Jeff Noon’s first book Vurt was published by a small press before winning the 1994 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Jeff Noon’s latest book, A Man of Shadows, will be out in August from Angry Robot. We talked about his unique approach to story telling and his Haunted Futures story, “Mercury Teardrops”.
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If you’ve been following along recently, you know we’ve stopped publishing and are on hiatus. This happened for a couple of reasons. The inciting incident, so to speak was that Salome, our acquisitions editor was very ill and in the hospital for weeks. Then she spent months recovering. But underlying issues also existed. Salome and […]
The core of Ghostwoods Books is being fair to authors, which means splitting a book’s sales 50/50. That’s our strength, but it’s also a vulnerability. Most books don’t sell that many copies, and that’s true right across the publishing industry. When you’re being fair to authors, and to readers, that means not much income. We’ve always […]
When Tim started Ghostwoods Books, he was mostly thinking that digital publishing might allow publishers to share profits equally with writers. We tried that for a while before realizing that books were very hard to sell unless you had a strategy for attracting readers. We continued publishing while also doing editing and writing as a […]