DCI Jericho in Black & White

Added on 05 December 2012

Back in the days before Blasted Heath, I started developing a plan for what to do post-Barney Thomson. Publisher-less and agent-less I decided I needed something bold and dramatic and testicle-grabbing. And then when I couldn't think of anything along those lines, I just thought of something th...

Movie Update for THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON

Added on 04 December 2012

So, this is the text of a piece that appeared in the Daily Record yesterday: HOLLYWOOD star Robert Carlyle is set to make his debut as a director with a film about a Glasgow killer. The Scottish actor insists the time is finally right, after more than 20 years in front of the camera, to make his ow...

World Gasps at Extraordinary New Barney Thomson Cover Scheme

Added on 26 October 2012

The Barney Thomson series, widely recognised as the world's premier collection of barbershop death junky novels, has an all-new, $1.75million digital cover scheme, bringing it into line with the latest in avant garde, front-of-book, publishing techniques. While renegade Barney Thomson auth...

Lost In Juarez Cover Re-actualisation

Added on 23 September 2012

With Long Midnight Publishing winding down its print publishing operation, and with the vultures of calamity circling over the rotting carcass of the publishing company who once printed books that the critics called "paper with words on", all that will be left of the one-time massive mult...

Can't Get The Blues #4

Added on 20 September 2012

I wrote CAN'T GET THE BLUES sometime around 91' or 92'. Despite the rather upbeat lyric, I've proved a prolific getter of blues in the last twenty years. Nevertheless, I still like the song. The second middle 8 which mentions Blind Willie McTell was added more recently. This versio...