This morning, I blew my nose, and – being one of those people who checks – saw that the contents were blue-black. Ah, yes: A trip to London last night. The reason? Caroline Smailes, a British author published by The Friday Project, had launched her latest book, Black Boxes, at the Borders in Oxford Street, [...]
It’s September, it’s getting chilly, and there’s a meme going around. This one comes from the nose of Aliya Whiteley, author of Light Reading (and much more). The the Vampire Lestat who infected her is David Isaak. On his blog, he asked, ‘What is in your unpublishable pile?”
Phew, that was close. Paul Graham Raven has gone and written a review of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992). My own review of the same book has been rolling around my head for the past few months and, now that Paul been there and done it, I can forget about and divert my energies towards [...]
If anybody from the digital advertising agency i-level wants to send me – as an upstanding, mixin’-it-up-bloggishly-since 2003 digi-man – a free Sony ebook reader, you are most bloody welcome.
You may – or may not – have heard of Jo Nesbø. He’s a Norwegian thriller writer with a series of noirish contemporary novels featuring Harry Hole, an alcoholic detective, under his belt. Jo’s Random House publicity ninjette contacted me a few days back to ask if I’d like some free copies of his latest [...]
Well, alright, not the BBC. Phoenix FM, actually. M’colleague Roger (of his plog) has released the audio of a radio interview from a few days back. You can listen to it here. In it, he discusses the genesis of his St Petersburg novels1 and his fondness for Dostoyevsky. 1 Is everybody writing bloody St Petersburg [...]
Regular readers of this blog – hey Dad; hey Google robot – will wonder where my fingers have been for the past few weeks. Not updating this blog much, that’s for sure. No; I’ve been completing the first draft of the third Saskia Brandt novel.
Via Lonely Sandwich, here’s a post on a cute little trailer for a film that was never intended to be made as a feature: ‘Lucky Star’. I remember watching this in the cinema a few years back and clocking Michael Mann after the second or third cut. Extraordinary that Mercedes would pay for this as [...]