We hope you’re all keeping well and safe and sane in these strange and troubled times… Just a quick one to fire the starter’s pistol on our latest call for submissions. The portal-thingy (technical term) where we accept all submissions from authors is now live – you can find it by heading to our Submissions […]
Dedicated Twitter followers will know that a few days ago we let slip that we’ve gone and signed up another author to the Burning Chair family. Step forward, Richard Ayre, who has written an insanely readable historical novel, which we’re seriously excited about publishing this year. More on that to come very soon, but for […]
Well, we told you we’d been busy… ….it is with great pleasure that we introduce to you the latest addition to the Burning Chair family – Niki Baker! We’re currently working with Niki on her debut novel, a thriller which includes the very topical subjects of climate change and global pandemics. It really is a […]
There are some amazing things about being a publisher. Meeting talented authors, getting great stories out to the world, and seeing how much readers love those stories: these are just three of our favourite things (we’re trying desperately not to launch into song, a la Mary Poppins, right now…) But before you get to any […]
Tom Novak is back… Going Rogue is the follow-up to the hugely successful thriller, Going Dark: the book that introduced Tom Novak as the hero who, in the words of best-selling author Tony Parsons, “makes Jason Bourne look like a vegan Pilates teacher”. Going Rogue When a spate of deadly terrorist attacks hit the […]
It’s November which, for many authors, means there’s only one question on their minds: who’s doing NaNoWriMo and have you won yet? For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a not-for-profit organisation whose stated aim is to “help people find their voices, achieve creative goals, and build new worlds—on and off the page”. Since 1999 they have […]
Past or present tense? That was/is the question. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t going to write about this topic. Not until we had a Burning Chair conversation about tense and I said it could be the subject of a blog and Pete had the absolute audacity to start yawning. And not just a stifled, polite […]
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 […]
