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Crooked Cat publishing


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Crooked Cat Publishing is a new, independent publisher based in the UK. We accept submissions in several genres. We're looking for high quality fiction from new and established authors. Please check www.crookedcatpublishing.com for details.

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    A Departure    by Tom Ward
    Price: $2.99 USD. 102520 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 28, 2013. .
    Michael's life is good. He's in love and about to leave home for university. Things couldn't be better. Then a natural disaster hits Britain.
    Tomorrow's Anecdote    by Pamela Kelt
    Price: $2.99 USD. 100490 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 22, 2013. .
    Just another day in the newsroom? Hardly. October 1987. Clare Forester is an overworked and under-appreciated features subeditor on a provincial paper in Somerset. She spends her time cheerfully ranting about her teenage daughter, her spiteful mother, the Thatcher government, new technology, grubby journalists, her charming ex - and just about anything else that crosses her path.
    The House of Wood    by Anthony Price
    Price: $2.99 USD. 60310 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 3, 2013. .
    It sits out there on the hilltop. Dark. Foreboding. The locals steer clear of it. The House of Wood.
    The Visitor    by Catriona King
    Price: $2.99 USD. 92120 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on March 27, 2013. .
    Belfast is in danger. Murder in a closed Belfast world where evil goes undetected; where caring people have uncaring intentions. People should be safe in this place. They shouldn’t die unexpectedly. D.C.I. Marc Craig and his team hunt across Belfast for a psychotic killer who targets the vulnerable and leaves their children to pay. The Visitor. The third in the D.C.I. Craig detective series.
    The Chocolate Egg Murders    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 53210 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on March 17, 2013. .
    It’s Somerset for the Sanford 3rd Age Club and, at a busy charity weekend in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, Joe, Sheila and Brenda are looking forward to a relaxing time. But along with the chocolate for the Great Egg Hunt, someone has hidden a body, and even before the rain stops, the STAC are in the thick of it.
    Breath of Africa    by J.L. Bwye
    Price: $3.99 USD. 94140 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on March 12, 2013. .
    Thirty years of Kenya's recent history unfold through the lives of Caroline, a privileged woman from the highlands, and Charles Ondiek, a farm labourer with dreams of an Oxford education.

 Charles’s love for Teresa, daughter of a hated farmer, leads to a drama of terror fuelled by Mau Mau oath administrator, Mwangi. Against the backdrop of Kenya’s beautiful desert, the curse is finally broken.
    How Do You Spell Love?    by Zanna Mackenzie
    Price: $2.99 USD. 80290 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on February 24, 2013. .
    Make a wish. Kat can’t help wishing there was more to life than this. What happened to her dream job? What happened with Nathan? Summer is wondering where her life is going too... battling the developers of a controversial housing estate and working out why boyfriend Rob is increasingly distant.
    I Know You Know    by Helen A. Howell
    Price: $2.99 USD. 28510 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on February 17, 2013. .
    The darkest cards in the tarot deck reveal the darkest side of the man sitting opposite Janice—Mr. Edgar Kipp. She feigns an inability to read for him, but will he believe her?
    My Deadly Valentine    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 49590 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on February 2, 2013. .
    Valentine’s Day approaches and a lonely Joe Murray has his eye on the newest member of the Sanford 3rd Age Club, Letty Hill. But when the Sanford Valentine strangler strikes for the fourth year in succession, Joe’s amorous inclinations are sidetracked. And he doesn’t have far to look for the prime suspect... it’s him.
    A Guide To Becoming Distinctly Average    by Amy Elliott-Smith
    Price: $2.99 USD. 42300 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 27, 2013. .
    Life is a bitch. Depression is a bitch. Spending your life with depression, working with bitches is the worst of the worst. A Guide to Becoming Distinctly Average is a laugh-out-loud, dark comedy, which delves into the depths of a thirty-something dog groomer’s mind as she struggles to cope with life, depression and dogs who wee up her sofa.
