Blood on the Carpet

Crime writers gathered in force recently to examine the why's and wherefore's of using a blog to promote new books.

Requiems for the Departed, an anthology of short stories will be published in June. The cover art is by Reece Notley.

The stories have strong links with the world of myth and what John Connolly would probably call "the honeycomb world" that lies underneath the banalities of every day.

For some reason, that only a psychoanalyist would explain, the experience of falling in among the crime writers has left me somewhat footloose and fancy free.