BOOKS NEWS EVENTS ABOUT Head of Zeus Awarded CWA Publisher of the Year 2021 BUY £0.99 BUY £18.99 BUY £18.99 BUY £18.99 The CWA Daggers are the premier literary crime-writing awards in the United Kingdom and on Thursday 1st July Head of Zeus was awarded 'Publisher of the Year' during the Daggers Live awards ceremony. This prestigious Dagger was inaugurated in 2019, the first new Dagger for a decade. Maxim Jakubowski, Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, said 'The Best Crime and Mystery Publisher of the Year Dagger, which celebrates publishers and imprints demonstrating excellence and diversity in crime writing, goes to the independent publisher, Head of Zeus. Established in 2012, Head of Zeus went from start-up to a multi-million-pound business and positioned itself at the forefront of the eBook revolution. Maxim added that, “These awards testify to the wealth of great books and diversity within the crime genre. The Daggers are assuredly the best and most accurate reflection of what’s happening on the crime and mystery writing front, with all judges independent of the CWA and renewed on a regular basis.” On being awarded the prize, Head of Zeus' fiction publishing director Laura Palmer said ' Crime fiction has been at the heart of Head of Zeus ever since we launched the company back in 2012. Two of our earliest acquisitions were Lesley Thomson's The Detective's Daughter, and Graham Masterton's White Bones. Both rode the ebook wave, selling nearly a million copies between them and dominating the ebook charts for several months. Those two books launched two successful careers, and I'm proud to say that both authors, nine years later, are still published by Head of Zeus. Over the years, our crime publishing became less focused on quick digital wins, and more on building lasting success across as many formats as possible: our ethos was to invest in authors whose writing we love; publish in all formats; and keep the faith with our authors, even if they didn't take off right away. So I was thrilled that the CWA judges praised both our wide-ranging list, and our commitment to publishing "rising stars and midlist authors with excellence". Midlist can be a dirty word in the industry, but I think it speaks to a type of sustainable, slow-build publishing which is to be celebrated in our fast-paced, fickle world. So here's to HoZ, here's to the CWA, and here's to the midlist! I'll be celebrating this weekend, and I hope our authors will too.' OTHER BOOKS YOU MIGHT LIKE Subscribe to our newsletter! Email Address * SUBSCRIBE WE ARE HOZ Head of Zeus opened for business on 3 January 2012 and we published our first books six months later. In 2015 we won Digital Publisher of the Year and in 2017 we won Independent Publisher of the Year. If you want to know why we are called Head of Zeus, enquire here. CONTACT US 5-8 Hardwick Street 1st Floor East London EC1R 4RG +44 207 253 5557 Registered number: 7769235 VAT number: GB122496619 INFORMATION About HoZ Press Enquiries Sales Enquiries Rights Enquiries Work With Us AI Generator PR Generator Catalogue Generator CATALOGUES Spring 2022 Autumn 2021 Spring 2021 Autumn 2020 Spring 2020 Autumn 2019 Spring 2019 Autumn 2018 Spring 2018 Autumn 2017 Spring 2017 Autumn 2016 Spring 2016 Autumn 2015 Spring 2015 Autumn 2014 Spring 2014 Autumn 2013 Spring 2013 2012 LINKS HoZ on Facebook HoZ on Twitter HoZ on YouTube HoZ on Instagram HoZ on Bookshop.org Head of Zeus © 2021 Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy