors, or Michelangelo attempting to sculpt using a hammer when a chisel is needed. "Words are what we do, language is our medium and punctuation our tool. When I write, I want to take my readers to my world, to join my characters on their journey, to experience their challenges, traumas, desires. I want them to take this journey with me, without noticing the individual words, full stops or commas. I want them to lose themselves in the story, not in the mechanics of it, and this will only happen if all the elements are right." To learn more about Karen Perkins, please see her website: www.karenperkinsauthor.com or her Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Karen-Perkins/e/B009BLBUTY/ She can be contacted by email: lionheartpublishinghouse@gmail.com and is also on Twitter: @LionheartG And Facebook: www.facebook.com/LionheartPublishing ww.facebook.com/Yorkshireghosts www.facebook.com/ValkyrieSeries