If you have a spare hour or two tomorrow, Saturday the 13th, do feel free to pop along to the Maldron Hotel. Details in the link below. I am going to read from my new novel, which I have absolutely no title for yet. Good grief.

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I am almost ashamed at how lax it gets round these parts at times.  But honest to blue blazes I have been doing very little of interest except working hard on finishing the new book ( I have no title, WHY have I no title yet?).  But happily I’m pretty close to doing just that.  I imagine two weeks from now I will be putting ‘The End’ on this particular draft and that will be that.   So until then, sorry ...

I do enjoy interesting questions.

I have not slept since Sunday ( it’s now five o’clock, Tuesday, on a warm October evening ). I am too wired for sleep just yet. I have flown, taken trains and driven miles upon miles upon miles across state lines in the good ‘ol US of A.
I learned all about bows and arrows from an amazing craftsman who goes by the name of Mike Treadway and before long found myself deep in the mountains of North Carolina, threatening ...

I have not been lazy, honestly, but rather alarmingly busy. Today ( finally) I finish the first draft of the new novel, still botheringly titleless. After which I will let it rest for a spell of about one week before attacking it with gusto and a ferocious edit.

Between now and that I will be at Elecric Picnic, waffling on Saturday about matters female with fellow bloggers from the excellent Anti-Room, and later with my colleagues on a crime ...

If you want someone to review a book author Declan Burke is your man, what he doesn’t know about crime fiction you could fit on a the back of a stamp.

Take a gander here.

Book glorious book, baked roasted and pickled!
No wait, read, just read, no cooking of books, neither culinary or mob style. Declan Hughes and I were guest on the ever supportive TV3 talking about the about the advance of Irish crime across the globe. You can catch our chit chat if you click on this little old link.

Hello there crime-fiction lovers, just a quick one to let you know I will be on TV3 with fellow author Declan Hughes tomorrow morning around 9:25 am to discuss the explosion of crime writing and crime fiction reading within our fair island. Please tune in if you get a few minutes to yourself in the morning.

(Thanks to Tony for sending me a copy of this.)

L-R we have Stuart Neville, John McAllister, T.A. Moore, me, Tony Bailie, Brian McGilloway and the delightful Ger Brennan, main man and big chief behind Requiems for the Departed.

If you’re ever up in Belfast to pop along to No Alibis, it’s a truly great independent book shop.