I can write stories. I can’t make people read them. If I’m lucky, someone might publish them. All of a sudden there are books with my name on the cover. But I can’t make people buy my books. No more than I can stop other people pirating them. I can’t make supermarkets stock them. Or …
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The hard back edition of my stand-alone dystopian thriller, PSYCHOTOPIA, is currently just £5.87 on amazon.co.uk. Or it was the last time I looked. These things change quickly, I know. Algorithms and all that. Anyhow, it’s a bargain. The book is also available on kindle if you prefer. This is the book about which best-selling …
So far I’ve written, and published, 11 novels. Today, for some reason, I arranged them in order of writing: Taking Comfort, A Gentle Axe, A Vengeful Longing, A Razor Wrapped In Silk, The Cleansing Flames, Summon Up The Blood, The Mannequin House, The Dark Palace, The Red Hand of Fury, Psychotopia, The White Feather Killer. …
I was clearing some space on my ‘vanity shelf’ (thanks to Mike Stotter of Shots Mag for that term). I noticed in particular that I had quite a lot of copies of the hardback of the American edition of A Vengeful Longing. So I ran a little giveaway on twitter. The books got nabbed pretty …
Few people will ever see the body of someone who has been murdered. It’s possibly only the crime writers among us for whom this is a regrettable omission. The moment when your detective confronts the victim for the first time is, I think, one of the hardest to write. And sometimes I can’t help thinking …