Bear Alley Books has been active since 2011, publishing a variety of projects, from comic strips to reprinted novels and story collections, from indexes to autobiographies. Publisher Steve Holland has been a writer and editor for over thirty years and has published 1,600 features, interviews, news columns and obituaries in publications around the world. He wrote his first book aged 20 and has since written, co-written, edited or co-edited over 100 books. These have included the Anthony Award nominated The Mushroom Jungle and The Trials of Hank Janson, which was a runner-up for the Silver Daggar Award of the Crime Writers' Association. His Bear Alley blog [https://bearalley.blogspot.com/] has been running for fifteen years.