Adam Croft
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Adam Croft | |
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| Born | Dunstable, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Crime, thriller, mystery |
| Notable works | Knight & Culverhouse, Kempston Hardwick mysteries |
Adam Croft is an English writer of crime fiction. He is a self-published author[1][2][3][4] and is an advocate of independent publishing.
Work
[edit]Writing
[edit]Croft has written more than twenty books, including the Knight & Culverhouse crime thrillers and Kempston Hardwick mysteries. He appeared on the USA Today bestseller list twice, with the Kempston Hardwick box set and his 2015 psychological thriller Her Last Tomorrow.[5][6] Her Last Tomorrow has sold around 150,000 units so far in the UK, around 500,00 including international sales, and is on track to sell more than £1m worth of books in 2017.[7][8] He has also had several plays published with Lazy Bee Scripts.[9]
As an advocate of self-publishing, he has often spoken out about the negative sides of traditional publishing[10] and in 2012 he denounced Sue Grafton's comments that self-publishing was disrespectful and lazy. [11]
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Bedfordshire in March 2018 "in recognition of his outstanding services to literature".[12]
In 2020, he announced he was launching a new crime series set in Rutland.[13]
Personal life
[edit]Adam Croft lives in Flitwick, Bedfordshire.[7]
Bibliography
[edit]Knight & Culverhouse
- Too Close for Comfort (2011)
- Guilty as Sin (2011)
- Jack Be Nimble (2015)
- Rough Justice (2015)
- In Too Deep (2016)
- In the Name of the Father (2016)
- With A Vengeance (2017)
- Dead & Buried (2018)
- In Plain Sight (2019)
Rutland crime series
- What Lies Beneath (2020)
- On Borrowed Time (2020)
- In Cold Blood (28 May 2021)
- Kiss of Death (2022)
- Moment of Truth (2022)
Kempston Hardwick Mysteries
- Exit Stage Left (2011)
- The Westerlea House Mystery (2013)
- Death Under the Sun (2014)
- The Thirteenth Room (2015)
- The Wrong Man (2019)
Psychological thrillers
- Her Last Tomorrow (2015)
- Only the Truth (2017)
- In Her Image (2017)
- Tell Me I'm Wrong (2018)
- The Perfect Lie (2019)
- Closer To You (2020)
Sam Barker
- Absolution (2019)
- Betrayal (2020)
Short stories
- Gone (2016)
- Love You To Death (2017)
- The Harder They Fall (2017)
Plays
- Sleeping Dogs (2014)
- Curtain Up! (2015)
- Home, Sweet Home (2015)
References
[edit]- ^ "'Biggest-selling' self-published book of 2016 lands Amazon deal | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "Adam Croft: Books and Tips from a Bestseller | The Reading Lists". The Reading Lists. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ Pulham, Alice (26 January 2019). "Meet this independent author who at one point was outselling JK Rowling". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ Nachiappan, Arthi. "Authors write their own happy ending with success of self‑published ebooks". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Knight & Culverhouse Box Set". USA TODAY. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "Her Last Tomorrow". USA TODAY. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ a b Flood, Alison (2 June 2016). "From paying the bills, to £2,000 a day: making a killing from self-publishing". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "'Biggest-selling' self-published book of 2016 lands Amazon deal | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "'Adam Croft's author page| Lazy Bee Scripts". www.lazybeescripts.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ "How to succeed as a self-published author – as it happened". The Guardian. 13 June 2016. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ Flood, Alison (29 August 2012). "Self-published authors react with anger to 'laziness' charge". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
- ^ "Graduations continue at Bedfordshire - beds.ac.uk | University of Bedfordshire".
- ^ "Rutland is at the centre of crime fiction series". Stamford Mercury. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.