author publishing control

Fiction Direct

I conceived of Fiction Direct way back in the early 1990's, when I first heard about the phenomenon of desktop publishing but it takes a long time to step out.

In 1996,before I even owned a computer or had even tried to turn one on, I had an internet company take one of my earlier novels (The Short Cure) and publish it on the net under the Fiction direct tag.

It was a first for them, in fact it was a first all round, as they told me I was the first person in Britain to put a full length novel on the net. Did anyone see it,or read it, or down load it? I doubt it.

Back then the internet was not what it is now - even the company who did the work for me did not know how to promote it or what to do with it and neither did I.

Since then the whole internet landscape has changed to become an everyday experience in millions of peoples lives throughout most of the world.

Now, many authors frustrated with the agent/publisher stranglehold, have taken control of the means of production.

Writers write to be read. Fiction Direct is my attempt to get my work out into the world.

At the moment Fiction direct is set up as a service to produce and promote my own writing but I would be prepared to consider other work, fiction or non fiction, for publication under the Fiction Direct imprint. If you are interested in this service, first contact should be made through the message board. No unsolicited manuscripts please.