Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like to have written?
James Ellroy’s LA CONFIDENTIAL.
What fictional character would you most like to have been?
Boone Daniels in Don Winslow’s THE DAWN PATROL because he’s such a damn good surfer.
Who do you read for guilty pleasures?
George V Higgins, Elmore Leonard, Don Winslow, Peter Temple, Ken Bruen, James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, Anthony Bourdain.
Most satisfying writing moment?
When the plot resolves itself unaided.
The best Irish crime novel is …?
You think I’m crazy, you think I’m gonna say anything other than THE BIG O?
What Irish crime novel would make a great movie?
Have to say THE TWELVE by Stuart Neville – partly because I read it recently, am still raving about it, and reckon it could be set in South Africa.
Worst / best thing about being a writer?
Worst – when I answer the phone after six hours work and the caller apologies for waking me up! Best – when I head off to the beach in the middle of the morning.
The pitch for your next book is …?
I need to paint the house, please buy my novel, PAYBACK.
Who are you reading right now?
SA writer called Andrew Brown whose book REFUGE contains one of the best sex scenes ever and a jail rape that out Bunkers Edward Bunker.
God appears and says you can only write OR read. Which would it be?
Read. I’m assuming that God would oblige and take away the obsession.
The three best words to describe your own writing are …?
Ever so cool.
Mike Nicol’s PAYBACK will be published in January by Old Street Publishing.
2 comments:
Fook, Mike Nicol is an author, a blogger, an energetic promoter of his country's crime writing. The man's a regular Declan Burke.
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Pshaw, sir, I blush ... especially as it feels like I haven't had a book published since God was a boy ...
Cheers, Dec
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