    A Summer of Love    by Michela O'Brien
    Price: $3.49 USD. 77890 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 20, 2013. .
    Successful artist Jonah Briggs is a man who has made mistakes. Aged just eighteen, he was sent to prison for two years, leaving his first love, Sally, to wait for his return. But at eighteen, two years seem like a lifetime, and some promises are hard to keep. When Jonah reappears in her life, Sally finds herself torn between him and Ewan, divided between loyalty and passion, duty and love.
    The Handshaker    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 102940 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 15, 2013. .
    The Handshaker: to take his hand is to invite death. In the darkest corners of hypnotic trance, who is in control? The Handshaker has put eight women to death. When another woman commits suicide, hypnotist Felix Croft believes he has the answer. Then The Handshaker takes Croft’s girlfriend. The game changes.
    Shaman's Drum    by Ailsa Abraham
    Price: $2.99 USD. 56450 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 6, 2013. .
    England in the near future. Mainstream religions have been outlawed, and the old gods rule again. Iamo has been a priest of the Great Mother and is sworn to celibacy, but his love for Riga, a Black Shaman, a magical assassin, caused him to break his vows. Iamo and Riga must discover why demons are breaking through from the other side. Who can they trust?
    Amy & Zach    by Sarah Louise Smith
    Price: $2.99 USD. 81350 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 4, 2013. .
    “mysterious, intriguing and romantic...hard to put down” Meet Amy & Zach Amy has moved to the US in order to find her real father, but she hasn’t quite worked up the courage to do so yet. Then she met Zach, who swept her off her feet. They fell in love, fast. But Zach has a secret with the potential to ruin everything.
    King's Raven    by Maggie Secara
    Price: $4.99 USD. 108520 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on December 18, 2012. .
    (5.00)
    King’s Raven, second book of the Harper Errant series, sends Ben on a journey from the castles and taverns of Old England to the British Museum on Christmas Eve, and from the Crystal Palace of Victorian London to wintry Dartmoor to a magickal conclusion.
    Myopia    by Jeff Gardiner
    Price: $2.99 USD. 53560 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on December 6, 2012. .
    ‘Here comes four-eyes!’ Jerry is bullied for wearing glasses. When he realises his short-sightedness is not a disability but a new way of perceiving and understanding the world around him, he begins to look at it from a new, unique perspective. Myopia is a novel about bullying, friendship and learning the hard way.
    The Grass Tattoo    by Catriona King
    Price: $5.99 USD. 94920 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on December 6, 2012. .
    Belfast is in trouble. A body is discovered at a Belfast public place, with symbolism originating far from Northern Ireland. Join D.C.I. Marc Craig and his team as they lead the hunt for the daring killer that leaves a body at one of Northern Ireland's most famous landmarks. THE GRASS TATTOO. The second in the D.C.I. Craig detective series.
    Topaz Eyes    by Nancy Jardine
    Price: $2.99 USD. 90390 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on December 3, 2012. .
    A peculiar invitation to Heidelberg embroils Keira Drummond in the search for a mysterious collection of extraordinary jewels once owned by a Mughal Emperor; a hoard that was last known to be in the possession of Amsterdam resident, Geertje Hoogeveen, in 1910. Greed, suspicion and murder are balanced by growing family loyalty, trust, and love.
    Murder at the Murder Mystery Weekend    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 82940 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on November 18, 2012. .
    Happy New Year! The bells ring out over the city of Lincoln, and at the Twin Spire Hotel, the Sanford 3rd Age Club celebrate with their customary enthusiasm. It’s the kind of party Joe enjoys; a Murder Mystery Weekend. A drama designed to tax his powers of observation and deduction.
    A Murder For Christmas    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 78720 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on October 27, 2012. .
    Christmas and the Sanford Third Age Club are living it up at the Regency Hotel. But on a snowy Christmas morning, there’s murder afoot, and it’s up to Joe, Sheila and Brenda to find the killer. For the Yorkshire sleuths, it’s a taxing mystery, marinated in a yuletide party atmosphere.
