Two friends of mine have written novels which I think are well worth sharing with you. The first is called No Place for Dinosaurs, a police procedural thriller written by an ex Detective Inspector from the North called John Morrison. It is unlike any other book in the \u2018genre\u2019 I\u2019ve ever read. It reeks of authenticity, and shows the police up in a new light entirely. Today I\u2019m giving you the first chapter, and exhorting you buy it from Amazon. For the cynics out there, I don\u2019t have any financial interest in either of these books.<\/p>\n
The second one, which also goes up on Amazon today, is short, punchy, and uncategorisable, written by a woman who calls herself Margaret McCann. In this age of Fifty Shades of Grey it won\u2019t perhaps be as shocking as it would have been not long ago, which is a pity in a way. It\u2019s about a young art student called only \u2018J\u2019 (the title of the book) who gets involved with a man called Chef, and ends up as a strangely willing sex slave. It\u2019s truly weird, deeply felt, and very strangely pitched. Neither me nor \u2018Margaret\u2019 \u2013 who is in fact a well known and widely respected painter and photographer \u2013 is absolutely certain what it \u2018means,\u2019 but I\u2019m happy to have published it on my Skinback Books imprint. Like many other fine volumes, it has done the rounds of \u2018mainstream\u2019 publishers and agents. Many of them praised it to the skies. None of them was brave enough to take it on.<\/p>\n
As well as putting up \u2018tasters\u2019 for these books, I\u2019ve written about them on my Authors Electric monthly blog. I might put up more extracts here soon. But they\u2019re both cheap, and they\u2019re both deeply kick-ass. Here are some links:<\/p>\n
Extracts<\/a> from the two books Two friends of mine have written novels which I think are well worth sharing with you. The first is called No Place for Dinosaurs, a police procedural thriller written by an ex Detective Inspector from the North called John Morrison. It is unlike any other book in the \u2018genre\u2019 I\u2019ve ever read. It reeks of… Continue reading Spreading it around a bit<\/span>
\nMy blogs at Author’s Electric<\/a>
\nThe Facebook page for Skinback Books<\/a>
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