Editors’ Notes
An occasional blog from the RedDoor team.
Authors, launches, events, publishing... whatever takes our fancy.

Coincidence of Spies by Brian Landers
Out now. February 2021. £8.99 PB As the new Dylan spy thriller is published, RedDoor Press asks: Who Are The Dylans? Thomas and Julia are a typical young couple. They meet in 1979, at work, and the Dylan series follows their lives from then on as they move in together, marry and start a...
Author Spotlight – Owen Martin
Owen Martin is the latest author to join the RedDoor list. He lives in Switzerland and has spent most of his life in executive leadership positions around the world. Managing companies in Asia, Europe and North America and extensive travel have been a necessary part of his life enabling him to see the world...
The Unwrapping of Theodora Quirke
October 2020 £8.99 PB Transworld author Caroline Smailes will publish her long-awaited Christmas novel with RedDoor Press in October 2020. The move reunites Smailes with RedDoor publisher Clare Christian who published Smailes’ critically-acclaimed debut In Search of Adam in 2007. Already described as ‘funny and touching and utterly brilliant’ by Rachael Lucas and ‘a remarkable, funny, truly...
The Darkest Hand Trilogy comes to RedDoor
Author Tarn Richardson has signed a deal with RedDoor Publishing to reissue his Darkest Hand Trilogy, a genre-busting series set during an alternate WW1, where the world is teetering on the edge of an abyss and dark forces are threatening human existence. The repackaged series (previously published by Duckworth) will be released in ebook...
One Year on from Appetite
Author Anita Cassidy looks back at the year following publication of her debut novel, Appetitw...
Finding a new way to publish
by Clare Christian, Publisher at RedDoor When I took my first steps in publishing in the summer of 1996 it coincided with an event that, now I look back on it, directly informed the job I am doing today. That event was the dissolution of the Net Book Agreement...
Me and my job: Clare
Founder and publisher Clare discusses her career so far and what life is like running an independent publisher. What are your qualifications and working background, and when and how did you take on your current job? My degree is in Zoology, so publishing wasn’t an obvious next step. But I wanted to publish popular...