Things are going to be a tad quiet around here at Storm Books as we are taking a bit of a break for a while. Thanks for all your support. Digital publishing is a tricky old thing and our sales are not quite keeping pace with our outgoings so we’re looking into Plan B by going into hibernation for a few years!  In 2017 we hope to achieve crowdfunding to re-launch. Cross your fingers for us as good writing is a rare and precious thing. Keep reading. Words have power to change your day and even your life.

Well, it’s downhill until Christmas weather-wise, but uphill as far as new work and new features here at Storm Books are concerned. The latest Hothouse Course is underway soon (new student work appearing then) and coming up in the next period is our brand new Sound Cloud page featuring audio works for FREE. Yes we’re so generous we’ll be giving our readers FREE access to a range of pieces: including Phil Ryan’s September in Rome, Tom Hollingsworth’s The Dice of Life and many other pieces of scintillating story wonderfulness. The audio files are ideal for phones and laptops/tablets/ipads. So you can carry your own personal Storm Books story teller with you wherever you go. Don’t forget to join us on Facebook or you might miss out. And please share the site with everyone you know. Why not cut and paste a link from one of our stories and email it to a friend as a gift. Share good things.

Autumn and its seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness are upon us. Summer seemed to simply fade, didn’t it? And now we have the prospect of new stories and new novels to sustain us as we roll downhill to the end of the year. The Hothouse course is on this month: An absolute essential for any aspiring writer. It is the basics plus so much more from Charles Shaar Murray, a writer of such history and import that no-one should pass up the chance. The newest Phil Ryan novel DA Copperthwaite, A Life will be available soon so look out for free sample chapters coming soon. And a new writer Ajit Patel joins us (from The Houthouse Course). He will delight you with his dreaming story Out of this World. So apart from wishing you the seasons best, keep telling the world we are here – follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Back to the computer now. Editing awaits.

Yes the heat is on and it’s time to stay outside and breathe that fresh air. And it’s time to take a selection of our Kindle novels with you to while away the hours. The Kindle Paperwhite is fantastic in outside sunny conditions. We have thrillers, short stories, comic novels and soon three new titles ideal for engaging the mind. New FREE stories regularly appear on our front page (and a free audio book too) Please don’t forget to sign up to our Facebook for your hilarious weekly dose of our Overheard in the world conversations. And tell your Facebook friends to join us too. Never has the world heard such strange things that folk come out with! Laugh out loud with us. And for those thoughtful moment our Twitter feed has sayings to share with your friends and family. Coming soon a new video from one of our writers telling you how it is for them. Finally: Don’t forget the sunscreen.

Hi Everyone.

It’s a blazing hot July, perfect for lazing around and reading Phil Ryan’s thriller The Divine Engineer just out on Kindle. So why not head over to Amazon to purchase your copy. It’s the ideal holiday read as its fast paced and intriguing, just the thing to while away the hours. More writer videos appearing this week, this time from Steve Jenkins the music supremo behind literally thousands of hit records. Don’t forget to watch out for a new piece from Tom Hollingsworth coming very soon and a brand new writer who we’ll announce in August. A big thank you for all of you who follow our Storm comments now and we have some lovely ones that you will really want to share around. Coming soon: our first Storm Books Short Story competition TBA. You’ll find some great examples here on the front page through August and September. So it’s time to get your creative hat on. Enjoy the weather.

Hello everyone.

June is here in the UK heralding the start of summer. And we have lots to entertain you on your kindle or your ipad/tablet/phone. Dave Fords laugh out loud novella Vanilla Dog is now available to download as a Kindle. There’s a new Phil Ryan story now up to be followed by a lovely piece from Tom Hollingsworth and look out for a clever Charles Shaar Murray real world advice piece. Don’t forget to check out Charles new video on our YouTube page. Keep following our Twitter novel and feel free to tweet in. Marva Longmore’s debut novel ‘Toren Williams’ is nearing the final edit stage and we’re about to welcome a new face to the site so do watch this space. John Bird’s been busy on his compelling new book on the First World War and we’re hoping to give you a sneak preview soon. It’s going to set out some amazing conclusions. Not just one for historians! We hope you’ll tell everyone about us and as an incentive to the reader that recommends the most friends to our Facebook there’s a bundle of Storm goodies being lined up. Writers write to be read. So please spread the word.

Thanks for stopping by.

London. June 2014.

Well it’s a month after our launch and we’d like to give a big thank all our site visitors. It’s been an exciting time with the launch of our Twitter Novel and our YouTube channel. We’ll be presenting new stories and books every month and we hope you’ll be downloading Kindles from our growing collection. Coming soon to our collection are The Divine Engineer by Phil Ryan and Vanilla Dog by Dave Ford. Plus there’ll be new shorter pieces to read for free appearing right here on the front page from Anna Chen and Charles Shaar Murray. For any writer finding an audience is always the hardest part and we’re delighted that so many people have dropped by for a read. Our writers section will be growing very slowly over the next year and we are very selective on who joins us. It’s important  to us that what you find here is of the highest quality. We’d love you to follow us on Twitter and join us on Facebook. Thanks for stopping by.

London, May 2014