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Grist Mill Road Excerpt

Now available via the Macmillan website, you can read the first chapter of ‘Grist Mill Road’ here.

The novel will be released on January 9, 2018. Click here to buy.

First review, GRIST MILL ROAD

First review of GRIST MILL ROAD is in from Kirkus. You can read it here.

Grist Mill Road, Krysten Ritter and the New York Times

My forthcoming novel, Grist Mill Road, was recently mentioned in a New York Times article about books and Instagram, resulting from the fact that Krysten Ritter shared a picture of my novel on Instagram here. You can check out the New York Times article here.

Coming January 9, 2018

Book Signing, BEA

I’ll be signing books on June 1 at BEA (BookExpo America), from 11a.m. Please come along and make me feel slightly less ignored. The venue this year is Javits Center, NYC.

From Russia With Lag

In early February 2012, I’d been trying (and failing) for years to write something worthy of publication. It was just one day before my 40th birthday, a milepost I had already decided would mark the end of my unsuccessful writing career. I had no idea what I was going to do instead, which was an utterly terrifying feeling. And then, out of the blue ether, came an offer from Russia to publish Black Chalk, which was a shock for two reasons: firstly, no one up to that point had wanted to publish...

Short Story Reading – April 26, NYC

If you find yourself anywhere near the East Village, NYCnext Tuesday (and why shouldn’t you?) then I’ll be reading a short story at a fantastic event courtesy of Honeysuckle Magazine and Heliotrope Books. See the flyer below for details.

It’s the short story that became the basis of my second novel which, please God, will soon emerge from the gnarled cocoon of its first draft as a beautiful winged second draft. (At which point the bastard can fly away from me forever. No, I’m having a lot of...

Short Story (And Second Novel Update)

Click here for a short story I recently had published in Honeysuckle Magazine. (It begins on page 5; but check out all the good stuff inside.) The story’soriginal titlewas Wisconsonian Glaciation and Its Role In the Formation of Long Island but I editedthe glacier out ofthe tale (although the glacier wasn’t happy about this) and renamedit, rather more economically,Summer Noir for Honeysuckle’s Issue 3: Noir.

This is the very short story that formed the basis of my second novel, of which the f...

Thrill Seekers Radio Interview

Click here tolisten to an interview I recently recorded with Alex Dolan, a fellow novelist, for his show Thrill Seekers. Highlights include why young people are terrible and how David Cameron the UK Prime Minister’s lewd act with a dead pig is importantly connected to my first novel, Black Chalk.

Finishing Lines

I’m about to lock myself away, alone, in a remote cabin in the Catskills for ten days to finish* my second novel. These are my rations.

If anyone knows George RR Martin, tell him he’s welcome to join me but he has to bring his own tinned pies.

Breakfast: Toast and Marmite
Lunch: Trail mix
Dinner: Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney pie/pasta and homemade Bolognese meat sauce

*Note to my agent: non-legally binding