Devil Launch #3

My first novel Lawless & the Devil of Euston Square was relaunched thanks to @TitanBooks on Thursday 26 Nov.

A warm and charming audience enjoyed Devils on Horseback and Winter Pimms provided by hosts Blackwell’s in Portsmouth (thanks, Jo). My Q & A partner Diana Bretherick made everyone feel at home, and we enjoyed a good singalong along these lines:

Huge thanks are due to Phil Patterson, my agent, who has already sold this book twice in a few years (when it took me ten to sell it once).

Likewise to my editor, Miranda Jewess, of Titan Books, who not only accepted my finicky wish to re-edit some colons but went above and beyond in deploying her knowledge of Victorian style to improve it still further.

Thanks too to Rebecca Lea Williams, the mastermind of this map that I’m so pleased with I could yelp.

And to my niece Nina McIlwain for telling me I needed a list of characters. Other than that, the book remains the same.

A glittering array of writers were in attendance. To name a few:

AJ Noon, who opened up Day of the Dead brilliantly this year.

Ben Aitken, fresh from launching his unconventional travel book Dear Bill Bryson at Shakespeare and Co.

Tom Harris, who’s adding Victorian sweeps to his roster of teenage heroes in the Amber series.

Lynne E Blackwood, who’s launching the collection Closure next week.

Matt Wingett, whose Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light is going to rock some rationalist notions.

Christine Lawrence, whose Caught in the Web I just read and loved.

Andy Prior, who will tell you about his nom de plume if you ask nicely.

Diana Bretherick, with whom I’ll be presenting Victorian Devils tomorrow evening at Portchester Library.

Thanks to the other writers and readers who popped in, on their way to the Portsmouth Writers Hub agents’ evening at Café Parisien. More nonsense about the book on the site soon.