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A few years ago, not long after we started Fahrenheit, I felt the need to write a blog post asking more women to submit manuscripts to us. (You can read the original post here).At the time almost 90% of the submissions we were getting were from men and that didn't sit too well with us. I'm pleased to say though that our appeal worked and we've enjoyed a fairly healthy split for most of the last two years. Recently though we've noticed submissions from women have dropped back to about 10-15% of all the submissions we receive and the gender...

I first met Ian via the online writing community a decade or so ago. I was writing a fair number of short stories for e-zines, but Ian was an absolute machine, producing new ones seemingly every single day. I think most of thought we were clinging to his coattails, but getting into print together, via the incredible Radgepacket series from Andy Rivers and the much-missed Byker Books was a real thrill. I got there first with my debut Joe Geraghty novel, so it really meant something when Ian said some incredibly kind things about it, a genuine boost that someone...

When a proper old skool noir guy like Jim Thomsen notices one of the books on your list you damn sure better sit up and take notice. This review he's written of Slow Bear by Anthony Neil Smith is as detailed as it is thoughtful and we knew after we read it that we wanted to bring it to the widest possible audience so we asked Jim if he'd let us re-publish it here and thankfully he agreed. It's a great review but it doesn't shirk away from some of the difficult issues facing fiction authors today and we think...

London 1949. Speedway fever runs high. Its stars are the working class heroes of a Blitz-torn city emerging from the ravages of war. With cash in their wallets and hoards of adoring fans, these dirt-track chancers enjoy a life of speed, celebrity and sex. But as Bermondsey Bullets defend their league title, they are rocked by the death of star rider Des Fenton in a mid-race smash. It's the start of a new and dangerous chapter for stadium security boss Reg Calloway, as he's dragged into the dark side of life at the track, with echoes of his own troubled...

We think you'll enjoy this exclusive extract from SLOW BEAR the new novel from Noir legend Anthony Neil Smith. The buzz around this book is really building, here's what people are saying, "More happens in the first two chapters of Slow Bear than in some literary novelist's entire output.Thrills, spills. Twists, turns. Heart, soul. As good as it gets." - Mark Ramsden, author of Mistress Murder, Radical Desire and Dread: The Art of Serial Killing "Anthony Neil Smith mixes dark humor, menace, mayhem and a washed-out, one-armed hero in a noirish tale that never stops to take a breath." -...