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I will follow you and visit you,Lascivious Aurelius and wanton dancer Furius, who, from my verses, thought me to be soft-spoken, a little modest.For the pious poet himself ought to be chaste; [...]

Writing’s so easy, right? There’s a quote by Hemingway: There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. And who wants to go through the pain and [...]

Jeremiah Meehan wrote to me from New York to say how much he enjoyed reading The Devil’s Half Mile whilst tracking the progress of Justy, Kerry, Lars et al on the map inside the cover of [...]

The team at Forge Books have kindly set me up with a modest book tour here in the US after Hudson’s Kill drops on September 17. Here’s the itinerary so far: Saturday 21 September LONG [...]

That got your attention! I’ve been writing a guest blog post about pirates for about a month now. It’s not supposed to be a long post, but the pirate world is quite irresistible. [...]

On a summer’s day in 1799, a group of men were driving cattle from Kentucky to Virginia, along a road known as Boone’s Trace, when the cows suddenly quit the road and rushed into the woods. Once [...]

My publisher asked me to write a blog post about St Patrick’s day as I remembered it in Ireland. It includes one of my favourite stories about being a newcomer to the US. You can read it on [...]

The back half of 2018 was quite a whirlwind! The Devil’s Half Mile dropped on Tuesday June 5, and I went straight into a book tour very generously organized by the Tor/Forge crew at Macmillan. We [...]

I’ve been on the book fan website/app Goodreads for a while, but I have no real idea how to use it, and certainly not as an author. And it seems like bit could be a very useful tool. I [...]

I’m working on a list of favorite historical mysteries written around the time of The Devil’s Half Mile. It’s for guest blog post that I’m putting together. The big [...]