    One Eyed Jack    by Teresa Cutler Broyles
    Price: $3.15 USD. 57700 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on October 4, 2012. .
    When 12-year old Lauren Miller buys a young Thoroughbred hunter/jumper on impulse to save him from being put down, she has no idea just what’s in store for her and her first horse. Jack, a bright red sorrel, has lost his right eye in a tragic accident, and Lauren is determined to help him adjust and then enter him in the Trail class at the end-of-summer show. Will Jack rise to the task?
    FEAR: A Modern Anthology Of Horror And Terror - Volume Two    by The Crooked Cat
    Price: $0.99 USD. 101070 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on October 1, 2012. .
    Fear - A Modern Anthology of Horror and Terror brings together, for the first time, tales of murder, monsters and madness, by sixty of the world's best indie horror authors. Every author in the Anthology has generously contributed their work for free. All royalties from sales will go directly to the international charities, Barnardo's and Medicins Sans Frontieres.
    FEAR: A Modern Anthology Of Horror And Terror - Volume One    by The Crooked Cat
    Price: $0.99 USD. 101330 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on October 1, 2012. .
    Fear - A Modern Anthology of Horror and Terror brings together, for the first time, tales of murder, monsters and madness, by sixty of the world's best indie horror authors. Every author in the Anthology has generously contributed their work for free. All royalties from sales will go directly to the international charities, Barnardo's and Medecins Sans Frontieres.
    A Halloween Homicide    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 52620 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on September 10, 2012. .
    It's the end of October and the Sanford Third Age Club are on one of their outings with an overnight stay in the haunted Palmer Hotel. As the witching hour approaches, things begin to happen. A valuable necklace goes missing and a guest is found dead. A host of suspects. A range of motives. It's a complex and maddening puzzle for Joe and his chums in this, the third in the STAC Mysteries series.
    Painting By Numbers    by Tom Gillespie
    Price: $2.99 USD. 91170 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on September 2, 2012. .
    Painting by Numbers is a dark, surreal thriller that follows one man’s relentless pursuit into an old truth buried deep within. Day after day, Jacob Boyce visits a 17th century allegorical painting which hangs in a Glasgow art gallery. By using a series of measurements and calculations, he attempts to create a mathematical theory that will decipher the code locked into its canvas.
    The Beltane Choice    by Nancy Jardine
    Price: $4.50 USD. 81670 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on August 28, 2012. .
    Can the Celtic Tribes repel the Roman army? AD 71 Banished from the nemeton, becoming a priestess is no longer the future for Nara, a princess of the Selgovae tribe. Now charged with choosing a suitable mate before Beltane, her plan is thwarted by Lorcan, an enemy Brigante prince. When danger and death arrive in the form of the mighty Roman forces, will Nara be able to choose her Beltane lover?
    A Limited Justice    by Catriona King
    Price: $5.99 USD. 81660 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on August 20, 2012. .
    A Limited Justice is the first in a crime series set in 21st century Belfast featuring Detective Chief Inspector Marc Craig. When a body is discovered at a petrol station, Belfast D.C.I. Marc Craig is called to investigate. Within a day, a second body is found. Then a third. This time, it’s personal.
    Blackbrooke    by Emma Silver
    Price: $1.59 USD. 118020 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on July 17, 2012. .
    Blackbrooke is a Young Adult horror novel that has you on the edge of your seat. The residents of Blackbrooke share their town with the Creatures, or Crits as they are known. Grotesque, roaming the streets at night looking for food, their presence means humans have to live by the Rules, keeping them indoors and forbidding them of basic desires. The most important Rule? Don’t be a ‘walk out’!
    How To Look Like You    by Rose McClelland
    Price: $2.99 USD. 79350 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on July 2, 2012. .
    Have you ever had a frenemy? Someone you smile at sweetly but secretly you are filled with jealousy? Meet Chloe and Ella. While Chloe sees herself as dowdy, quiet and going nowhere, Ella is brimming with talents: acting, singing, and outward-sitting, bronzed boobs. Find out How To Look Like YOU.
