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...

Short Excerpt from THE UNBURIED DEAD 2

Added on 13 September 2012

It is a question being asked by hundreds of millions of crime fiction fans around the world: what in the name of fuck is Douglas Lindsay working on now? Today we can exclusively reveal that reclusive renegade author, Lindsay, is secretly at work on the follow-up to 2012's smash hit crime thriller Th...

The Death Throes of Long Midnight Publishing

Added on 09 September 2012

Elvis Shackleton and I started Long Midnight Publishing back in 2002 in order to publish the Barney Thomson series. It was in reaction to Piatkus Books dropping Barney, but actually we started publishing even before they’d officially let me know that they wouldn’t be continuing with him....