Welcome Fellow Readers and Writers.
At the end of February, I attended a talk at Huddersfield Library.
This was partly because I knew Nick, one of the founding members of Twisted Fate Publishing, whom I met at an Edge-lit event a few years ago in Derby.
It was a great evening which should have had more people there supporting a local creative company.
Twisted Fate Publishing started during COVID when Nick met the other Co-founders Chris and Gareth at the Huddersfield Authors Circle.
They specialise in speculative fiction including fantasy, sci-fi and horror and they agreed the weirder the better.
Each member has a role in the company and they all explained this and how their writing and publishing journeys began.
Chris explained how he wrote technical books but at Forty whilst in the bath decided he wanted to write fiction. Once he'd written his novel he tried a small independent publisher. That didn't work out.
For Twisted Fate Chris writes his own novels including his Fixpoint series, but he also deals with the behind the scenes including the financial side of the business.
Nick started his writing journey at the tender age of fifteen. His fascination with werewolves led to his first novel, Hybrid, being published at Wolf Publishing which was most appropriate. A villain approached Nick promising the world but did nothing with his Hybrid series. Once Nick was out of the contract he helped set up Twisted Fate.
Nick does most of the editing and writing for the publisher as well as his own freelance work.
Gareth, like Chris started his writing later in life and self published his own first novel Fogbound on Amazon. He wasn't fully happy with the process and helped create Twisted Fate.
With experience in marketing, Gareth deals with the marketing side of the company as well as cover design and editing. He also writes his own series, Chronicles of the Fallen.
The guys explained how they see themselves as a cross between a small independent publisher and a big publisher and they don't charge any fees.
Royalties with Twisted Fate are 50/50 and after five years the rights of your novels return to you.
So far they have created and edited two anthologies for the charity Mind. Those being Darkness and Light.
Gareth tried getting a quote from Stephen Fry who was a patron of the charity at the time but couldn't get past his agent.
The second anthology Light has some big name authors including Adrian Tchaikovsky and Peter McLean.
For more details on Twisted Fate Publishing search for them online and check the link below.
https://twistedfatepublishing.com/
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