    The I-Spy Murders    by David Robinson
    Price: $2.99 USD. 80880 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on June 25, 2012. .
    It’s August and Gibraltar Hall hosts reality TV show I-Spy with Brenda as one of the contestants. Her Sanford 3rd Age Club friends arrive to welcome her back after a week’s stay in the house. Inside, feelings run strong between the Housies. Arguments become heated. Then one of them is found dead.
    Swallow the Sea    by Keddy Flett
    Price: $4.19 USD. 85060 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on June 17, 2012. .
    In the second instalment in the Swallow series, you are invited to travel across Peru and Ecuador in the crevasses of Keddy’s brain as he wades his way into the light at the end of the sewage tunnel. Swallow the Sea introduces Keddy and Poppy to a brand new cast of colourful and kooky characters as they explore their own relationship, leading to a surprisingly shocking outcome.
    Blütenzauber    by Angelika Hochadel
    Price: $4.87 USD. 8890 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on June 9, 2012. .
    Licht ist unerläβlich für das Überleben. Leben kann ohne Licht und seinen innewohnenden Farbanteilen nicht existieren. Farben spielen eine wichtige Rolle beim Heilen, Energetisieren und Harmonisieren der verschiedenen Chakren und Körperebenen.
    Lily Lovebug and the Unconquered Planet    by Trevor Ripley
    Price: $2.99 USD. 49410 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on June 2, 2012. .
    Meet Lily, a 10 year old tomboy. She is not like other girls; she is special! Commanding a spaceship, crewed by a host of amazing creatures; speeding through six universes and making friends with giant spiders; leading the biggest army ever known into battle with an evil alien race ruled by the gruesome Queen Revolta Gressla.
    Out of the Woods    by Colin Smith
    Price: $4.25 USD. 62030 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on May 28, 2012. .
    Jamie has a long history of contact with mental health services; he almost certainly has a personality disorder. Once again, he has hit rock bottom and aims to end his suffering in his local woods at first light. He has a plan, but what he couldn’t have imagined is a dawn encounter that would prove to be a trigger for unusual changes in his life.
    Undreamed Shores    by Mark Patton
    Price: $4.89 USD. 124550 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on May 20, 2012. .
    2400 BC. The dawn of the Bronze Age. The era of Stonehenge. Swept off course by the tides at the end of his first trading voyage, Amzai is washed up on the shores of an unknown land. As he recovers, he finds Nanti, a young woman, caring for him. As the summer ends, Amzai and Nanti embark on an amazing journey. Undreamed Shores is a historical novel full of adventure and discovery.
    Voices    by David Robinson
    Price: $4.99 USD. 110170 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on May 5, 2012. .
    Chris Deacon: a man who survived the horror of a bomb attack only to learn he has been robbed of the ability to speak. A man plagued by strange phantoms; a man who hears Voices in his head. You can't escape what is in your head.
    Once Removed    by KB Walker
    Price: $4.89 USD. 71680 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 30, 2012. .
    Suspecting self-harm, newly qualified teacher, Abriella Garside, risks everything for a troubled pupil. An incident with a craft knife and unexplained injuries are not enough to secure help for the girl. Unsure whether Beth is being bullied or has problems at home, Abby tries to win her trust and the two begin a friendship. But has the teacher gone too far?
    Playing on Cotton Clouds    by Michela O'Brien
    Price: $3.49 USD. 89060 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 21, 2012. .
    (4.00)
    When arty Livy falls for her sister’s boyfriend, she knows her dreams are unlikely to come true… Sensitive Seth thinks he has hit the jackpot when the girl of his dreams finally looks his way… While laidback Aidan is every girl’s hero. As the friends grow up, they discover life rarely turns out the way you imagined it at fifteen.
    Spooking    by Gill James
    Price: $2.99 USD. 40030 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 9, 2012. .
