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WOUNDING by Heidi James published today

Bluemoose publishes WOUNDING by Heidi James today, 24th April 2014. The official launch is next week, Thursday May 1st in Londinium. Already there have been some fantastic review, which I will post later on today.

Congratulations to Heidi on her debut novel.

April – Arts Council Fiction Group Book of The Month

Bluemoose is proud to be a member of the Arts Council Fiction Group. All the publishers in the group have received significant Arts Council funding, either from the National Portfolio or from Grants for the Arts, and demonstrate how effective Arts Council funding has been in widening the range of fiction available to readers in England. The publishers in the group have very different lists but all share a commitment to artistic excellence, finding and nurturing the writers of the future and providing an alternative to commercial fiction.

Collectively we have won a lot of literary prizes and accolades and have made an important contribution to the creative economy. We are an Arts Council success story and our books make the case every day for Arts Council England’s investment in literary fiction. We have formed ourselves into a group to help promote what we do and argue the case for public investment in literary fiction. There is a link to the websites of all the publishers in the group and each month the group will recommend the work of a publisher in the group and take part in Arts Council Fiction Group promotions.

April’s featured publisher is And Other Stories and the recommended title is Paradises by Iosi Havillo

‘Havilio has found just the right tone and understated register to describe extremity. Paradises takes place in an irresistible, ghostly normality.’ Beatriz Sarlo, author of Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge

Arts Council Fiction Group members’ web sites:

BEASTINGS by Benjamin Myers

We publish BEASTINGS on 3rd July 2014.

Ben won The 2013 Northern Writers Award.

The opening chapter of Beastings won the Northern Writers’ Award 2013. Judge Sarah Hall said:

Myers’ prose is taut, confident, professionally polished but at the same time maintaining a sense of rustic and unrefined authenticity, that which is truly hewn…it feels real – rain, mountain terrain, bothy kitchen, vestry, and all.

Also published by Bluemoose, Myers’ last novel Pig Iron (2012) was the winner of the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize. Judge Deborah Orr said:

Pig Iron is an important book because it tells a story that has shaped all contemporary Western humans, but is routinely, inexplicably overlooked – the great move from agricultural life to industrial life.

Frodsham Literature Festival

If you’re around this part of Cheshire on Friday 4th April at 6.30, I’m the warm up act for the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, no relation. I will talking about Independent publishing and the fun we’re ahbing publishing some cracking books that have won awards and also the trials and tribulations of the New Age of publishing as Amazon, the death star, consumes all that lays before it.

Visit the festival's website for more information.

The Arts Council Fiction Group

We’re really chuffed to have been asked to join The Arts Council Fiction Group alongside five other award winning Independent publishers. Together we have published some cracking stories that enagage and inspire and stand out from the bewildering output of the big corporates. The publishers are:

Together we will be promoting and marketing brilliant books. Each and every publisher is passionate about getting wonderful stories that are beautifully written into the hands of readers. We’re proud of our independence and that’s what makes us unique, we don’t pander to trends, we set them.

Our month for promoting a Bluemoose title will be June. Watch this space.

Bookish Supper Society

The Bookish Supper Society will be wining, dining and listening to authors, Mark A Radcliffe, Nina de la Mer and Irma Kurtz in Brighton on Wednesday 12th February. Good food and good stories. Doesn’t get any better than that does it.

Socrates Adams goes to Hollywood

Bluemoose author Socrates Adams, whose novel, A MODERN FAMILY, we published late July 2013, is off to Hollywood. Jack Black will be producing a remake of WIZARDS WAY, co-written and starring Socrates. Socrates, Joe Stretch and Chris Killem made the film for £400. It won the London Comedy Award 2012, was premiered at The BFI last January and will be premiered at the Slamdance Festival in the United States on January 19th. Apparently Jack will be buying the cocktails. Best grab a copy of A MODERN FAMILY before they sell out.

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