A portrait of thriller novelist Anna Willett by publisher Erik Empson Having met with most of our authors based in the British Isles, I’ve Zoomed to the other side of the world, opting to forgo the potential jolly for the sake of the environment and sense. So I journey virtually and don’t take the route […]

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 […]