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We are very happy to announce that the following titles are now available to buy via your regional Amazon:

ABOVE ALL by Jane Elliot

FOX HUNT by Chris Quinton

MAKE DO AND MEND by Adam Fitzroy

The above links are all to Amazon.co.uk but we're sure you can work out the details for yourselves!

The following transcript of our two hour Q&A session on Twitter, which took place yesterday, was kindly prepared by Julie Bozza - who we can't just thank enough!

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Thank you to everybody who joined in; we hope to see you all again next time!
 

To coincide with the week leading up to the F.A. Cup Final in England, we are offering copies of R.A. Padmos's acclaimed novel about football (soccer) players RAVAGES at a special promotional rate. The price on our website will be £1.95, and on Kindle and Rainbow $2.99. On AllRomance we are offering a discount which we hope will work out about the same. If you haven't yet encountered the enthralling saga of Steve and Daniel, their love for each other and the catastrophic events which threaten to destroy their precious happiness together, this would be the ideal opportunity to do so!

Here, for the benefit of those of you with strong constitutions, we present photographic evidence of the Manifold Press AGM in Reading last weekend. These pictures were taken on Chris's phone, which turned out to be the only camera we had with us. Anyway, here are Manifold Press and friends (no names, no pack-drill!) enjoying a meal at the Cafe Rouge, Reading Oracle; if you think we all look as drunk as skunks ... well, we hasten to point out that it was actually water in our glasses, but we all had a very good time nonetheless!

Actually we weren't quite sure how to present this one, since the reviewer has tackled all three volumes of Chris's FOOL trilogy; however the most positive remarks were about the final part, FOOL'S RUSH, and so that's what we've chosen to go with in the end.

Chris Quinton is a fantastic mystery writer! And she builds the plot of this book with her skill and most of all, her experience. When I read this book, I could see an image of a mature, professional novelist in every word that Quinton uses. She has smartly handled every element of this story and different layers to her admirable characters.

To nobody's great astonishment our overall best-seller for April was the resurgent THE DEFINITIVE ALBERT J. STERNE - possibly assisted by a recent good review, but always one of our most consistently popular titles anyway.  Duking it out for the title of best-seller via the website were END OF THE TRAIL and FOOL'S RUSH, which actually finished the month in a dead heat.  While it's always good to see a new book performing strongly, there's a small corner of our hearts in which we're very grateful to see that our older titles are still finding new friends; it gives us great hope for the future!

We are very happy to announce that our two new titles, ALWAYS WITH US by Morgan Cheshire and THE APOTHECARY'S GARDEN by Julie Bozza, are now available to buy through our online shop - and we would like to congratulate the four intrepid individuals (three of them from Germany and one from the UK) who discovered that through a little scheduling faux pas we had accidentally managed to update the online shop module twenty-four hours early and thereby release the books ahead of time!

Anyway, the floodgates are now officially open and we are poised over our keyboards ready to receive your orders!

We are also going to be answering questions on GoodReads for the next few days, so if there is anything you have always been desperate to know about your favourite Manifold Press author or their work this is the ideal opportunity for you to get on over to our GoodReads group and express yourself!

Meanwhile, we'll return to our unceasing quest to bring you intriguing, fascinating and sometimes challenging new m/m romance fiction - and we're delighted to report that our two titles for 1 August are coming along very well indeed (texts completed, covers designed) and we're beginning to look even further ahead to November and February; as long as we keep being offered good quality fiction to publish we'll continue to set it before you, our esteemed readers, on a regular basis.  We can't say fairer than that, really, can we?

Over at Jessewave, guest review Leslie S. has clearly been enjoying Chris Quinton's FOOL'S RUSH, despite not having read the previous two volumes of the trilogy!

If you like your vamps just a little bit different, you’re sure to enjoy Fool’s Rush. As for me, I’m off to pick up the first two books in the series – and I’m going to bat my eyelashes in a winning manner at Chris Quinton and ask if there’s any chance for a story about Lucien, pretty please?

We'll second (third, fourth, whatever ... ) that request too, Chris ...

Julie Bozza's epic THE DEFINITIVE ALBERT J. STERNE has always been one of our strongest sellers but slightly unfairly (in our view) it seems on the whole to have eluded the attention of the reviewers. This situation has now been remedied, however, with a review by Sirius at Dear Author which is extremely positive on all fronts.

I recommend this book very highly, especially if you love snarky, complex heroes and if detailed descriptions of murder with torture do not scare you.

Congratulations, Julie - praise very thoroughly merited!

We are delighted to announce that the extremely popular RAVAGES by R.A. Padmos is now available in a print-on-demand paperback edition; you can order it either directly from CreateSpace or from your regional Amazon.

Congratulations and all good wishes to R.A. Padmos in embarking on this new adventure!