by PAUL PHILLIPS
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Finally... a publication date for Book Three!
THE BORODINO SACRIFICE longlisted
for The SpyMasters Book Prize
for The SpyMasters Book Prize
Check out the link above... it's in some illustrious company!
Book signing – Saturday 26th April 2025 at the Wirksworth Book Festival. (Derbyshire, UK.)
Come and pick up a (discounted) book or just ask me a question.
And speaking of questions...
Come and pick up a (discounted) book or just ask me a question.
And speaking of questions...
Reviews are the lifeblood of any publishing success, of course. They also give authors the motivation to crack on and finish writing the next book! I just had to share this latest Amazon review for THE BORODINO SACRIFICE, which really makes me feel that it's all worthwhile. And of course big, big thanks to everyone else who has reviewed in the past – or who plans to soon (hint, hint...)
We have a new trailer!
THE BORODINO SACRIFICE has a sister! Book Two in the CHASING MERCURY series, titled THE HERRENHAUS FORFEIT, is now out, as of 31st August, 2024, and available here. Sign up to my free substack newsletter for more info, sneak previews and other goodies...
If you're in the Derbyshire area on Saturday, April 20th, I will be signing and selling (discounted) paperback copies of THE BORODINO SACRIFICE from 9AM - 4PM at the Wirksworth Book Festival. Come and find me in the Memorial Hall.
As of 1st April (no, seriously...) THE BORODINO SACRIFICE is available on a Kindle Countdown Deal – currently for just £0.99 / $0.99 And here's a new trailer to promote it!
The big news! THE BORODINO SACRIFICE, my first CHASING MERCURY novel, is available on Amazon from 1st February 2024 as a Kindle Edition (and from February 3rd as a paperback). You can find your region-appropriate Amazon page by clicking here. I have set up a dedicated page here, complete with newsletter to sign up to for the latest updates and goodies. Please read, or recommend to someone you know who reads in the spy/action genre & don't forget to leave a review. It will mean a lot to me!
I am sharing my story "Comedic Justice" – originally written for the Shallow Creek book/competition – here.
Alongside a pantheon of more talented writers, I am honoured to have appeared in two further anthologies from independent publishers Kobayaashi Studios: If I were a house (a charitable project with profits going to help the homeless and those in need, still available on Amazon here in the UK and in the US), and FromOneLine to Another, a new collection which features four of my very short pieces and one specially written longer story. This is also now available from Amazon – here in the UK and in the US.
I have had six (I think) pieces selected for publication in this wonderful flash fiction/poetry anthology, FromOneLine (Vol 2), which has grown out of one of my favourite Twitter prompts. Click on the thumbnail to be taken to the website of independent publishers Kobayaashi Studios – and discover how to purchase a paperback copy or eBook, in the UK or worldwide.
I'm also one of a record-breaking 1,000 authors included in this award-winning collection of 81-word stories. (In fact, I'm No.81!)
With profits going to The Arkbound Foundation, a UK charity boosting accessibility and diversity in publishing and journalism, the Saboteur Awards "Best Anthology" of 2022 is available from Victorina Press here or via Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk and should also be in selected bookshops.
With profits going to The Arkbound Foundation, a UK charity boosting accessibility and diversity in publishing and journalism, the Saboteur Awards "Best Anthology" of 2022 is available from Victorina Press here or via Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk and should also be in selected bookshops.
My story "Johanna" has been published in the first Glittery Literary anthology, which is available through UK Amazon (among other places) in paperback here and as a Kindle edition here. Profits go to charities fighting child poverty in the UK.
I am (still) putting the finishing touches to a collection of short stories that span a variety of lengths and genres but are linked around a common theme. This collection, entitled Animus, may be offered on Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing in the near future. I'll keep you posted.
Some of the stories have been published online. A couple of examples:
Targets in STORGY Magazine
Kom-bat on FlashBack Fiction
I also mention the idea behind the collection in this BackStory interview for FlashBack Fiction.
Some of the stories have been published online. A couple of examples:
Targets in STORGY Magazine
Kom-bat on FlashBack Fiction
I also mention the idea behind the collection in this BackStory interview for FlashBack Fiction.
My story "Purple" is included in a cheeky new collection of purple prose, with a purple cover, entitled Sensorially Challenged Volume 1. Available in paperback and eBook editions, it contains 100 bite-sized stories from 100 authors, each bursting with more-or-less-intentional sensory overload (the stories and the authors!)
All profits go the National Literacy Trust, a charity that works to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life.
All profits go the National Literacy Trust, a charity that works to give disadvantaged children the literacy skills to succeed in life.
I also have a story published in Adverbially Challenged Volume 2 - a surprisingly educational, frequently amusing and occasionally thought-provoking collection containing 100 adverb-riddled entries from Mike’s Not-Entirely-Serious Wantonly-Rule-Breaking Adverb Writing Challenge on Christopher Fielden’s website.
All profits go to First Story, a charity changing lives through writing.
All profits go to First Story, a charity changing lives through writing.