General updates on Burning Chair
As we bed down for the festive season and switch off the laptops and Kindles for a few days, we wanted to not only wish you all the very best over Christmas and New Year, but take this opportunity to look back at all that’s happened in this, our first, year – and to also […]
Ah, a crackling fire, eggnog, sparkling lights and Shane MacGowan trying to convince Kirsty MacColl that her dreams are safe. Yes, it’s my favourite time of the year; a hearty Merry Christmas to you all from me: Burning Chair’s Simon! So, as we all limber up for two weeks away from the rat race and […]
One of the great things about working at Burning Chair is that we get to meet lots of talented and interesting people. In this week’s podcast we bring you an interview with one of those supremely talented people. After a successful career in the publishing industry, Simon Bewick now focuses on being an author, prolific […]
OK, we’re calling it. Our NaNoWriMo 2018 dream is officially dead. We started out with such high hopes: back on that heady, dreamy morning of 1 November. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the fates were perfectly aligned. We were going to do it. We would achieve something great. Yes, along with thousands […]
As you know, here at Burning Chair we love the written word as much as we love, well… pretty much anything at all. However, sometimes there’s just no substitute for seeing and hearing someone. And we know that some of you (poor misguided souls that you are…) have been itching to find out what we […]
Ah, November. The burnt orange autumnal leaves giving way to frosty mornings* and the early onset of Christmas decorations. But, for writers, November represents something far far more important: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to promote writing and support writers in getting their novels […]
Burning (adj) – on fire; very hot or bright; very keenly or deeply felt; intense; of urgent interest or importance; exciting… Burning (noun) – An Anthology of 14 thrilling stories by 14 outstanding authors. We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our first anthology has now been published. Burning: An Anthology of Short Thrillers […]
If you’re like us, you’ve been really enjoying the deluge of emails telling you all about GDPR over the past year or so (sarcastic side-eye to camera…). And then, like us, you’ve also been enjoying ignoring those emails, looking forward to a brighter tomorrow when you’ll be unsubscribed from sooooo many mailing lists that […]
Hello! Welcome to Burning Chair, a shiny new independent publishing company based in the UK. Burning Chair has been founded to support authors in getting great books out to the readers they deserve. But, we hear you say, please tell me more about this Burning Chair of which you speak. Well, thanks for asking! We […]
