Another good book review in for Gate of Tears, by the Lymington Times, who said:“The 366 action-packed pages […]
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I love to write thrillers with marine themes – after all, I’ve been in love with the sea […]
Writing with Maritime Themes – Maltese Falcon
Get Your Facts Right Or Lose Readers! I was recently reading a thriller written by a New York […]
Why is Fact Checking Important?
Here I’m not going to discuss literary fiction – such as written by Ian McKeown or V […]
Suspending Belief – Fiction versus Faction
James Marinero’s Schooldays Evening Post 19/8/11. Based on a telephone interview I did, the journos got the […]
My Schooldays
My publisher sent me off this week, off with parcel of books. Copies of ‘Gate of Tears’ to […]
Spreading – No – Sharing The Word
I’ve been doing some work on my website – favourite poetry and so on – and got to […]
Bingo!
“If you thought metadata was complicated, meet BookLamp.org, a new book discovery search engine that tracks 32,160 distinct […]
Booklamp – Analyzing Books Is A Concern
‘Sicilian Channel’ is shaping up nicely – so much to write, but it’s coming along well, and the […]
Sicilian Channel
Research for ‘Gate of Tears’ led me into the world of cyberwarfare, specifically, the activities of China. I […]
Chinese Cyber Warfare
– Another Long March? China started sea trials of the Shi-Lang aircraft carrier (ex Russian ‘Varyag’). This has […]
Chinese Aircraft Carrier Trials
Well, the Kindle version has been available for a week now and the sales have started coming in! […]
Amazon Kindle Version
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was reminscent of Mickey Spillane. […]
The Lincoln Lawyer
It seems that there’s a piece of music called ‘Gate of Tears’ on an album called ‘The Gathering’ […]
Gate of Tears by Jorn
In 1920, the price of gold was $20 per ounce, in 1950 $34 per ounce, and in 1970 […]
Second Funny Feeling…
The news this morning gave me a strange feeling. Twice. Here’s the first: If you’ve read ‘Gate of […]
Prophesies Coming True?
Just heard from the Big A (that’s Amazon, not New York) that ‘Gate of Tears’ is now on […]
On Kindle now, but at what price?
Great news – just heard that Amazon have just delivered Gate of Tears to a customer in Australia! […]
Gate of Tears Hits Australia!
Another interveiw yesterday, Thursday, with a regional magazine. Funny how things turn out – the journalist and I […]
Press Interviews…
Great news! Gate of Tears is now on Kindle! Here.
Gate Of Tears Now On Kindle
My publisher has been doing great work with press releases. The focus is on regional publications where a […]
