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At the Sharpe End

My second published novel. Click the cover for more information, including ordering signed copies:

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On being famous…

Well, I’ll tell you what it’s like when I actually am famous, which of course I’m not at the moment. But it is nice, I must admit, to see my name in the paper (and I don’t mean in the crime or court section). Of course, since I write regular pieces for magazines, it’s quite [...]

August 22nd, 2010 | Category: Writing, author, book, publishing | One comment

Write Moby-Dick like Raymond Chandler

OK, this is silly. I posted a few paragraphs of Beneath Gray Skies into the “analyze your style” site, and it told me Raymond Chandler. I then tried with an except from At the Sharpe End and it told me I was like Ian Fleming.

I was flattered, I suppose, until someone told me that they [...]

July 16th, 2010 | Category: Writing, author | One comment

How (my) art anticipated reality

A key plot device in my book At the Sharpe End is the use of technology in the financial marketplace – specifically, extrapolating trends to predict future movements (I don’t think I’ve given too much plot away in those few words).

So now what do I see in The Australian?

Maybe machines can do better, or at [...]

July 14th, 2010 | Category: Writing, author, book, marketing, publishing | 2 comments

A Good Day!

It’s been an extremely busy day – an interview with a hotel executive for a magazine interview – lunch with a famous entrepreneur/business executive and a literary agent – taking a vintage Nikon lens to a small camera store for repair – and having a crown fitted after 6 weeks of root canal work on [...]

July 2nd, 2010 | Category: Writing | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Getting it right in independent publishing

Two points about “getting it right” when you’re publishing your own work.

First, the actual words in the book. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times you look over a piece of work, the misprints, mistypings and typographical horrors won’t go away. I found this with Beneath Gray Skies and I’m finding it with At [...]

June 17th, 2010 | Category: Writing, book, publishing | Comments are closed

A Tokyo tale of money, sex and violence

A non-autobiographical story of life, love and death in Tokyo. Coming soon to an Amazon (and B&N, etc.) near you, At the Sharpe End follows the adventures of a British consultant living and working in Tokyo who finds himself in the midst of financial and political chaos at the end of 2008. There’s an embryonic [...]

June 16th, 2010 | Category: Writing, author, book, publishing | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Why do I like John le Carré? (11 words that matter)

Well, sometimes he is repetitive – the post-Smiley books (and sometimes the Smiley as well – The Honourable Schoolboy) typically have a lone honest man fighting the System and falling for an unsuitable woman, but the books are written from a genuine sense of outrage, and ring largely true. Sometimes the plots are complex – [...]

June 4th, 2010 | Category: Writing, author | Comments are closed
 
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