10 Ways In Which Editors Avoid Writers

Added on 07 July 2011

Ever wondered why it's easier to get hold of Muammar Gaddafi than it is to have a conversation with your editor, or indeed any editor at a publishing house. Here's the top ten ways in which they avoid contact with writers: 1. They permanently have their Out of Office reply set up for their e-mail a...

A Crapulent Bag of Self-Righteous Fuck

Added on 06 July 2011

Media in ferment. Nothing the media likes more than to get to talk about itself. Public inquiry? Oh yes, that will make all the difference. Perhaps we can get Lord Hutton to take the chair, and he can listen studiously for three months and then decide that it was all the fault of the people whose p...

Plan 16 From Outer Space

Added on 05 July 2011

Today 1000 Voices brings you a new short story from award-wining novelist Douglas Lindsay, and when I say award-winning, I refer to, obviously, the fact that my kids once gave me a Best Dad Ever father's day card. Although even that was a while ago. Click on the image below to read 1,005 words of th...

Jessie J, Nobody's Perfect and The End of Civilisation

Added on 04 July 2011

Jessie J first broke into the Hit Parade last year, with a turn of phrase of which Cole Porter would have been proud. When you hear such lines as: Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty sucka You think I can't get hurt like you, you motherfucker and Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' money like...

And The Oscar Goes To... The Muppet In The Corner

Added on 01 July 2011

On Wednesday my fellow Crimefest panelist Helen Fitzgerald wrote a blog about having her Oscar acceptance speech prepared and ready, long before having a film produced. I started to leave a comment, and then at some stage realised that my comment was going to be just about longer than her initial bl...