I’m doing a couple of events next month. Or gigs, as we like to call them in the rock’n’roll world that is historical crime fiction. The first is on Sunday October 13 at St Mark’s Church Hall as part of the Wood Green Literary Festival. I’ll be chairing a panel on London in crime fiction (or …
… is up on Amazon. And it says: April, 1914. Against his better judgement, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn is attending the premiere of the new motion picture by notorious Austrian film-maker Konrad Waechter. But the glamorous event is interrupted by the piercing screams of a young woman in the street outside. She has been viciously …
Very excited to receive a copy of the CD/DVD of When the Flame Dies. So excited I can’t write in proper sentences any more. Not sure when it comes out officially yet. Later this year some time. Still too excited to manage a proper sentence. Either that or I’m being a bit lazy.
A couple of days ago I got an email from someone offering to pay me money to write blog posts for commercial products. The blog posts would appear on my blog, here, so effectively I would be being paid to endorse stuff ‘within my vertical’, as the email sender put it. I can only guess …
According to recent research carried out at University College London, the way a musician appears – the visual impression they make – may be more important than how they sound. Subjects were asked to rate musicians taking part in competitions based on (a) a silent video of their performance, (b) video with audio, (c) just …