Delighted to see a great review of Summon Up The Blood by Emily Melton in Booklist. She starts it with possibly my best-ever review quote: “Mesmerizing, repellent, bizarre, intelligent, dark, provocative…” Repellent! I’m so pleased – inordinately pleased – with that “repellent”. The full review is here.
I started on my adventures in e-publishing when my friends Michael Gregorio (it’s two people writing as one) published their collection of satirical pieces on the crisis in Italy, called INSIDE ITALY. I was intrigued and thought I would have a go myself. I put out a collection of short stories, called The Bridge That …
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Publishers Weekly (no apostrophe, apparently) in the States have given Summon Up The Blood a starred review, calling it “this superior whodunit”. The reviewer also says “his hero’s wrestling with his own inner demons makes a nice change from the typically unreflective historical detective”. Is that really the case with most historical detectives? What do …
I’d like to welcome Shana Raywood, one of the founders of Immortal Ink Publishing, a small e-book publisher which put out its first title, The Forever Girl by Shana herself, writing under the pseudonym of Rebecca Hamilton. Since then, four more titles have made it on to the Immortal Ink list, Four inthe Morning by …
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This is me writing the ending to my new Silas Quinn novel. There’s a lot of backspace deleting and I do some weird thing with my side burn. I don’t do a happy dance at the end. But if you look closely you can just about see me give a minuscule nod. Other than that …