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Sign up for our newsletter – you won’t regret it (probably)
If you haven’t already signed up to our newsletter, can we heartily recommend that you do so. We forget sometimes that people don’t always follow us on Facebook and Twitter and Amazon and don’t know when we’ve got new books coming out. Our newsletter details our new publications but it also features: Other books we’ve…
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What did we do in 2019?
It’s the end of the year. In fact, it’s the end of the decade. And there’s a lot of ‘what have I achieved’ blogs doing the rounds. So we thought we’d do a little recap of what we’ve done in the last twelves months. January 2019 The fourth book in our “Clovenhoof’s Diary” series was…
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So, was that Game of Thrones TV thing any good?
In the final of our blogs about “Thrones” we ask the big question, was the TV series any good? Several author friends of ours have offered their opinions… Steve McHugh (author of urban fantasy series, The Hellequin Chronicles and The Avalon Chronicles.) I quite liked it for the most part. I think it suffered from doing…
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Who would you have on your small council?
Of course, we’re talking about Games of Thrones here. We want to look at that all-important issue of what makes a great leader – the people who are appointed to advise the leader! We asked some of the best authors to pick a new small council for the new king of Westeros. Iain Grant (comedy…
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Who should be king or queen of Westeros, eh?
Of course, we’re talking about Games of Thrones here. The final series of the immensely popular HBO series caused some viewers some deep irritation and lot of Game of Thrones fans weren’t happy with which character got to rule over Westeros at the end of the television series. In the second blog in our series,…
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How should you defend your city from dragons?
Of course, we’re talking about Games of Thrones here. The final series of the immensely popular HBO series caused some viewers some deep irritation and we’re here to address that. In the first of a series of blogs, we take a look at that all-important issue: how should you defend your capital city from a…
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Submissions call for Horror Road Trip
Have you ever wanted to go and visit a place that features in a much-loved film or TV show? Perhaps you’ve deliberately sought them out. This year, after attending WorldCon in Dublin in August, I hope to be able to travel up to Northern Ireland for a few days and visit some of the castles…
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What price research?
Heide and I are currently working on third and fourth books in the Oddjobs series. If you’ve not read them (and you can get the first one HERE) then we should explain that they’re comedy horror novels about the government employees who have to manage upcoming apocalypse and were described by a recent reviewer as…
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The Virtual Reality Book Trailer – Simon Fairbanks gives it a test drive…
We met up with indie author, Simon Fairbanks, at the Edge-Lit genre fiction event in Derby last weekend and we showed him our new Virtual Reality Book Trailer. He was so impressed, we asked him to do a guest blog to describe his experiences… Edge-Lit surpassed my very high expectations: charming authors, fascinating workshops, and…
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Talking about Genres – what makes genre fiction special?
Writers, publishers and readers talk about genre a lot. It’s how bookshops decide where a book belongs. It’s used to draw up charts, award prizes and produce those “If you liked this book, you might also like…” messages on-line retailers send us. Pigeon Park Press asked a number of published authors about the conventions of…