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Guest post: What Makes a Great Thriller?
Mel Sherratt is currently riding high in the Kindle store with her self-published novel Taunting the Dead. As I write, this tense thriller, set in Stoke-on-Trent and a must-read for fans of Martina Cole, is No.4 in the Kindle chart and No.1 on thrillers. She has achieved this purely through great word of mouth and [...]
The Common Cold Unit: The Inspiration for Catch Your Death
By Louise Voss Most people who grew up in Salisbury from the 1940s to the 1980s knew about the Common Cold Research Unit (as it was originally called, before being abbreviated to the Common Cold Unit) and many knew of someone who had volunteered there. I never heard anything negative about it – it had [...]
Catch Your Death is No.1 on iTunes
For the last week, Catch Your Death has been No.1 in the Crime and Thrillers chart on iTunes (or iBooks – we are never quite sure what to call it!) It has also been dipping in and out of the overall Top 10 paid books. It’s lovely to see the book back at the top [...]
Meet Sarah Ann Loreth, Catch Your Death Cover Photographer
Twitter can be a wonderful thing. Thanks to Twitter, we got in touch with Sarah Ann Loreth, who took the photograph that is used on the cover of Catch Your Death. It’s a striking, creepy image, and we asked Sarah to tell us more about it: The photo was taken last March at an abandoned [...]
Reader of the Month: Colin Noller
This is the first of a new feature on VossandEdwards.com. Each month we will be interviewing one of our readers, to find out a little more about the people who read our books. If you would like to be featured, please leave a comment on our Facebook wall. Say hello to January’s reader: Colin Noller. [...]
Catch Your Death Week 2: Ooh, nurse!
The second week of having Catch Your Death out there in the world as a real book was even more exciting than the first. To start with, we had our launch party. We chose an awesome venue in central London called Dispensary, a medical-themed bar within the Piccadilly Institute. Not only were there bodies floating [...]
Live Event: Q&A at King’s College London, January 18th
We are doing our first ever live event tomorrow, January 18th, at King’s College, London, at 7pm. It’s open to all and is free. We’ll be talking about our story and answering questions on… well, anything really: the books, writing, publishing, how we did it. The floor will be open for questions. Maybe we’ll reveal [...]
Catch Your Death – A Week in the Life
Catch Your Death has been in the shops for a week now and it’s been an exciting experience. Launch day was great, with so many people being all lovely and supportive all over Twitter and Facebook, including thriller-writing legends Peter James and Stephen Leather, thriller-writing geniuses Emlyn Rees and Elizabeth Haynes, and a whole bunch [...]
Top 50 eBook Bestsellers 2011
The Bookseller have announced the top 50 eBook bestsellers of 2011 – and Catch Your Death is in it! Not surprisingly, the chart was dominated by Stephen Leather and Stieg Larsson, and topped by Confessions of a GP. We came in at No.49. That’s a great achievement especially as CYD was only available on Amazon, [...]
Writing Lab Lit: Find us on Scientific American
Our brilliant scientific advisor, Jennifer Rohn, who runs a fantastic site called LabLit.com on which she features novels that have scientists as their main characters, has written a fascinating blog about helping us with our new novel, The Antidote, which will be the sequel to Catch Your Death. A couple of months ago, we visited Jenny’s [...]
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