Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look? It’s a dark, twisty story about a man named Quinn And I need a job, So I want to be a paperback writer…. Paperback writer! (With apologies to the Beatles) Summon Up The Blood is …
It’s possible that every now and then someone stumbles on this blog entirely by accident. Looking for something else – I can’t begin to guess what – you find this. Me. I can only apologise. In all likelihood, you will speed-click back to google. Get the hell out of there! It’s some writer’s blog! If …
Tonight (Sunday 13 November) I’m taking part in a live web panel on crime fiction on the literary website Litopia After Dark. Also on the panel will be William Ryan, author of The Holy Thief and The Bloody Meadow, and Linda Stratmann, who writes true crime books as well as historical crime fiction. There’s a …