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October 18, 2009
- After confessing on facebook to the fact that my kids mocked my website, I was contacted by an old friend who happens to be a professional - and very talented - designer.He came to my rescue and gave me a new website I can be proud of. It's based on a pre-existing wordpress theme, Workaholic from Graph Paper Press, which has been "re-skinned" to suit my needs, and to fit in with the ...
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September 26, 2009
- From The Demons (aka The Devils, or The Possessed): "She invited literary people, and they were immediately brought to her in great numbers. Then they began to come on their own, without invitations: one would bring another. Never before had she seen men of letters like these. They were impossibly vain, but very openly so, as though that was their duty. Some (though by no means all) would ...
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September 17, 2009
- I was meeting a friend for a drink in the Compton Arms in Islington last week. As I was waiting for him to turn up I overheard a conversation between the barmaid and a punter.“That’s Keanu Reeves’ pint pot,” said the barmaid, nodding towards something wrapped in a plastic carrier bag.“Who?”“Keanu Reeves. He was in here the other night. Must have been filming nearby and he came in ...
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September 14, 2009
- I made the mistake of clicking on my website in front of my son (aged 9). He howled with derision and called his sister (11) over."No, Dad, no! Colour clash! It's so... amateurish! You should have got us to do it! That's terrible!" All this was accompanied by much laughter, and the occasional patronising "Aww" at a particularly inept bit of design on my part. It comes to ...
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March 22, 2009
- Okay, I admit it. It's a mad idea. Serialising a whole novel on twitter. But there is something about the experiment that appeals to me on a creative/communicative level. Inevitably it has led to a fair bit of head shaking of the 'what is the world coming to' variety.There was this in a Miami Herald blog. "Oh the temptation to start raging about the idiocy of new technology is ...
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March 12, 2009
- It seems I'm not the first crime writer to turn his hand to writing a libretto. Apparently, Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith have also had a go, as I discovered from this article in The Times.Is there something about writing crime fiction that makes us especially qualified for the task, I wonder?Without wanting to appear either pretentious or glib - though aware that I will probably come ...
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February 27, 2009
- I'm in it, just - at number 10! Here's the full list:1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg LarssonQuercus £7.992. Child 44 - Tom Rob SmithPocket Books £7.993. Blood From Stone - Frances FyfieldSphere £12.994. A Simple Act of Violence - R.J.ElloryOrion £9.995. Swan Peak - James Lee BurkeOrion £14.99 6. Therapy - Sebastian FitzekPan Macmillan £6.997. Revelation - C.J.SansomMacmillan ...
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February 25, 2009
- I spent most of the last year and a bit writing a novel. To stop myself contracting that well-known condition 'writer's arse', I made myself go swimming twice a week, a quick(ish) twenty lengths at Wednesday lunchtime, and thirty lengths (going up to forty lengths more recently) on Saturday morning. That's not a lot of exercise, I know, but more than I have done for a long time. And I am not a ...
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January 29, 2009
- Earlier this week, I finished the first write-through of my new Porfiry Petrovich novel, A RAZOR WRAPPED IN SILK. I’m leaving it for a few days before I do my first read-through. As it currently stands, it’s longer than anything I’ve yet written, about sixty words short of the 125K mark. I suspect it will shed a few thousands of those words in the editing. I’ve just finished ...
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December 8, 2008
- ... was won by Child 44. But, hey, my book A Vengeful Longing was runner-up!!! So was The Likeness by Tana French.Full story hereHere's what they said about AVL:Morris resurrects one of literature’s all-time greatest characters: Porfiry Petrovich, the detective from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The result reads like an episode of Columbo, but with feverish Russian psychology and the ...
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October 25, 2008
- This is a great thrill for me. The russian language edition of my first St Petersburg-set novel , A Gentle Axe has come out in Russia, published by U-Factory. The Russian title is Благородный топор, which apparently means more 'The Noble Axe'. This is in keeping with one aspect of the meaning of 'gentle' that I wanted to come through. The title came from this quote from ...
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October 10, 2008
- There's a new interview with me up on the Faber siteI was also interviewed this week by an Israeli journalist. It seems the Hebrew edition of A Gentle Axe has either just come out or is about to. The interview was for the Maariv newspaper and hasn't appeared yet. The Israeli journalist asked me about the cover for the Hebrew edition, which I had not seen, and had nothing at all to do with ...
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September 4, 2008
- The kids went back to school today, which means I was able to pick up the pieces on my wip. I'm about 30,000 words into it but I had the feeling over the summer that it was falling apart in my hands. Not that I was working on it, just fretting over it.I now realise that I need to re-order some of the early scenes and that that will call for revision to the rest of what I've written so far. I'm ...
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July 26, 2008
- I was typing in a title for this blog entry, and the computer automatically supplied the questions above. "What am I doing? What should I be doing?" Presumably that means they are questions I have asked myself before, frequently. Seems to me they are questions writers might reasonably ask themselves all the time. At the moment I'm working on two projects, pretty much simultaneously. ...
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