General updates on Burning Chair
To celebrate the imminent release of Neil Lancaster’s debut crime thriller, Going Dark, we thought we’d share our top 7 tips on how to write a great crime thriller. The crime thriller genre is complex and we’re clearly not going to do full justice to it in one single blog post. There are some great […]
The Burning Chair team were at the London Book Fair this week. And what an interesting time we all had. There were some great talks and debates and some interesting stands from all across the industry and around the globe. After much discussion, we think we can boil down what we learnt this week into […]
Going Dark, the debut novel from Neil Lancaster will be released this April and we are seriously excited to now be able to share the cover with you. Gritty, stark, thrilling, we think this is one of the most stunning covers we’ve ever seen. Going Dark is the debut crime thriller from former covert […]
To celebrate the release of Georgia Springate’s debut novel, Beyond, on 1 March, we asked Georgia to write a Burning Chair blog on the value of Creative Writing courses – she graciously accepted. Here are her thoughts: So, before I delve into the what’s, when’s and why’s of my own experience, let me throw […]
To celebrate the imminent release of Beyond, the exciting debut novel from Georgia Springate, we thought we’d share our Top Five Emotional Young Adult (YA) Books. Beyond is the story of Alex, a 14-year-old boy who has to put up with not only the usual teenage boy issues – school; a girl who’s oblivious to […]
A few weeks ago we were over the proverbial moon to be able to interview Georgia Springate ahead of the publication of her first novel, Beyond, which is released on the 1st March. Georgia is in the final year of her English Literature degree at The Open University and lives in a crazy house in […]
Beyond, the debut novel from Georgia Springate will be released on 1 March 2019 and we are seriously excited to now be able to share the cover with you. Designed by the creative genius, Jennie Rawlings, over at Serifim, we think this is one of the most stunning covers we’ve ever seen. Beyond is […]
We are absolutely thrilled to introduce Georgia Springate, an exciting new writer whose first novel, Beyond, will be released on the 1st March. Georgia is in the final year of her English Literature degree at The Open University and lives in a crazy house in Bedfordshire, crammed full of eight members of her family, […]
Last week, we were extremely privileged to take part in #SFFpit, the Twitter-based book pitching event. It was great to see so many exciting and innovative pitches come through and as a consequence we are now rapidly reading through all of the submissions we received with the aim of providing feedback to everyone who submitted […]
Love it or hate it, social media is now a fundamental part of being a published writer. Even if you’re traditionally published, you will be expected to have a profile prolific enough to support the marketing of your book. If you’re published with a smaller independent like us, or self-published, then social media is probably […]
