Faber & Faber

1 mix-up, 2 misfits, 3 horror stories, 4 fables, 5 speculations make up this collection of short stories by Roger Morris. The stories range in tone from the playful to the sinister. At times surreal, even bizarre, always entertaining, they all demonstrate what the Daily Express once described as Morris’s “storytelling panache”. Buy The Bridge [...]

I’ve been canvassing the views of authors and publishers involved in e-publishing. But I thought it was about time I heard from the people who really matter, the readers. So I’ve put together a short(ish) questionnaire. It’s really designed for people who have an e-reader of some kind, but I would also be interested in [...]

Kate Allan is the author of a number of romantic novels, including Krakow Waltz, Fateful Deception and The Smuggler Returns. Under her married name of Kate Nash, she is also a literary agent and a director at independent publisher Myrmidon Books. She has recently self-published for the first time; a novella, Snowbound on the Island, [...]

All this week I’ve been looking at the rise of e-publishing. First there was a look at Michael Gregorio’s collection of satirical essays about living in Italy in the midst of a crisis. In the second of my ‘Adventures in e-Publishing’ I interviewed Lee Jackson, historical crime writer and the publisher of a series of [...]

KATE LYALL GRANT has worked in mainstream trade publishing for over twenty years. In the past she’s been a senior commissioning editor at Hodder & Stoughton and Simon & Schuster UK, specialising in crime, thrillers and commercial women’s fiction, before joining independent publisher Severn House in 2010. Kate is publisher of Creme de la Crime, [...]

Dr Ian Hocking is the author of two techno-thrillers, Déjà Vu and Flashback, as well as a rites of passage comedy, Proper Job, and a short story collection, A Moment in Berlin. All of them self-published though amazon. In fact, his self-publishing exploits – and more particularly his sales success – have brought him to [...]

Lee Jackson is the author of a number of fine historical mysteries, including London Dust, A Metropolitan Murder and The Mesmerist’s Apprentice. His most recent novel is The Diary of a Murder, which is published by Snowbooks, though it first appeared as a self-published e-book. Alongside his fictional crime-writing activities, Lee is a well-known and [...]

More and more writers are doing it. Putting their work directly out there, without the intervention of the middleman. Self-publishing through kindle. I imagine that most of the writers who choose this route are ones who have been unsuccessful in getting a conventional publisher to take them on. They’ve grown tired of waiting for the [...]

Click here to download the first chapter of The Cleansing Flames. It won’t cost you a penny. If you like what you read, you can get the whole book for just £1.42 on kindle here. Or if you prefer a paper book, you can get it from any good bookshop, or from amazon.

Perhaps I shouldn’t admit this, being a crime writer. But I think I am actually enjoying Borgen even more than The Killing. And I loved The Killing. (Just to be clear, it’s the Danish The Killing I’m talking about here, not the American; I didn’t watch that, so I can’t comment.) The real heresy for [...]