by Andy | 9th Nov 2016 | A Long Time Dead, CSI Eddie Collins, The Third Rule
A little late to update you about October’s news, but better late… Anyway, the ‘old gal’, A Long Time Dead, has sat comfortably inside the top 100 since it went free in September, and so far it’s never been outside the top 10 in Crime and Police Procedurals. She’s...
by Andy | 5th Aug 2016 | CSI Eddie Collins, Fun
This might be a bad idea, but I thought I’d move over and give Eddie Collins a go on my keyboard. Aside from leaving cigarette ash all over it, he produced this… So I’ve been asked to write a guest post for some author guy, Bandy Arrett, or something. I...
by Andy | 26th Jun 2016 | CSI Eddie Collins, The Lift, The Note, The Third Rule, Writing
This month I turned 50 years old. In truth it doesn’t feel any different to being 49, and it doesn’t feel any different to being 36 either. Remember in The Matrix how Neo discovered his Residual Self Image (the way you think of yourself, and probably the...
by Andy | 12th Feb 2016 | CSI Eddie Collins, Life, The Third Rule, Writing
I blame Eddie Collins. You know when you get to Sainsbury’s for the fish fingers for tonight’s tea, and you curse because the carrier bags you’d set neatly aside on the hallway table are still there? These are the carrier bags you’d bought on the last shopping trip...
by Andy | 12th Jan 2016 | CSI Eddie Collins, The Third Rule, Writing
The new series of books, the ones featuring Eddie Collins, have always done pretty well. They sold steadily and people seemed to love them. The Marmite book in this series has always been The Third Rule, and for one reason: its length. Most books are 80k to 100k words...
by Andy | 31st Jul 2013 | Black by Rose, CSI Eddie Collins, Writing
Been sitting on my hands again? Yes. And no. Some people have been asking if there’s another book on the horizon, so I thought I’d cobble together a few words to explain the answer – which is, ‘slightly beyond the horizon, actually’. Due out in the autumn is an...
