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PAPERBOY preorder sale

Swithering about getting a shiny new hardback?

Well, this might tip you over. Waterstones is doing a 25% off sale on preorders of books coming out soon. This weekend only.

This includes my new book, PAPERBOY!

PAPERBOY is the sequel to my debut novel, Squeaky Clean, which won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023.

DCI Ally McCoist is back, newly promoted but no more popular.

If you’re keen, click here to preorder, and use the code PREORDER25 to get th...

Launching PAPERBOY in March 2025

In just shy of two months time I’ll be launching my new novel, PAPERBOY, into the world with a couple of special events.

The first is on Thursday 13th March at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, where I’ll be talking to the excellent Cailean Steed (Home). You can see the details and book tickets here.

The second is on Tuesday 18th March at Topping & Company in Edinburgh. Info and booking is here. (There is an excellent ‘early bird’ ticket offer which you can take advantage of for t...

Godspeed, 2024

I won’t take up too much of your time, I just wanted to share a few words about the year along with some of my favourite reads and some sneaky recs for 2025.

The paperback of Squeaky Clean was launched way back in January and was Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month, which was incredible! It also published in the US in the summer, receiving a wonderful review in the Wall Street Journal (“With its wit, terror, guts and gumption, Mr. McSorley’s first novel is a smash.”), and capped off 2024 b...

Loch Long Crime Writing Residency

I have returned from my two week residency at Cove Park with lots written and batteries recharged.

It was a real privilege to stay in such an incredible and beautiful place. Endlessly inspiring and miraculously peaceful. (The pictures don’t do it justice!)

I owe a massive thanks to Alexia Holt, Alex Marrs and the whole Cove Park team for a brilliant time, and their Argyll Patron who funds the Loch Long Crime Writing Residency. (Loch) Long may it continue!

It was also lovely to be ar...

Loch Long Crime Writing Residency

I am extremely grateful and privileged to have been award the Loch Long Crime Writing Residency at Cove Park!

From 28 Oct to 10 Nov, I’ll be holed up in the incredible surrounds of Argyll to work on my next book. Expect many scenic pictures. May or may not lose my mind due to all the peacefulness, we’ll see.

Massive thanks to Cove Park’s Argyll Patron whose support makes this residency possible.

EVENT: Book Week Scotland, AK Bell Library, Perth, 21/11/24 @7pm

As part of Book Week Scotland and Perth & Kinross Libraries’ Autumn Authors series, I’ll be doing an event at AK Bell Library in Perth on 21st November at 7pm.

I’ll be talking all things Squeaky Clean and maybe even giving some hints about my next book, Paperboy.

You can get more info and buy tickets here.

And you can check out the full Autumn Authors programme here.

EVENT: SF Caledonia at World Con

Hyped to be taking part in an event at World Con this year!

The wonderful Noel Chidwick has asked me to read at his event: SF Caledonia: A Stroll Through Scottish Science Fiction, Past, Present, and Future.

Noel and Pippa Goldschmidt will be taking the audience on a tour of Scottish sci fi through the ages, with readings from various authors past and present.

The event will take place on the Sunday at 11am in the Meeting Academy M4.

There’s more info on the event here, and all thin...

Bute Noir 2024: Long Arm of the Law w/ Marion Todd, Ed James & Callum McSorley, 4/8/24, 3pm, @ The Glenburn Hotel

Really looking forward to heading to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute this Sunday for Bute Noir 2024.

I’ll be taking part in a panel called ‘Long Arm of the Law’ alongside Scottish crime writing greats Marion Todd (DI Claire Mackay series) and Ed James (DI Rob Marshall series), chaired by the fantastic Bryan Burnett.

The event takes place on Sunday 4th August at 3pm at the Glenburn Hotel.

Tickets are £7 and can be bought from Bute’s independent bookshop Print Point (01700 503389).

The fu...

60 Years of English & Creative Writing at Strathclyde, 5/6/24, 6pm @ Strathclyde Union

Thrilled to be returning to the University of Strathclyde for the first time in a decade (!) for this event celebrating 60 years of English and Creative Writing at Strathy.

I’ll be appearing alongside fellow Strathy alumni and recently published writers Margaret McDonald (Glasgow Boys) and Megan Ridgway (The Magpie) to talk about our work and our years as creative writing students at Strathclyde.

The chat will be chaired by the excellent author and memoirist Dr Rodge Glass, Convener of...

Read SECRET INGREDIENTS on SF Caledonia

Lovely to see one of my old short stories get a fresh airing, this time on the website SF Caledonia.

SF Caledonia is a new online home for Scottish sci fi created by Shoreline of Infinity co-founder Noel Chidwick with the aim of being, “a space for Scotland to show off its talented community of science fiction/ speculative fiction/fantasy writers to the world – and beyond.”

And I’m really proud that Secret Ingredients has landed there after first being published in Shoreline in 2019.

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