We are heading towards the end of the year and, in time-honored fashion, I thought I’d take stock of the past 12 months. The first thing that should be said is that outside the giddy world of writing, we have been living through pretty nasty times. Wars and violence perpetuate across our planet, not least
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Hi I feel as though I spend a fair amount of time apologising for not posting as often as I would like. Then I provide explanations relating to ill health and personal/family matters. Well, today is no different. Only this time I shall bypass the reasons why and just say sorry. In the meantime, let
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Today, I want to let you know that The Bowery Slugger has now got an audiobook version. It is available now and costs only $4.99 ( or an equivalent amount in your local currency). The audiobook is the first in the series of seven following the life of Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen from the 1910s
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I am pleased to announce that I have launched my first audiobook of The Bowery Belle. It is a novella prequel to the Alex Cohen series in audio form, which is also available as an ebook. Feel free to grab a copy. As a reminder, Alex Cohen is a Jewish gangster and we follow his
This is a quick note to say thank you to anyone and everyone who has supported me with my writing. I am pleased as punch to report that I have just sold my 5000th book. Count the zeros. Five thousand copies of my work have been purchased by kind souls around the world. Nice. Leo
I thought I’d offer you a quick update on what I’m up to. First, and foremost, I am on my first vacation away from home since the start of the first Covid lockdown. I am writing this by Lake Garda in northern Italy. I mention this just to explain why I am so chilled out
As I’ve been finishing off the editing of I Confess, I have found myself facing a simple question. The book is set in the 1950s when the average man had a very different attitude to the women he met compared to the average member of the modern liberal metropolitan wokerati of today. So to what
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Like the arrival of the largest baby elephant, the gestation of I Confess has, I must admit, taken an inhuman amount of time. Well, the good news is that it is going to hit the streets in a matter of a handful of weeks. The manuscript has finally arrived at my editor and then when
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I am pleased to tell you that I have completed the first draft of the first novel in my new private detective series, Jake Adkins PI. The novel is called I Confess and you should expect it to hit the streets in April. It is set in Los Angeles 1953 and follows Jake’s attempt to
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I should have run this post at the beginning of September, but the simple truth is that I forgot to. There is a tradition (reaching back two books) that I announce the start with a numerical image. Well, traditions are important and here is my formal acknowledgement that I Confess is my fourteenth full-length novel
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