UK FICTION MARKET
Near the knuckle
Tina Jackson
Close To The Bone Publishing is a straight-talking grassroots UK publisher.
‘Originally we set out as a crime noir scene, but tend to diversify our genres,’ said publisher Craig Douglas. ‘We publish novels and Chapbooks too, which are available on the Amazon platform.
Craig started Close To The Bone from his own love of writing. ‘Writing was cathartic and healing, it got me where I needed to be. I’d been away from this for over a decade whilst serving in the British Army. After leaving the Army I began to code work into Kindle, and it evolved from there. With the help of a colleague Close To The Bone was born in the November of 2011. It was wholly crime noir fiction. We changed our name to Near To The Knuckle, and only changed it back a few years ago.’