The Pappa Ron Pizza Book Blurb Reveal

Added on 21 August 2017

As the soon-to-be former President would say, “I’ve had many questions about the new Pereira & Bain books. So many questions, many questions. The best questions. I know many people, the best people, and they ask the best questions.” Which all roughly translates as, I don’...

A Gripping Thriller Vomited From The Mouths Of Gods

Added on 18 August 2017

It’s a measure of how detached I am from this business in which I work, that I hadn’t realised the extent of the ebook subtitle bonanza, where a majority of books in the upper reaches (and presumably lower reaches) of the UK Kindle chart have an extravagant claim to the book’s magn...

Genesis

Added on 15 August 2017

We were watching a game of cricket in Estonia a couple of summers ago. Tallinn has one artificial wicket in a grass field in the middle of a hippodrome, and three teams, who play each other in a two-month round robin. I was talking to this fellow from Glasgow who was playing in the game, and he was ...

A New Hope

Added on 13 August 2017

In the spring of last year the chaps at Blasted Heath decided to throw in the towel. It would be about a year before they’d finally ship the last ebook from their warehouse in space-time, but the decision was made and everyone went off to pursue other activities. I asked Al Guthrie if it was p...

In The Pantheon Of Online Celebrities

Added on 21 July 2017

I was at a meeting with my publisher one day, prior to the release of DI Westphall Book 1, Song Of The Dead. You know, the early days, before too much marketing has been done, when anything is possible. There’s not a damn book out there that doesn’t have the potential to be a blockbuster...