Hello, long time no blog, but I have been stupidly busy. I was down in sunny Galway for the Cuirt festival, interviewing three top authors on all things crime. Then up to even sunnier Belfast to one of my favourite shops, No Alibis, for the launch of John McAllister’s The Station Sergeant. This week, down here in damp (boo) old Dublin, I chatted to the ever lovely Louise Phillips over on writers.ie about publishing.
I also heard some ...
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This weekend I will be teaching a crime course at the wonderful Irish Writers Centre, should be fun; these events are always inspiring, if a lot of hard work for my poor pupils, many of whom have no idea how much writing they will have to do. When I finish tomorrow, I am going to join my fellow citizens at The Garden of Remembrance to honor Savita Halappanavar, and to protest her passing in such a barbaric fashion. It ...
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http://www.rte.ie/tv/theworks/player.html
If you would like to hear John Banville and me talk about our pick of authors for inclusion in Books To Die for, please click on link.
Tonight I am off to The Secret Society in the Powerscourt Town Centre, where Sliver Threads of Hope is being launched in aid of Console. Edited by my brilliant friend, Sinéad Gleeson, it’s a wonderful collection of short stories and available in shops now.
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I will be on RTE ( The Works) tonight, waffling on about my great love of Nero Wolfe as part of promotion for the very excellent Books to Die For. Do tune in if you can.
http://www.rte.ie/tv/theworks/index.html
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Hi y’all, just a speedy one from me inviting everyone to the launch of Books to Die For, if you love crime fiction you are going to love this book! So come along, it ought to be a fun night.
BOOKS TO DIE FOR is a unique, must-have anthology for any fan of the mystery genre, featuring personal essays from 120 of the world’s most beloved and renowned crime writers on ...
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Good mid-summer to you. I can’t believe it’s July already, can you?
As you can imagine, the galloping looney in the photo above takes up a considerably amount of my spare time. His name is Archer and he’s part angel, part brat. He is fifteen-weeks-old and likes chewing, running, chewing, water, chewing and annoying the cats, neither of whom are overly impressed with this new addition. They tolerate him in that ...
Continue Reading →I will be doing this next week. Plus a little Q&A. SO, who knows when the Summer starts? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Thought so.
Continue Reading →Good afternoon from a chilly Dublin. It was a glorious week of hail and wind and rain wasn’t it? No? Okay then.
April 25th I will begin teaching a six-week course on crime writing; all relevant information can be found – here. Hopefully by then I will have had time for a haircut and won’t look quite so wild and woolly.
In other news, the official release date for The Chosen, paperback version, is May 1st, which naturally means another round ...
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On Saturday 24th of March I will be heading to lovely Waterford to take part in the Waterford Writers’ Weekend.
For those interested in attending I will be holding a workshop in the Central Library from 2pm.
Details of other events can be found here.
I’ve been to this festival before and it’s always terrific fun with lovely people, should you get a chance to stop by and say hello, please do.
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Here’s an interesting artice– I think– on ebooks and price. See you guys tonight at H&F!
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