10th March, 2011 - Return of the Blake

Thanks to a successful campaign waged on Facebook, Royston Blake is back! The fourth book in the "Mangel Trilogy" series (ahem) will be ONE DEAD HEN, out on 9th August from AmazonEncore. If you liked any of the other book, please do check it out - personally I think it is Blakey at his best.

Also the first three books will be re-issued by the same publisher, one per month leading up to the new one in August. DEADFOLK comes out May 10th, BOOZE AND BURN* on June 14th and KING OF THE ROAD on July 12th.

The hardest pound-for-pound doorman in Mangel is back, ladies and gents. Please support the series and help a fifth to get published.

* New title for FAGS AND LAGER. Apologies to fans of the original title, but the new publisher is American and that title looks a bit weird there.

9th March, 2011 - Graven Image

My novella GRAVEN IMAGE will be published on April 1st by Crime Express/Five Leaves Press. It is a short psycho thriller kind of thing about Leon, a brothel bouncer with a debt to pay. And boy, does he pay it. Please check it out and support independent publishers (and independent authors). Here is an early review from the Nerd of Noir. (Non-UK readers can get it postage-free here.

8th March, 2011 - Couple of Events

First off I will be in Matlock on Saturday 12th March as part of the Derbyshire Readers' Day (which seems to be two days, starting on the 11th, but never mind). Find me on a panel alongside Danuta Reah, hosted by Stephen Booth, which goes by the title "Keeping it Short".

In June I will be doing something for the Worcester Literature Festival. Details TBA on the events page but I can say now that it will be at Worcester Library, 6.30 - 8pm on Wednesday June 22nd. Rock 'n roll!