Amy Myers, one of the excellent people at SHOTS, the crime and thriller ezine, was kind enough to interview me about The English Monster and writing in general, and they were also happy for me to cross-post it here. I thought the questions were very astute, and some of my answers didn’t entirely reek either, so [...]
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A Happy New Year slice of self-publicity
It’s the evening of January 1 2012 and I’m sitting on my sofa after a cracking new episode of Sherlock. Right now I’ve got that familiar doom-laden hangover which, I trust, will be replaced by the usual sense of invincibility tomorrow morning when I wake with a clear head. There’s been lots of exciting stuff [...]
A bloody anniversary, tonight at midnight
Tonight, at around midnight, will be the 200th anniversary of something particularly nasty which I’ve been living inside for a few years now. Either just before midnight on 7th December 1811, or just after midnight (so on 8th December), Timothy Marr, a sailor-turned-linen draper, and his young family were wiped out in an attack so [...]
Proofs: a dress rehearsal for publication
The proofs for The English Monster started to go out a few weeks ago. What an odd moment that is. For the first time your book is being read by significant numbers of people at once. Some of them you know, many of them you don’t. Your publisher and your agent have come up with a [...]
