On April 3, 2025, Literary Titan published an interview with Nicholas Litchfield titled “Chaos and Fury.” The Q&A explores the inspiration behind his novel *When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed* and discusses themes such as obsession, power dynamics, and the interplay of fear and ambition within the story.
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In her review for Reedsy Discovery, Karen Siddall writes about When the Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed, Nicholas Litchfield’s “riveting story of a struggling Hollywood actor cast as the ‘career-making’ lead in a South American director’s upcoming action/adventure film.”
This review, originally published on April 1, 2025, is reprinted in the iReporter feature on the local news website Park Cities BubbleLife.
In a 5-star review posted on March 27, 2025, Literary Titan writes: “What I really loved is how the book swings between outrageous comedy and deeper, sometimes bleak reflection. Dominic is a washed-up actor carrying guilt, shame, and a streak of self-loathing that sneaks in unexpectedly, like when he reflects on a disturbing sexual encounter with a woman he barely knows, and it genuinely shakes him. These moments add surprising weight to a book that could’ve easily stayed surface-level chaos. And the writing pops. It’s fast, visceral, sometimes poetic, sometimes grotesque, always alive.”
American magazine Kirkus Reviews adds: “Litchfield writes with sardonic vigor.”
Yesterday, the San Diego Book Review showcased a favorable review of the latest installment in the Lowestoft Chronicle Anthology Series, titled Unfamiliar Territory. This review comes from the reputable San Diego Book Review, which is licensed by the San Francisco Book Review—a publication that first launched in 2008 and is now part of the expanding City Book Review network.
“Fans of edge-of-the-seat thrillers filled with exotic settings, non-stop action, and a cast of ambitious artistes battling fears, egos, insecurities, and daily disasters, will relish Nicholas Litchfield’s pulse-pounding novel, When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed,” writes Pam Norfolk in The Star, one of the most prominent regional newspapers in England. The Star, often known as the Sheffield Star, is a daily newspaper published in Sheffield, England, from Monday to Saturday each week. The first edition was published on 7 June 1887. Today it features a splendid review of When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed, a Lowestoft Chronicle Press title scheduled for release on April 1st.
Earlier this month, Stark House Press reissued two excellent novels by bestselling author Bruno Fischer (1908 – 1992). Fischer was an incredibly prolific writer of genre fiction during the Forties and Fifties when pulp magazines thrived.
This latest twofer includes the novels Fools Walk In, published in 1951, and So Wicked, My Love, from 1954. The essay “Fischer’s Foolish Teacher and the Wicked Redhead,” by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle, introduces the collection.
Lowestoft Chronicle Editor reviews Mark Jacobs’ Silent Light for the Colorado Review
Our latest anthology, A Place to Pause, was included in the May 15th volume of Kirkus Reviews magazine. This Kirkus edition (Volume XCII, No. 10, p. 155) is a special Summer Reads Issue.
This month, Stark House Press reissued The Accused and The Snatch, Daniels’ famed third and fourth novels, as a double-novel collection. The volume includes the scholarly essay “The Solidly Considerable Talent of Harold R. Daniels,” penned by the editor of Lowestoft Chronicle.
In recent years, Stark House Press began reprinting double-novel volumes by the late James McKimmey, a prolific writer who found success during the golden age … Read More ›