SHOT THROUGH THE HEART 99p
Just a quick note to say SHOT THROUGH THE HEART is 99p/99c on Kindle for the next two days. Oh, what on Earth could this be? — Ed
Fail to plan, plan to fail
A few months ago, I was watching Sky’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL with Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville, an absolutely peerless dissection of the more subtler nuances of football (soccer to those in the US). If anyone had told me ten years ago that those two would be the best pundits on TV… Anyway, Neville made […]
Editing — hell is Microsoft Word
Fascinating piece on the register about Edinburgh scifi writer Charles Stross’s decision to dump Word for LibreOffice on his Mac. I’m of a similar mind — I despise using Word and have been using Scrivener for over two and a half years to create my books, definitely a key reason in why I can be […]
Some very real COWBOYS AND INDIANS
Oddly enough, as I sit down to start work in anger on COWBOYS AND INDIANS (Cullen 7), set in the world of IT project delivery at a fictional financial institution I featured in GHOST IN THE MACHINE, a fascinating study into IT project failures hits my inbox — http://mudano.com/download/metastudy/ Given I’m just away to start […]
94th best crime writer of all time
WH Smith’s blog just announced the results of a recent poll on their top crime writers of all time and, apparently, I’m the 94th best crime writer of all time, ahead of people like Sara Paretsky, Martin Cruz Smith, James Lee Burke and Cecelia Ahern. Oh and some guy called Edgar Allan Poe, who invented detective […]
Cullen 999
Just noticed this morning that I’m up to 999 reviews for GHOST IN THE MACHINE on Amazon.co.uk, averaging 4.2 which is pretty high for a perma-free book. This is completely insane to me – when I published it almost three years ago, I didn’t think that I’d get nine reviews, let alone this number (and […]
ED JAMES in conversation with JAMES OSWALD in Edinburgh on Thursday 12-Feb-15
Just a quick note to say I’ll be interviewing James Oswald at the Edinburgh George St Waterstones (damn, what happened to that possessive apostrophe?) tomorrow night, Thursday 12th Feb, to promote his new novel, Prayer for the Dead — I think the event’s free but ticketed – details here. — Ed
Musings on SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
(This post is a rambling essay on genres but also features some news about the Supernature series and what happens next there…) I posted a response to a thread on KBoards, one of the better places to discuss self-publishing and all that jazz, on the subject of using pen names to write in different genres. […]
I've been talking to myself just to suggest that I'm selfish
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmnWXhxlh14]One of my very favourite songs of all time – GETTING AWAY WITH IT by Electronic, the late 80s side project of NewOrder’s Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr, then late of the Smiths, featuring Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys – features the line “I’ve been talking to myself just to suggest that […]
Writing craft interview with me
Just a quick note to say there’s an interview gone up with some chancer called Ed James over on Scots-American author Allan Mann’s website – http://www.allanlmann.com/blog/insights-from-ed-james/ It focuses mainly on writing craft and how I manage the stupid number of projects I do, so it might not appeal to those looking for the release date of […]