The complete and utter excitement event of the year has been and gone with the Man Booker Prize. And even though it is British competition, another American has won it – again. With the change in rules a couple of years ago, eligibility was expanded to include those not born in the UK. Put another …
Wonderful recent story covering the perils of talking about literature. This time we have an author saying genre literature is rubbish with two problems. First, the utterer is a genre writer and so she’s urinated on her own chips and second, she received a barrage of invective from genre writers noting their work wasn’t all …
Thought I’d give a quick update on what’s been going on with The Heist. Sales have kicked off well since its launch in September and the book has been downloaded over 1000 times. So an enormous than you to everyone who has been kind enough to show any interest in my work, quite frankly. And …
Today is a special day: The Heist is out on Amazon today. This is my first novel in the crime noir genre and I’m very excited about it. There are a host of different characters to follow on the seedy side of the 1967 Baltimore tracks. As ever with noir, the number of essentially good …
Howard Jacobson has written a piece on sequels in The Guardian; it’s about TV shows but speaks to novels too. He argues that due to the nature of TV funding, anyone who writes a series never knows whether it will get commissioned for a second season. In the hope it might happen, the scriptwriters tend …
There was a fab list of recommended crime novels in The Guardian so I thought I’d share it with you. I’d love to provide a personal comment on each of them but that would require me to either have read them all or just to make up something to pretend. Neither of these events has …
I’m about to start work on The Heist sequel called The Getaway. Don’t worry. That’s about as much of a spoiler as I’m planning. The second instalment of the Lagotti Family follows the two weeks after the Heist and will have another multi-character storyline. I’m looking forward to returning to some of my favourite fictional …
The Man Booker prize is heading our way with all the excitement and flurry of press coverage implied in the simple statement. As part of that buzz was this article in The Guardian which argued that prizes aren’t worth the prize money. More accurately, the argument put forward by Amit Chaudhuri is that a prize …
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