    Amanda is the love of Tom’s life. After an argument, Tom crashes his car and wakes up in an unfamiliar place. Amanda is out of reach. Then he meets Marcus, who has more experience in the areas that now matter. Tom accepts his help, but Marcus has his own concerns, and eventually Tom is alone again. How can Tom let Amanda known how much he loves her? Does she feel the same way?
    The Break-Up Test    by Rose McClelland
    Price: $2.99 USD. 72870 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on April 1, 2012. .
    Meet Amy, Beth and Sarah. All intelligent women with one thing in common – a bad taste in men! Then Jamie comes along with his Break-Up Test and turns their lives upside down.
    Swallow the Swell    by pending author
    Price: $4.19 USD. 72950 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on March 21, 2012. .
    Meet Keddy Flett, a beer-bellied twenty-six year old man who needs change in his life. Desperately. And so, with more neuroses than Woody Allen to his disadvantage, Keddy and his Chinese girlfriend Poppy Lin flee Sydney, Australia, in favour of South America. Swallow the Swell invites you to hitch a ride in the distorted, sarcastic and hilarious crevasses of Keddy’s brain.
    The Dragon Ring    by Maggie Secara
    Price: $4.99 USD. 108010 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on March 6, 2012. .
    (5.00)
    Reality TV host Ben Harper has a problem: he owes the king of Faerie a favor. So now he has to track down the three parts of a Viking arm-ring, and return them to their place in time. The Dragon Ring, the first in the Harper Errant series, is a time travelling epic adventure which takes you to Old England, and beyond.
    Bad Moon Rising    by Frances di Plino
    Price: $4.29 USD. 83480 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on March 3, 2012. .
    *** SEMI-FINALIST in the KINDLE BOOK REVIEW 2012 competition *** One more soul is safe Brought up believing sex is the devil’s work, a killer only finds release once he has saved his victims’ souls. Abiding by his vision, he marks them as his. A gift to guide his chosen ones on the rightful path to redemption.
    Righteous Exposure    by Mandy James
    Price: $2.99 USD. 94140 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on February 16, 2012. .
    Revenge, retribution and redemption. Doctor Alita Ramirez has achieved hard won goals, despite her humble beginnings from a poor Hispanic neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas. When she by chance discovers the truth about her past, she is driven to take drastic action. Alita is prepared to jeopardize everything, even her life, to expose the hypocrisy and cruelty of one man – Robson Cutter.
    The Filey Connection    by David Robinson
    Price: $1.20 USD. 68970 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on February 15, 2012. .
    It’s summertime, and the Sanford 3rd Age Club are living it up in the seaside town of Filey. But the hot months don’t pass without problems for amateur sleuth, Joe Murray. Was Nicola Leach’s death an accident or deliberate? Did Eddie Dobson fall into the sea or did he jump? What’s going on behind the innocent façade – and closed doors – of the Beachside Hotel? And who raided Joe’s room?
    Dark Deceit    by Cathie Dunn
    Price: $3.99 USD. 70670 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 28, 2012. .
    On his return from battle, Geoffrey de Mortagne assists a dying knight caught in an ambush. Promising to look after the knight’s daughter, Geoffrey stays at her manor, investigating the murder. Her life in danger and her inheritance at stake, Alleyne de Bellac must decide whether to trust a stranger or a friend. Dark Deceit weaves a tale of murder, changing loyalties, broken vows, and hope.
    Tracy's Hot Mail    by T A Belshaw
    Price: $2.99 USD. 22310 words. Published by Crooked Cat publishing  on January 16, 2012. .
    Tracy's the new girl in the office. A sassy nineteen year old with an eye for cloned fashion and an ear for the latest gossip, she reveals all in a series of emails to her friend, Emma. Behind Tracy’s wide eyed innocence and reassuring smile is a muck spreader of the highest calibre. No secret is safe. “Hilariously written. I can’t fault this book...” Rose McClelland, Judging Covers


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