I’ve just been contacted by Lee Jackson – one of my North London Historical Crime buddies – who tells me that he is publishing his latest novel The Diary of a Murder online, for free. Lee explains his reasons for doing so here and in more detail here, via his website Victorian London. (Incidentally an …
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I heard about it through twitter: Kirkus Reviews is to fold, along with Editor & Publisher. The story is here. Kirkus is an institution, and writers with books coming out in America await their verdict with trepidation. They are, or were, notoriously harsh and hard to please. They were snooty about The Gentle Axe, but …
My son Luke is singing with his school choir on the new Ray Davies and Chrissie Hynde Christmas single, “Postcard From London”. It’s a superior Christmas single, full of nostalgia, scarves and London buses. A bit sentimental, maybe, but hey – it’s Christmas! So, let’s get it to number one, I say. You can download …
I’ve been neglecting the bloody blog recently, though if anyone’s noticed I’ll be amazed. The fact is I’m trying to get somewhere with my new book, which will be the last in my quartet of Porfiry Petrovich novels. I originally set myself a fairly steep daily target of 1,000 words. But I figured that if …