Declan Burke Writes

Raymond Chandler once said - and I’m paraphrasing, now - that a good title for a novel is a title of a novel that has sold a million books....

It’s not often I get reviewed these days, which is hardly surprising, given that I haven’t had a book published since God was a lad. Or 200...

Like most people who are even semi-serious about the writing business, I try to write every day. That’s not always possible, what with pesk...

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...

First off, let me apologise for the erratic posting that the Three Regular Readers might have noticed here at CAP for the last while. The r...

Maybe it’s just me, but a chart of this writer’s writing life would probably look a lot like a seismograph during a quake hitting 7.2 on th...

Colin Bateman (right) was kind enough to give me a very generous plug last week, in a piece he wrote for the Guardian’s Book Blog , in whic...

The Artist Formerly Known As Colin Bateman had a nice piece over on the Guardian Book Blog today (Thursday, 3rd), in which he waxed lyrica...

Craig Sisterson over at Kiwi Crime was kind enough to point his 9mm at me (oo-er, missus), said 9mm being a quick-fire interview consisting...

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 been feeling a bit off about the whole writing bit lately, which is maybe a consequence of finishing a draft of a novel before I went ...

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 ...

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 ...