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Radgepacket - Tales From The Inner Cities Boxset 2 (Vol. 4-6)

Radgepacket - Tales From The Inner Cities Boxset 2 (Vol. 4-6)

Darren Sant
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There are over SIXTY short stories in here for your delectation. In this here tome you’ll find stories of bad men and mad men with a little touch of S & M. There’s tales of hooligans and miners, strange vicars and eyes with shiners. Fishing of a fashion, smackheads practising their passion and a pickpocket with a way of cashing in. There’s also stuff about bus stops and loony cops, loan sharks and car parks, big fat blokes, dodgy smokes, lines of coke and some appalling jokes. As we look back over issues four to six of the mighty ‘Radgepacket’ series. But before you start, here’s a bit of our history – just for you.

Way back in the mists of time, before e-readers were invented and everyone with a blog was a ‘publisher’, a group of people from the North East of England who weren't that enthralled by reading the memoirs of some 'reality show' nonentity came together...in a pub!

We wondered aloud where the real writers were; the people we knew on the estate who loved the likes of Irvine Welsh and Alan Sillitoe and scribbled stuff around their jobs and household responsibilities. Then, after bitching for a bit, we actually decided to get off our arses and do something about it. Naming our venture ‘Byker Books’ we decided to educate the world about working class writers. That was our main motivation, well that and girls…publishers get groupies don’t they…don’t they?

We’ve technically been around since November ’08 which is when we published our first book but our website went live a few months before that with various short stories we'd strong-armed people into giving us. The whole idea behind Byker Books was to give an outlet to writers of British fiction – I don’t know about you but I can’t relate to tales of boy wizards, ancient codes hidden in paintings or super-gorgeous teenage vampires. So we came up with a plan to put together short story collections that mixed new writers and more established authors which we achieved with the ‘Radgepacket’ series – now up to volume six.

Fast forward to now and the great Kindle revolution has happened. This suits our aim of promoting and exposing new authors down to the ground. It has allowed us to publish edgier and more niche fiction without taking great financial risks and also allows us to promote books via the Amazon 'freebie' option.

To date we've published eleven paperbacks, around thirty kindle books, have a BAFTA nominee in our stable and more importantly have published over one hundred authors via our Radgepacket series. We're proud of what we've achieved from a standing start but prouder still of knowing that over the years we've encouraged and cajoled some people into print who didn't think they were good enough – there are at least four authors walking around today who became novelists because of our direct intervention. We've got drunk with our authors, learnt them new swear words and, with varying degrees of success, done our absolute level best to introduce them to the world.

And, despite being the mouthy little upstarts with our snotty noses pressed against the window of the big publishing party we're not invited to, we’ll keep on keeping on because we're Byker Books and this is what we do.

Happy reading!
Language
English
Pages
392
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Byker Books
Release
February 19, 2014

Radgepacket - Tales From The Inner Cities Boxset 2 (Vol. 4-6)

Darren Sant
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
There are over SIXTY short stories in here for your delectation. In this here tome you’ll find stories of bad men and mad men with a little touch of S & M. There’s tales of hooligans and miners, strange vicars and eyes with shiners. Fishing of a fashion, smackheads practising their passion and a pickpocket with a way of cashing in. There’s also stuff about bus stops and loony cops, loan sharks and car parks, big fat blokes, dodgy smokes, lines of coke and some appalling jokes. As we look back over issues four to six of the mighty ‘Radgepacket’ series. But before you start, here’s a bit of our history – just for you.

Way back in the mists of time, before e-readers were invented and everyone with a blog was a ‘publisher’, a group of people from the North East of England who weren't that enthralled by reading the memoirs of some 'reality show' nonentity came together...in a pub!

We wondered aloud where the real writers were; the people we knew on the estate who loved the likes of Irvine Welsh and Alan Sillitoe and scribbled stuff around their jobs and household responsibilities. Then, after bitching for a bit, we actually decided to get off our arses and do something about it. Naming our venture ‘Byker Books’ we decided to educate the world about working class writers. That was our main motivation, well that and girls…publishers get groupies don’t they…don’t they?

We’ve technically been around since November ’08 which is when we published our first book but our website went live a few months before that with various short stories we'd strong-armed people into giving us. The whole idea behind Byker Books was to give an outlet to writers of British fiction – I don’t know about you but I can’t relate to tales of boy wizards, ancient codes hidden in paintings or super-gorgeous teenage vampires. So we came up with a plan to put together short story collections that mixed new writers and more established authors which we achieved with the ‘Radgepacket’ series – now up to volume six.

Fast forward to now and the great Kindle revolution has happened. This suits our aim of promoting and exposing new authors down to the ground. It has allowed us to publish edgier and more niche fiction without taking great financial risks and also allows us to promote books via the Amazon 'freebie' option.

To date we've published eleven paperbacks, around thirty kindle books, have a BAFTA nominee in our stable and more importantly have published over one hundred authors via our Radgepacket series. We're proud of what we've achieved from a standing start but prouder still of knowing that over the years we've encouraged and cajoled some people into print who didn't think they were good enough – there are at least four authors walking around today who became novelists because of our direct intervention. We've got drunk with our authors, learnt them new swear words and, with varying degrees of success, done our absolute level best to introduce them to the world.

And, despite being the mouthy little upstarts with our snotty noses pressed against the window of the big publishing party we're not invited to, we’ll keep on keeping on because we're Byker Books and this is what we do.

Happy reading!
Language
English
Pages
392
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Byker Books
Release
February 19, 2014

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