By Mark Edwards
The world is full of clichés about never giving up your dreams, of try-try-try again. It’s what fuels reality shows like The X Factor. It’s a story that [...]
Author Archive: vossandedwards
How Real-Life Nightmare Neighbours Inspired The Magpies
The Magpies, Mark’s first solo novel, is released on Amazon Monday March 25th. In The Magpies, a young couple called Jamie and Kirsty move into their dream home together. The other people in the building seem nice – but then everything starts to go horribly, terrifyingly wrong… Mark writes: The Magpies is not purely a [...]
Kindle Fire Treasure Hunt – Find all the blog posts here!
Want to win a Kindle Fire? Of course you do. Here’s what you need to do: over the coming weeks we will be posting articles on ten websites. Each of them contains a simple question, the answer to which can be found in the article. Collect all ten answers and send them to killerreads@harpercollins.co.uk - and you’ll [...]
All Fall Down ebook out now – just 99p
All Fall Down, the third Voss and Edwards novel, was published today as an ebook. It’s a significant day for us because this is our first new novel since we were self-published; in fact, because Killing Cupid and Catch Your Death had already been around for a long time before that, All Fall Down is [...]
Treasure Hunt: A Typical Writing Day for Voss and Edwards
The Voss and Edwards All Fall Down treasure hunt is go! First prize is a Kindle Fire, with runners-up getting a signed set of All Fall Down and Catch Your Death. You might want to read this post first which explains how it works (opens in a new window). Please read this post and, at the [...]
Get Ready for the All Fall Down Treasure Hunt: Win a Kindle Fire!
We are very excited to announce the Voss & Edwards All Fall Down Treasure Hunt. First prize: A Kindle Fire – the superb e-reader from Amazon that also allows you to watch movies and TV shows, play games and, of course, read books! 3 runner-up prizes of a signed set of All Fall Down and [...]
Watoto: A Deadly Fictional Virus but an Amazing Real-Life Charity
“The Watoto mission is not simply about saving as many orphaned and vulnerable children as possible. It is also about raising them up to become future leaders who will bring sustainable change in their nation.” Louise writes: Mark and I wrote the first incarnation of Catch Your Death quite a few years ago, and I [...]
It’s not all glamour: Our first year as published writers
Mark writes: I dreamt of being a published writer for many years – you can read the whole epic saga here – but 2012 was the year it finally happened. Books in shops! Public appearances! Stomach-gnawing anxiety! It all happened. To be honest, these days, with self-publishing a respectable alternative to what is now called [...]
Profanity, Perversion and…Pasties: The Challenge of Writing Sex and Violence
Louise writes: Mark and I have been writing together for over 10 years and we have never had an argument, or any sort of significant disagreement about anything, in our writing or outside of it. (I am SO hoping this doesn’t tempt fate.) I think we’re both pretty proud of this. We have an unwritten [...]
All Fall Down Exclusive Extract: “Lie on the bed and do exactly as I say…”
Read this exclusive extract from All Fall Down (available to pre-order now) in which we meet the deadly assassin, Angelica. Kate Maddox has just been told that a new strain of the Watoto virus has broken out on an Indian Reservation in Caliornia. She has been asked to join a team in the US who [...]
Writers: How to Deal With Criticism in 6 Easy Steps
Mark writes: A few months ago I wrote a piece about the pain and pleasure of Amazon reviews, about the experience of being reviewed, and how we had been attacked by sock puppets, an image which still amuses me a great deal. When you publish a book, whether you are traditionally published or self published, you [...]
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