I’ve been interviewed by Barry Forshaw over on Crimetime. It’s a short interview. Won’t take you more than a minute to read. Well, maybe a couple of minutes. It all depends how fast a reader you are, I suppose. If you felt like it, you could report back how long it took you. Just a …
Nice mention for The Dark Palace in Crime Fiction Lover’s round-up of forthcoming books. “Expect brilliant period detail…” he says. Who am I to argue?
Maybe it’s because I’m a creator not a critic that I detest The Hatchet Job of The Year. That’s the award for the most scathing book review of the year, the short list for which was announced today. Apparently it’s designed to promote wit and integrity in literary journalism. Strange then that I found the …
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The Dark Palace will be my eighth published novel. My first one, Taking Comfort, came out in 2006. Since then, I have averaged a book a year, though I didn’t have a book out in 2009. I compensated by bringing two out in 2012. A book a year may seem quite prolific but I think …
I used to make trailers for every one of my books, but then I stopped. All of a sudden, I wasn’t really sure they did any good. I even worried that a bad trailer might harm a book’s chances. Also making them is incredibly time-consuming, so I thought I would be better off concentrating on …