I now have a kindle. I don’t yet have any books on it (apart from the Oxford American Dictionary, which it comes loaded with, and an ebook file of the novel I’m working on for editing purposes). But I do own a kindle. Most people are talking about e-book readers such as kindle as if …
I’ve reached the penultimate chapter in my twitterisation of my novel A Gentle Axe. I don’t seriously think anyone will have followed the twitterisation all the way through. As a communication channel, twitter simply doesn’t suit the transmission of an extended text. Not only is the story broken up, but if you come into it …
It’s always been a fantasy of mine to spot someone on the tube reading one of my books. I don’t think I would ever actually say anything to them. It might be just a little too odd. (Though possibly I might have to say something, just to explain why I was looking at them like …
The girl reading The Gentle Axe on the yellow line Read More »
… is the French title for my second Porfiry Petrovich novel, A Vengeful Longing in English. It was released last week, I think. Here’s the cover: And here’s the blurb from the French amazon site: L’inquiétant docteur Meyer est soupçonné d’avoir empoisonné sa femme et son fils, …
Apologies for the poor sound and video quality, but I just had to record this anyway I could. I sort of had one hand tied behind my back – well, not behind my back, pinned down to the desk. You’ll see what I mean when you watch it: