UK Urban Fiction - HardPressed Publishing

Michael D Scott - UK Urban Fiction - HardPressed Publications

News . . . and stuff like that.

I admit it, when I began to write The Enemy of Mine Enemy I was taking the piss out of US 'news-stand' thriller . . . after ten chapters - I couldn't write another word. Lauren Townsend actually quite liked it. Renamed The Sins of the Father, she has rewritten some parts of the story, and I believe the novel is now 50% complete.

Absolution, my first novel is still undergoing revisions. The epic Anglo-American tale of gangsters brings new flavours and twists to the genre. Expect publication - soon.

Commercial interest in Fibonacci's Child continues although I'm disheartened by the changes requested by commercial publishers. Fib's Kid reigned supreme on the Harper Collins website where it has been ranked #1 for longer than other title in 2009.

2010 and Michael D Scott once again proves the popularity of his writing by making the Editor's list on the Harper Collins Website with Arbitration.

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What's New and Exciting?

Arbitration was released by HardPressed as an ebook, and is available on Amazon Kindle. Arbitration is another title which proved popular in the Harper Collins slush-pile, reaching #2 in September 2010. Such is the popularity of the outrageous comedy, the stage adaptation, Pearly Gates, has been developed in time for Easter 2011. Aware that it's not the most appropriate of tales and the 2hr running time is an obvious problem, the BBC wanted to take a look anyway - fingers are crossed.

Little Miss Lighting

Starting life with the working title of "Cup Tied" the story of an East London brother and sister was originally a short story in the "Black Shoes" collection. Removed and renamed "London 2012" to take the emphasis away from the football aspect of the story. The story was bound with "Arbitration" as back to back novellas. Whilst waiting for the Harper Collins review the novella was expanded to some 90,000 and "Little Miss Lightning" was deemed a more representative title as the Carlene is arguably the main character.

The e-book is for sale on Amazon, and I am still waiting for the Harper Collins review!

"This is How In Walk; in My Black Shoes" is about to have another story taken from it. After a proposal for at sitcom "ET2", the story The Best Years of our Lives is about to be re-written as a screenplay to provide the pilot episode.

Even More Exciting

The world isn't all sweetness and roses, and things don't always turn out the way we want them to.

Using death as a central theme they are putting an anthology together to demonstrate the short story art. With some of our favourite authors committed to contributing, you are guaranteed to be taken through the full range of emotions and be slapped by twists that you didn't see ever see coming.

Urban Chat

The HardPressed forum is currently in beta. The authonomy forum contains a number of members who are fed up with the Harper Collins unmoderated, troll infested site. There's no benefit to Hardpressed to provide alternative facilities - but how hard can it be. It is planned to have an international team of volunteers to moderate the site 24hrs a day.

What the Agent said

On behalf of other authors. I accosted literary agent Eve White with their questions. No more hearsay, she provided answers.