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The Isabel Allende Affair: So Fucking What?
The internet offence machine is in full swing over Isabel Allende’s comments about disliking crime fiction. The fact that she recently released a thriller called Ripper as a “joke”, and that she...
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Review: The Long Lost Dog Of It by Michael Kazepis
Hello there, dear readers. Sorry I’ve been away for so long. It feels like it’s been ages. I’ve been quiet for a while, partly because I’ve been writing frantically to get a decent first draft of The...
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The Hunters is currently free in the UK & the US…
Heads up, folks. In order to capitalise on the long-awaited release of The Glasgow Grin, the direct sequel to The Hunters, the first book is now currently FREE (Yes, you read that correctly), and the...
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The Glasgow Grin by Martin Stanley
Originally posted on Regular Guy Reading Noir:About a year ago, I took a chance and bought a book called The Hunters by Martin Stanley, an author I was unfamiliar with. I devoured the book in two days...
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Some more random musings on the self-published and indie scene
* Music and film have both had Indie scenes without the sky falling in or society falling apart, and both have ultimately changed their artforms for the better. Punk ploughed into the dormant disco...
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Potted Reviews: The Rapist by Les Edgerton, Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr,...
It’s been a while since I posted any reviews. I’m still avoiding most social media, but I thought that my recent reading has included some strong books that deserve exposure to a much wider audience...
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Some random stuff I’ve gleaned doing this self-publishing malarkey
* It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new on this blog. I’ve been busy, but also, paradoxically, I’ve been lazy. * If somebody had told me when I published The Gamblers properly in 2011 that...
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White Noise
* Not so long ago I stopped reading writing advice from other writers. Is that because I’m brilliant at it? Hardly. * Every day I wish I was a better writer. Every day I look at what I’ve written and …...
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Potted reviews: Russian Roulette: The Konstantin Files by Keith Nixon,...
Keith Nixon’s The Fix impressed me a couple of year’s back (and the sequel of sorts I’m Dead Again is just as good). Both featured a six-feet-five Russian tramp called Konstantin whose skillset is...
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I’ve got a brand new author website
After learning HTML and CSS (an ongoing and never ending process, I might add), and after a couple of false starts, I have designed and coded my new author website. Based on the Bootstrap framework,...
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