Today sees the publication of the French edition of my third Russian-set crime mystery, which has the English title of A Razor Wrapped in Silk, but is known in France as Les enfants perdus de l’Empire. I just happened to receive six complimentary copies in the post this morning. My thanks to my French publisher, …
Many thanks to Kristen for this lovely review on the We Be Reading site.
It’s always gratifying when a fellow writer says nice things about your work, particularly when it’s a writer you admire. Vanessa Gebbie is the author of two collections of short stories, Words from a Glass Bubble (2008) and Storm Warning (2010), both published by Salt. She is a very fine writer indeed so I have …
It’s well known that writers have to grapple with their demons to produce their best work. But their cats? Two years ago, I gave up my day job to concentrate on writing fulltime. If the impending solitude worried me at all, it was only because I was afraid I might enjoy it too much, like …
In honour of National Short Story Week, I’ve collated all the twisteries written so far. A round dozen: Twistery #1. The locked room was empty apart from the smell of decomposition. They ripped up the boards to find a corpse clutching a strong magnet. Solution here. Twistery #2. It looked like suicide: both hands …