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Author post: Gary Davison

Last week Gary Davison, author of the brilliant Streakers just out last week was at the Bobby Robson match in Newcastle:

I’ve just got back from the Bobby Robson match. 40 000 screaming geordies, legends of old including the one and only Alan Shearer. England V Germany in a remake of the 1990 world cup semi-final. England were trailing by two goals and struggling, and guess what happens? A well endowed streaker comes onto the pitch and the match turns around, England score two, then Shearer hits the winner. Sound familar? You couldn’t make it up, could you?

The phone has been red hot, everyone asking the same question: did you have anything to do with it?

Me? Get someone to streak across St James’ Park on the same weekend my book Streakers is launched and on the eve of my metro radio appearance? Of course I didn’t, that would be illegal.

Gary

Streakers in The Newcastle Journal

Gary's brilliant novel Streakers has been featured in The Newcastle Journal.

In the interview, Gary speaks about his inspiration for writing the book, as well as how it compares to his previous novel, Fat Tuesday. 

“This is different and not as dark. If I had my way, Streakers would have been the one I had published, as I think it’ll be the best one I’ll write.

It’s like a film in a way, when I move from one scene to the other, keeping all the best bits in.
 
My streaker does something no other streaker has done and gets away with it.”

To read the full interview click here

Order your copy now - £7.99 

Lauren

Streakers is launched!!

The fantastic second novel from Gary Davison was officially launched at Waterstones, Emerson Chamers Newcastle on Saturday. We're really excited about Gary's book, as his hilarious novel is a down-to-earth, light hearted read. One to keep you laughing from beginning to end!

Below is the blurb:

Faccome FC are playing at home when the crowd erupts and a masked streaker sprints across the pitch. As Alex discovers the streaker's identity is closer to home than expected, the town, especially the women, go crazy for the apparently blessed mystery man.

As the police work vigorously to catch the 'Faccome Flash' and the community pulls together to keep their new hero undiscovered, they decide together he should streak again and this time for charity and across St James' Park itself.

As the media debate rages with the whole country catching Flash fever, and the police stopping at nothing to get their man, can Alex help complete the most daring streak of all time?

Order your copy now - £7.99 

Lauren

Exclusively Independent Submissions welcome!

It's that time again when Exclusively Independent is open for submissions!

Any genre, any age, any version, just anything! As long as the title is printed at the time of submission, then feel free to enter. 

To submit a title, just email an AI and manuscript to the address below. Publishers can submit up to three titles per cycle. The current cycle closes 5 August.

Working with an increasing number of bookshops each month, the project is going from strength to strength. We're really proud of the scheme, and hope to continue growing and reaching readers, up and down the country.

Lauren

laurenparsons@legend-paperbooks.co.uk

'A Tale with layers... a heart and a soul' - The Snowing and Greening of Thomas Passmore

Mike French has reviewed The Snowing and Greening of Thomas Passmore in Polish magazine 'Magazyn Lokalny', produced by the Polish community in the Luton and Dunstable area, as its only English article.

"Paul Burman, in this his debut novel, weaves a lyrical tale told with great love and tenderness that spins a magical tale of lost love dipped in sadness, snow and earth. The writing is excellent:

The sea is the colour of granite and the sky is rusty-veined quartz, and between them, they're grinding the day smooth, clean, polished."

To read the full article, click here.

Lauren

A new German wing...

As one of many, many things we are working on at the moment, we've been looking to widen our sales base and to make sure more and more people benefit from reading our fantastic range of books. As part of this, we've recently signed a contract to offer German distribution for our titles, including through one of Europe's largest wholesalers.

Fully details to be announced shortly so watch this space... Lots of do in the meantime - increase sales and media presence in the country for a start - but potentially a very exciting development for our authors and for the business.

Tom

Cover for Streakers by Gary Davison

Here is the official cover of Gary Davison's fantastic new novel Streakers which is launched at the end of this month on 25th July.

Blurb:

Faccome FC are playing at home when the crowd erupts and a masked streaker sprints across the pitch. As Alex discovers the streaker’s identity is closer to home than expected, the town, especially the women, go crazy for the apparently blessed mystery man.

As the police work vigorously to catch the ‘Faccome Flash’ and the community pulls together to keep their new hero undiscovered, they decide together he should streak again and this time for charity and across St James’ Park itself.

As the media debate rages with the whole country catching Flash fever, and the police stopping at nothing to get their man, can Alex help complete the most daring streak of all time?

The book is now available to pre-order on the online shop or using the link below:

Pre-order your copy of Streakers now - £7.99 

Lucy

Launch of the Summer Sale

Today we are launching our special half price summer sale 'Take a Paperbook on Holiday'!

We would like everyone to take one of our fantastic titles on holiday, so hopefully there will be a book to tempt everybody. As a special incentive we offering a free book of your choice to anybody who emails a photo of themselves reading a Paperbooks title on holiday to info@legend-paperbooks.co.uk

To access the online shop follow the link on the right of the page!

Lucy

'fast-paced, sexy and blood-spattered' - Black Mongoose

Robert Guest, former Africa editor of The Economist and author of "The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future" has offered an excellent recommendation of Black Mongoose by Jon Haylett:

"Black Mongoose is a terrific novel: fast-paced, sexy and blood-spattered. Jon Haylett writes hard-boiled fiction with tremendous energy and an eye for unsettling truths."

Robert's book The Shackled Continent shares similar themes with Jon Haylett's novel, trying to explain the reasons why Africa is so poor in relation to the Western world and how it could become less so.

Order your copy of Black Mongoose now - £7.99 

Lucy

Second Exclusively Independent Event

Last Thursday saw the second Exclusively Independent Event at Fulham Library. Taking part in Celebrating Fulham Week meant that we had a collection of listeners from across the area, and what a fantastic event it was!

Despite the beautiful weather, the turnout was extremely welcoming and each author had roughly ten to fifteen minutes to do a reading from their books, and engage with the audience.

Here is a photo of Michael Marr from the event, taken by Adrian Lewis. To view all of the images, visit www.exclusivelyindependent.co.uk over the next few days. Many thanks to Adrian for taking the photos, do check his website to see his work at http://www.adiphotos.co.uk/

A big thank you to Alec, Candi, Mike, Caroline and Peter for sharing their work with us, and of course to those at Hammersmith and Fulham Libraries for all of their help arranging the event.

Now onto the next one!

Lauren