A portrait of novelist Diane Dickson by publisher Erik Empson I first met Diane Dickson in 2015 soon after the publication of Leaving George, her first book with us. It was also one of the first books of ours that really took off, selling really well and hitting the bestseller lists. At that time I […]

A portrait of medical crime fiction author, Candy Denman by publisher, Erik Empson I meet Candy after several other appointments, having driven up and down the M1 a couple of times and added to London’s congestion some. I am welcomed into her comfortable St. Albans home; so comfortable, in fact, that after sitting on one […]

A portrait of author and teacher, Denver Murphy by publisher, Erik Empson For an involved father and a schoolteacher, it was almost inevitable that our conversation, after we settled in a hotel bar, should move quickly on to the world of secondary school education and parenting. Denver Murphy quickly gives me a low down on […]

A meeting with lawyer and murder mystery writer Sabina Manea The eye-witness testimony of publisher Erik Empson As our avid readers of the genre will be well aware, a diabolical crime, a devious detective or a grumpy pathologist are not enough to make a gripping murder mystery. The devil is often in the detail. When […]

A portrait of author Ray Clark by publisher Erik Empson I know I’ll get on well with Ray as soon as I discover that, like me, he is holding out against getting a smartphone. This puts him in the self-elected class of the socially disadvantaged where achieving small things like buying a parking ticket or […]