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Hey everyone - Ka pai tino pai - The Wild Card now on Amazon thanks to Joffe Books and to The Cuba Press who started it all off. Blood Matters will follow soon.
"A very clever present for someone, and yourself... I highly recommend it as a reading adventure" - @leafbookshop
A lovely end to a tough month. Very cool for DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER to be incl with @Connellybooks, @Beathhigh, @richardosman etc youtu.be/UNDdIX0MjzM via @YouTube
If a kid knocks on the door on Halloween and asks for money ask them for a song or poem in exchange. Good to know you only get money if you work for it and its fun and rewarding to hear them sing or say a poem.
Great Crime Writers panel at Palmerston North Library last night. Val McDermid, Michael Robotham, J P Pomare on the mysterious and murderous lives of crime writers. Great MC too.
Morena. For my latest fortnightly column for 'Murder is Everywhere', a fab website bringing together writers from many countries and continents, I've chatted a little about the authors/novels recently longlisted for the #2022Ngaios. Check it out: murderiseverywhere.blogspot.…#yeahnoir
Final edits. Getting oh-so-close. Truly honoured to be editor for this first-of-its kind antipodean crime & thriller anthology, now series. Kia ora rawa atu to all involved, esp @LindyCameron1 and all our wonderful storytellers. I'm a lucky guy. Pre-order: clandestinepress.net/product…
Jess Hawk Oakenstar, great and talented singer, performer, song writer, cast member, friend, died yesterday in USA. Once I said to her, ‘Jess, I need a song starting with the line ‘Dear Gertrude Stein’ and she said, ‘Okay’ and the next day I had it.
All the anti-vax rubbish reminds me of that USA governor (was it Texas?) who said, when asked if a version of the bible could be published in a Middle Eastern language, said, ‘ English was good enough for Jesus Christ and its good enough for me.’ ?