Declan Burke Writes

Après le deluge, c’est moi . Or words to that effect. The immediate aftermath of writing a book is always a weird time, a period of twitchi...

A strange old week, folks. First off, heartfelt thanks to everyone who left a comment on the post below, and those of you who got in touch ...

As all three regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve been banging on about a writers’ co-op recently, this despite (or because of) the...

I’ve mentioned before in these pages that I’m a fan of Scott Phillips (right), and that THE ICE HARVEST was one of the finest books I read ...

Okay, so you’ve probably had it up to your proverbials with A GONZO NOIR blurbs this week, but I really couldn’t resist this one. All three...

I’ve mentioned the Holden Caulfield impulse before on these pages, the Holden Caulfield impulse being the one where Holden says that someti...

God bless Sir Kenneth of Bruen (right, portrait by KT McCaffrey ). I was in Galway on Friday night, and got an email from Sir Ken saying he...

All three regular readers of Crime Always Pays may or may not remember A GONZO NOIR, a novel I posted to the web last summer, just for the ...

Last year, when I was uploading A GONZO NOIR to the web, I was very tempted to make it a more radical experience of reading than you get f...

There hasn’t been a review of our humble offering THE BIG O since God was a boy, so it was a pleasant surprise when one popped up this wee...

Six or seven years ago, when I was writing the first draft of what eventually became A GONZO NOIR , I had a good long think about what woul...

Author, blogger and part-time Evil Genius Gerard Brennan (right) has been doing terrific things for Northern Ireland crime fiction in the f...

A Minister for Propaganda Elf writes : “Herewith be the final instalment of Declan Burke’s internet novel, A GONZO NOIR (right), and thank ...

A Grand Vizier writes : “Pootled along to see the new Batman flick The Dark Knight yesterday morning, and terrific stuff it is too, an unus...

The story so far : Failed author Declan Burke (right), embittered but still passably handsome, wakes up one morning to find a stranger in h...

The story so far : Failed author Declan Burke (right), embittered but still passably handsome, wakes up one morning to find a stranger in h...

The story so far : Failed author Declan Burke (right), embittered but still passably handsome, wakes up one morning to find a stranger in h...

The story so far : Failed author Declan Burke (right), embittered but still passably handsome, wakes up one morning to find a stranger in h...

The story so far: Failed author Declan Burke (right), embittered but still passably handsome, wakes up one morning to find a stranger in h...

Failed writer Declan Burke (right), embittered but still passably handsome, writes : Many thanks to everyone who took the time to leave a c...