'The Searching Glance' number 10 in Salt's 'hit parade'!

I can't quite believe this but it says on Salt's website....

Top 10 Bestsellers
John Siddique, Recital
Richard Marggraf Turley, Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair
Jasmine Donahaye, Self-Portrait as Ruth
Elizabeth Baines, Too Many Magpies
Vanessa Gebbie (ed.), Short Circuit
Andrew Philip, The Ambulance Box
Brian Henry, Wings Without Birds
Shaindel Beers, A Brief History of Time
Wena Poon, Lions in Winter
Linda Cracknell, The Searching Glance

The Searching Glance comes out in paperback

Delighted that my short story collection, The Searching Glance is issued in a new paperback edition from Salt Publishing on 15th November, and available immediately direct from their website, at the great price of £7.99.

Save the Small Publisher (and get 33% off!)

SALT, publisher of my most recent short story collection, The Searching Glance, have been in financial difficulties. Close to the brink, they are clawing their way back through the 'Just One Book' campaign. Readers of short literary fiction and poetry are invited to show their support for small independent publishers of these non-commercial genres by buying one book from Salt's titles. The impact in the press and in £££ has been startling, a testimony to the respect SALT have gained for their niche.

So, just a reminder that buying a copy of The Searching Glance from SALT here will be contributing to the campaign... and there's 33% off until the end of August.

Northwords Now

Issue 9 of Northwords Now, the free literary magazine of the North, has arrived, and as usual it's brimming with new writing, reviews, features. It's made available in ever-increasing areas of Scotland - and inviting contributions 'from any corner of the planet'. This edition has an interview with Australian poet Les Murray on his recent visit to Ullapool, and a feature on Lotte Glob's new book Floating Stones documenting the launch of her ceramic 'stones' into 111 lochans around the Highlands, published in beautiful art-book style by my own dear neighbours, The Watermill of Aberfeldy. I was delighted when my story And the sky was full of crows was published by NN in 2006. It has since found a second home in my collection The Searching Glance which is reviewed in Issue 9, and includes the kind words: '...Linda Cracknell has the gift of making you see a whole picture with just the exact right handful of words'.