Fox Central: The one for voyeurs

For those of you with voyeuristic tendencies, i’ve just finished moving the office upstairs and getting it straight. I still have pictures to frame and hang and obviously most of the bookshelves are in the rest of the house. Still here it is, the heart of the Den.

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Books, my teenage mutant turtle toy bin and a Victorian china cabinet full of action figures and such. Oh and a cat bed.

foxden4Moving round to the right, umm, a scratching post, more bookshelves and my world map (being populated with tiny black foxes).

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My Bureau. This belonged to my grandfather and in it you can almost see his gorgeous portable typewriter all tucked away.

foxden2My computer desk which the printer will go on and the top of my ‘office’ chair, which is actually an old rocking chair. So that’s it. How publishing empires are built. 😉

 

 

Announcing – 25 Ways to Kill a Werewolf

You may have spotted mutterings and rumours about this, but I am pleased to formally announce that Fox Spirit will be publishing ’25 Ways to Kill a Werewolf’ a YA novel by Jo Thomas (@journeymouse) later this year.

I’m delighted Jo will be joining us at Fox Spirit, she has written an unusual and entertaining novel that is perfect for readers who prefer their werewolves to be primal killers and who like their heroines smart and capable.

Fox Pockets!

Fox Pockets is a series of small books (4.25″x6.87″) containing around a dozen flash length short stories in perfect pocket sized editions.

Fox Pockets will provide a quick, inexpensive introduction to the kind of authors we work with and the type of stories we love. The books will contain a mix of horror, sci fi, fantasy and crime and their many sub genres and will be organised around loose themes. Fox Pockets will be collected flashes of inspiration, rather than full short story anthologies.

Cover art will be by the talented and fabulous Sarah Anne Langton who is working to create an image for the collection as well as giving each book its own identity.

There will be ten Fox Pockets in total over 2013 and 2014, released every two to three months.

To celebrate the release of the fist Fox Pocket in April two pocket foxes have been commissioned from the very talented Emily (@foresthouse)

The subjects will be (in no fixed order):

Piracy

Missing Monarchs

Shapeshifters

Guardians

Under the Waves

In an Unknown Country

Things in the Dark

The Evil Genius Guide

Reflections

Piercing the Veil

Due to the small size the books will be available as paperbacks from Lulu and will also be made available in e formats.

Full submission details on the FS Submissions page.

We’ve done updates!

There are now tasters available to download free for all our existing titles and also a story from Tales of Eve. You’ll find the download links on the books own pages.

We are also busy agreeing our publishing schedule for 2013 and it’s going to be an exciting year, we will be doing some open submissions next year so keep an eye on these pages.

Available now

Officially released on Monday 22nd October but if you are sharp eyed you may have noticed it already up on amazon is Alec McQuay’s exciting debut novella ‘Spares’

 

Nun & Dragon Paperback is now available in very limited numbers via our friends at Anachron Press

 

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

The Pirate Flash Fiction contest is now closed. We hope you all had a fabulous International Talk Like a Pirate Day and thanks to everyone who entered.

The winners will be announced on Wednesday next week to give us time to read the entries and make a decision.

The three stories we select will be posted on the website and the authors will, once they arrive with me, receive ltd edition copies of Tales of the Nun & Dragon. They will also be invited to submit for one of the next Bushy Tales anthologies.

All our books, the horror novel Shadows, zombie novella Oasis, thriller Requiem in E Sharp and the anthology Tales of the Nun & Dragon are all available on all flavours of Amazon and Wizards Tower Press.

Pirates!!

Just a reminder that our pirate flash fiction contest ends on the 19th September.

To celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day send us up to 1,000 words on pirates or piracy in any form to adele @foxspirit.co.uk titled ‘Pirate Flash’

The best three will be posted on the website, receive a lts edition hard copy of Tales of the Nun & Dragon and be invited to submit for one of next years Bushy Tails anthologies.

Any genre you like for pirates.

Press Release: Requiem in E Sharp Release Date

Fox Spirit is pleased to announce the release of its first title, a serial killer thriller ‘Requiem in E Sharp’ by South African author Joan De La Haye.
‘Sundays in Pretoria are dangerous for selected women.

A murderer plagued by his childhood, has found a distinctive modus operandi to salve his pathological need to escape the domination of the person who was supposed to cherish him.

As The Bathroom Strangler’s frenzy escalates and the body count mounts, Nico van Staaden, the lead detective on the case, finds himself confronting his own demons as he struggles to solve the murders of the seemingly unconnected victims. The lack of evidence in the sequence of deaths and pressure from his superiors are challenges he must overcome.’

The ebook will be available from 9th July at Amazon and shortly after at Wizards Tower and other outlets.

The book will be made available as a paperback for print on demand later this year.
The release of ‘Requiem in E Sharp’ will be followed later in July by Joan’s post-apocalyptic zombie novella ‘Oasis’. The re-release of her horror novel ‘Shadows’ will be in August.

Also in August Fox Spirit will be releasing its first cross genre ‘Bushy Tales’ anthology ‘Tales of the Nun & Dragon’. This collection features the writing talents of Adrian Tchaikovsky, K.A.Laity, Wayne Simmons, Sarah Cawkwell and many others, with cover art by Vincent Holland-Keen and internal illustrations by Kieran Walsh.