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In February 2018 dozens of bloggers and hundreds of fans of Fahrenheit got together to run Fahrenbruary - a month long celebration of Fahrenheit Press & Fahrenheit13. The main drivers behind it were two book-bloggers and fans of Fahrenheit Martin Gore & Matthew Keyes.  Martin interviewed Fahrenheit 13 supremo Chris Black over on his blog (you can read it here) and Matthew interviewed Fahrenheit Press head honcho Chris McVeigh over on his. Matthew has decided to discontinue his blog (he will be sorely missed) but before he went he offered to let us re-produce the interview in full on our site so...

Back in December 2020 two writers (Anthony Neil Smith and Matthew Gomez) were shooting the shit on Twitter when one of them suggested that what the world really needed was an anthology of short-stories based around The Ramones – what a dream it’d be if only they could persuade a publisher to take a risk and green-light the project. It literally took them a couple of tweets and one direct message to convince me that Fahrenheit Press was where this anthology was meant to live. I’ve followed The Ramones since I was a teenager and now in my 50s I...

Deathbeds - the new book in Tony R. Cox's popular Simon Jardine Investigates series is published on 30th April and today we're giving you a sneak preview with this exclusive extended extract... Chapter 1 Simon Jardine walked quickly along the Erewash Canal towpath. He’d cut through the maze of streets lined by redbrick terraced houses, once the cramped homes of coal miners and their families, and hurried down the long road from the market at the top of the town to the bridge over the canal’s scummy water. He spotted a smooth, lozenge-shaped stone about two inches long: perfect for...

The 3rd volume of Duncan MacMaster's hugely popular Kirby Baxter series is published on FRIDAY 26th FEBRUARY 2021 and to whet your appetite we're posting this exclusive extract.   Chapter One: A Hazy Shade Of Winter “Any idea why the lights went out?” Molly asked. The blackout had only lasted about a minute, and when the lights came back on, it was like the Atlantic Comics Company Christmas Party had just reappeared out of the darkness as if by magic. It didn’t take long for the music and dancing to start again. The rumours of something going on across the...

I wrote this the day Bowie died in 2016. Quite a few of you have been asking for the link this weekend so I've decided to move it away from the obscure tumblr url it was hiding on and give it new home here on the main Fahrenheit blog - seems to make sense, pretty sure if there had been no Bowie in my life, there would have been no Fahrenheit Press.  Kooks A little 7 year old boy from an irish catholic council house in Glasgow was lying in front of a massive valve powered cabinet tv one night...