Figures Prove Online Author Adam’s Got Loads Of Readers
by Ruth Aiken
An award-winning author is celebrating after notching up more than 25,000 downloads of his e-books.
Adam Maxwell, from Newbiggin, specialises in short stories and so-called flash fiction.
The four e-books he has produced so far have been downloaded worldwide by thousands of readers.
The 34-year-old has been selling stories online since 2007, beginning with a podcast featuring readings of his fiction put out through iTunes and his own website.
He went on to win a prize for best podcast at the 2008 North East Digital Awards run by regional development agency One North East.
Adam, also a web designer, said: “I started writing stories when I was at Sunderland University, although I didn’t really start to take them seriously until 2000.
“I completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Northumbria University in 2003, then things really began to happen for me.”
“I got a lot of my work published on websites and in printed magazines, and in 2006 my first collection of stories, called Dial M For Monkey, was published as a paperback.”
Adam followed Dial M for Monkey with another collection of short stories, then two instalments of The Defective Detective, a comedy about a narcoleptic detective which he aims to build into an ongoing series of novellas.
Like Dial M for Monkey, The Defective Detective is also available in paperback.
Adam’s latest project Chills, Kills and Snowflakes, a Christmas-themed horror series featuring four chilling Yuletide stories, shifted more than 300 copies in the hours after being launched last week.
The book can be donwloaded via Adam’s website www.adammaxwell.com
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Originally published in the printed version of the News Post Leader
