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All the latest news, updates, thoughts, and random blog posts from Zertex Media.
Space Team: The Comic Book
It's been a while since we've had any new Space Team content to publish at Zertex, with the most recent book - Space Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa - being published way back in March 2019. September 2021 also marks the fifth anniversary of the first book's...
Space Team eBooks Go Wide
Good news for fans of comedy sci-fi who don't use Amazon - the ebook versions of Barry J. Hutchison's entire Space Team series, along with the Dan Deadman Space Detective spin-off, is now available on Apple iBooks, Google Play Books, Rakuten Kobo, Barnes & Noble...
JD Kirk’s Ahead of the Game
We're delighted to announced the release of the tenth book in JD Kirk's DCI Jack Logan series, Ahead of the Game. Set around the Well of the Seven Heads on the shores of Loch Oich, the book was published on Amazon Kindle on the 11th of February, and immediately went...
Space Team: The Award Winner
It gives us great pleasure here at Zertex Media to announce that one of our audiobooks has recently been crowned winner in the Humo(u)r category at the 2020 Independent Audiobook Awards! Space Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa - written by Barry J. Hutchison and narrated...
New Space Team Collected Edition
The fourth collected edition of books in Barry J. Hutchison's Space Team series is out now in ebook format. This edition collects the following titles: Space Team: Sting of the Mustard MinesSpace Team: Sentienced to DeathSpace Team: The Hunt for Reduk Topa Space Team:...
JD Kirk #1 Amazon Bestseller
Huge congratulations to our author, JD Kirk, whose first crime thriller, A Litter of Bones, just became the #1 bestselling book on Amazon AU. Those Australian readers have exceptional taste, we've always said so. If you haven't already checked out JD's series, you can...
DCI Jack Logan Book 4 Cover Reveal!
We're delighted to reveal the cover and title for the fourth DCI Jack Logan novel by JD Kirk. Without giving too much away at this stage, it's set in and around Glencoe near Fort William, and involves the local Mountain Rescue team. We'll say no more than that at the...
JD Kirk’s Famous Fans
It seems JD Kirk picked up some celebrity fans recently, when bestselling crime author, Ian Rankin, and TV funnyman, Phill Jupitus, dropped by the Edinburgh Bookshop and blagged a couple of copies of A Litter of Bones. We're quietly confident that Phill will look a...
Oh, what’s the point?
This morning, I have printed over twenty different versions of the same two book pages, each one incrementally different to the one before. No, I'm not having a breakdown (yet), I'm just trying to choose the perfect text size for the first print run of Space Team....
So much still to do!
Right now, things are all a bit of a whirlwind of activity as we try to get the business properly up and running. There's lots of very boring stuff going on with accountants, Companies House, banks and HMRC, plus a variety of tedious adventures with legal documents...
Zertex Media is born
Hello! I'm going to work on the assumption that you have absolutely no idea who I am, and start with an introduction. I'm Barry Hutchison (sometimes with a J. in the middle), and I've been a full-time author for around ten years. Back in 2007, I had my first books...
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