Engineered From Inside Out

Added on 04 April 2012

In NFL (American football) news, Nike have replaced Reebok as the official supplier to the league. Unlike in the UK, where each team goes to a sports company for a deal and produces a new strip every other year for commercial purposes, the NFL does a deal with a manufacturer who then supplies each t...

Douglas Lindsay Talks To Radio 4 About LOST IN JUAREZ

Added on 03 April 2012

With the government about to unveil their new surveillance plans, which will turn Britain into a police state worthy of a George Orwell novel, Douglas Lindsay talked to John Humphreys this morning on the Radio 4 Today show about LOST IN JUAREZ, the 2008 political thriller which predicted the day th...

Man Writes Crime Novel

Added on 02 April 2012

I've not been blogging much the last couple of months. On here. I've been writing a novel, which is time consuming. I like to write the first draft of a novel at as fast a pace as I can manage. Submerge myself in it and type away frantically until it's finished. Then I like to imagine t...

The Resurrection of Harry Potter

Added on 18 March 2012

This week's THIS BLASTED LIFE has been available for a couple of days now, but at the time it was posted I was in a car, and I've not really had the chance to sit at a computer since then, since I've been in long meetings with Blasted Heath supremos Al Guthrie and Kyle McRae. We've b...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY BEHIND THE £1.99 BARNEY THOMSON PAPERBACK

Added on 12 March 2012

To be honest, it's not that extraordinary. I have a vision. The seven Barney Thomson novels, with wonderful testicle-grabbing covers, staring out at customers from the shelves of WH Smiths, Waterstones and airport book stores all over the world. I'll turn up at the Frankfurt Book Fair with m...