It’s been a busy start to February for me. Outside the Law is finally a reality and doing really well so far. And though I’ve tried to keep up with all the goings on, for a variety of reasons I haven’t really had time to digest the reaction to the book and post daily here, or …
Today is pub day for Outside the Law, and, as I did yesterday, I have to again say thanks to the crew at Brash Books (Lee Goldberg & Joel Goldman) for taking the time to read the manuscript, see something in it, and then have the patience and insight to help shape it into what …
…Outside the Law is released! Pulp Fiction Cover of the Day Today’s Links ‘Six Four’ avoids every crime-fiction cliche. The reward is a gripping novel: Hideo Yokoyama’s complex, ingenious and engrossing new novel, “Six Four,” has no serial killers, no femmes fatales, no locked-room murders, no torture, no sexually repressed villains, not even much in the …
I use a variety of methods to stay mentally and physically focused while I’m trying to write a novel, and this is important to me because I don’t spend all day writing. I may go days without being able to sit down with the characters, and I need to be able to jump right back …
After 3 ½ years in the making, it’s hard to believe I’m now three weeks away from the launch of my latest novel, Outside the Law (coming 1 February from Brash Books). Writing this novel has been by far my most interesting and, I think, productive writing session yet. But it was not without its …
A round-up of stuff that interests me … in no particular order Graeme Macrae Burnet on ‘His Bloody Project,’ Crime Writing and Eloquent Murderers When Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted novel “His Bloody Project” was first released, it had an initial print run of just 1,500 copies. Recommended Read (courtesy of …
Phillip Thompson 