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Italian Edition of Don’t Be a Hero

Update time!

It’s all hands on deck here. I’m busy beavering away on various projects, both writing and real-life nonsense. Currently, I’m deep in the first draft of the third Miles Franco urban fantasy novel. Predictably, things aren’t going too well for Miles. But he’s not the only one having a hard time. And that’s all I’m saying on that for now.

Keep your eyes peeled over the next few weeks for the cover reveal of my upcoming giant monster/hardboiled detective mashup novel, MAYDAY. And mayb...

New Story in THUGLIT

For all you sick puppies out there, my crime-writing pen name Harry St. John has a nasty little story in the latest issue of THUGLIT. No fantasy or sci-fi here, just bad people doing bad things.

And it’s not just my story. You’ll find seven other depraved stories in there, and all you’ll pay is one measly buck to get the Kindle version or $5.99 for the paperback. Go get it at Amazon!

Adrift: A Free Short Story For You

Here’s a late Christmas present for you all. I wrote this little sci-fi story a while ago and never did anything with it. It’s not connected to any of my series and it’s not long enough to justify charging any money for. So I figure why not share it with you fantastic folks? Enjoy!

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Adrift

I found Rubica slumped against the entrance to port airlock 302. He still wore a crumpled blue librarian’s uniform, the elbows and knees black with grease. Hell of a place to come. Back in my granddad’s day...

Happy [insert holiday of choice]!

What a year, huh? I don’t know about you guys, but my year’s been crazier than a box of doorknobs. A few periods where I was writing flat out and a hell of a lot more times when real life kicked my ass. This year I finished off a Postgraduate Diploma in Forensic Science. Next year, Masters degree. Jebus save me.

I debuted my noir-writing Harry St. John pen name this year. There’ll be more from Harry in 2014. I’ve got several short stories full of nasty people doing nasty things all lined up. I...

New Interview Up At Crime Watch

I’ve just been interviewed by the folks over at Crime Watch, New Zealand’s biggest crime fiction blog.

Go check it out here, and have browse around the site while you’re at it. They have a great bunch of articles, interviews, and reviews of Kiwi and international crime fiction. One of my favourite crime fiction blogs.

Sale Time!

If you don’t know how discounts work, it’s like this: you get cool stuff for less money than normal.

It’s pretty awesome.

First up, we have Harry St. John’s dark-as-hell noir mystery, Leave Her Hanging. Just $0.99 or £0.77 over at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.co.uk.

Pretty good, right? Well, let’s beat that. If you haven’t picked up any of my Miles Franco hardboiled urban fantasy books yet, now’s a great time. The first book in the series is totally free at Amazon.com. You won’t pay zip.

The...

Leave Her Hanging is now available!

New release time! Leave Her Hanging, a noir mystery written under my Harry St. John pen name, is now available.

Ella Lewis is dead. Someone must pay.

“I loved Ella. Now she’s a corpse, cooling off in the morgue with a noose-shaped bruise around her neck. The cops say it’s suicide. It wasn’t suicide. I don’t know who killed her, and I don’t know why. But I’m going to find out, no matter what it takes. And when I’m face-to-face with the man who broke my world, I’m going to break him.”

In this toug...

Here’s a video of me reading from my noir mystery “Leave Her Hanging”

Have you ever wondered what I look and/or sound like? No? Well too bad, here’s a video. My YA noir mystery Leave Her Hanging is scheduled for release on 25th September, so I decided to make a quick video of me as Harry St. John reading a short section of the book. Don’t ask me why I thought that would be a good idea.

Also, Harry now has his own site you can check out over at www.harrystjohn.com. It’s pretty sparse at the moment, but it includes an excerpt of the first chapter of Leave Her Hang...

Meet Harry St. John, crime writer

In my last post, I hinted about a new pen name and an upcoming release of mine. I guess I should let you know what the hell I’m talking about.

Towards the end of last year I finished the draft of a little novel that came to be titled Leave Her Hanging. This one’s a bit different from my other work. There are no superheroes or reality-twisting magic powers here, but what it does have in common with my other books is the influence of classic hard-boiled and noir fiction.

Leave Her Hanging is the...

A quick update and a question for you all

Another semester of challenging postgraduate work has begun, so naturally I’m procrastinating. Here in the Strange office (that’s the tiny nook in my apartment containing my computer, a few dozen posters of vintage sci-fi movies, and of course, my Gamera figure to keep me company) I’m gearing up for a new release that should be hitting virtual shelves within the next couple of months. There will be more about that in my next post, but until then I should get you fine folks up to speed on rece...