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 and editorial input from 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 Kindle and other ebook platforms for many years but by using Amazon for print too we’re hoping that the improved world-wide availability will lead 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’re very excited about as it’s been a few years now 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 has seen 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 have 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 up will be 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. At the time of writing we have are still planning our final publications for 2024/25 and could yet have room for your work, so get those manuscripts cleaned up and let us have a look. It’ll cost you nothing and we’ll give an honest answer. Have a look at our writer’s guidelines here.
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