More and more writers are doing it. Putting their work directly out there, without the intervention of the middleman. Self-publishing through kindle. I imagine that most of the writers who choose this route are ones who have been unsuccessful in getting a conventional publisher to take them on. They’ve grown tired of waiting for the …
Adventures in e-publishing part I – INSIDE ITALY by Michael Gregorio Read More »
The Cleansing Flames download – click here to download the first chapter of my latest novel, The Cleansing Flames. It won’t cost you a penny. And if you can answer the following question (the answer to which is in the sample chapter) you could win a copy of the paperback: What is the title of …
Perhaps I shouldn’t admit this, being a crime writer. But I think I am actually enjoying Borgen even more than The Killing. And I loved The Killing. (Just to be clear, it’s the Danish The Killing I’m talking about here, not the American; I didn’t watch that, so I can’t comment.) The real heresy for …
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 …
The Bloody Meadow by William Ryan is the second of his Stalinist-era crime novels featuring Captain Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Division. The first, The Holy Thief, was my choice for Auntie Marjorie’s Christmas present on the It’s A Crime… blog. The Bloody Meadow was the book I read myself over the Christmas …