A different way of looking at the world
Askance was first established in Cambridge, UK in 2011, although now our interest is international, with contributing authors from many countries. Our base is now firmly established in Atlantic Canada with editorial input from both Canada and the UK. Askance has published more than a twenty titles in multiple formats, including some best-selling fiction and widely respected non-fiction.
Starting early in 2021 we made some of our titles available in print form on Amazon. Our ebooks have been on the Kobo, Kindle and other ebook platforms for many years but by using Amazon for print too we’ve found that the improved world-wide availability leads to a wider audience for all our writers.
One of the first titles to be produced this way was our wonderful short story anthology, a project we were very excited about as it had been a few years since Homes, our last collection in print.
Saltwater and other stories features twelve of the great stories we’ve had submitted to our various competitions over the years. It’s available now, world-wide through Amazon.
Another innovation in 2022 was to make our titles (most of them!) available through The Great British Bookshop. They have excellent distribution through the wholesale trade and an online retail presence.
2023 saw two new titles. From Askance’s founder Caroline Jaine, we’ve seen Looking For Tigers, a beautiful collection of memoirs written in her trademark style – always both entertaining and thought provoking. In addition DJ Wiseman has added Old Wrongs, the third story in his Lydia Silverstream series of family history sleuthing.
A whole rush of activity in 2024 saw the publication of the three-volume set of Prayer Wind, poetry form Jack Hayes which has already been appreciated by many readers across the world and which we submitted to the Griffin Prize For Poetry. Very soon after that we published Blowing Up Growing Up by John Givins, a new poet from British Columbia.
Next was an outstanding novel from Nova Scotia writer Sheila Graham-Smith – The View From Errisbeg. It too has poetry laced right through it and promises to be the highlight read for 2024. In September we celebrated The Last Of The Firsts, a Nova Scotia novel from Allison Maher.
More recently we published more poetry – The Tree Of Life In November – and three outstanding novels, all with their feet firmly planted in Nova Scotia. On Hammet Shore from Shelagh Meagher, if, after snow by Sheila Graham-Smith and Bodies In Summer by DJ Wiseman.
Our publication list for 2026 has included the outstanding poetry collection You Didn’t Hear This From Me, Caroline Jaine’s Book Of Days, Visitors: Stories From The Folds in Time (paranormal goings-on from David Wiseman) and Barachois, remarkable poetry from Cynthia French.
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