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Most authors would love to see their books sold in supermarkets because that usually means  increased sales. But there's not a lot of space for books in supermarkets and it costs the publisher vast amounts to get what shelf space there is, so only the top names are carried and promoted.  But now all is revealed on how to crack this particular nut and it comes straight from the mouth of the key book buyer in one of the major supermarkets - Asda. In an article in The Bookseller   "Publishers look for angels for salvation as new genre emerges" Asda book buying manager, Steph Bateson, is quoted as saying: "We are still seeing misery (memoirs) working but there are fewer mis-mem titles and more angels books. Dogs is another crossover—a book that combines mis-mem, angels and dogs is our perfect paperback." So here's my cunning plan for getting the next DI Horton marine mystery crime novel stocked in Asda: A reality TV personali...

A nice little article popped into my in box this morning courtesy of Entertainment4media news wire and it made me smile, so I thought I'd pass it on. It's not related to writing, or my marine mysteries or crime novels, but it's highly topical because it's about the office Christmas party, which is obviously why it was sent out now. This little snippet of news might very well have been covered on the radio or TV by now, but here is the link to 'New Survey says we all hate the Work Christmas Party' and below just a little taster. "Lovers of the annual office knees up were in the minority as almost a third of those polled declared they actively hate it and over 40% said they just plain don’t care. The biggest turn off is having to socialise with people with whom we have nothing in common (43%), so probably no surprise that over a third (36%) said they find the whole experience a bore and feared getting stuck with the office nerd (33%). The social pressure t...