The State of Crime Fiction in Australia Australian crime fiction is thriving. From award-winning literary thrillers to top-selling indie mysteries dominating Amazon charts, the genre continues to evolve while holding tight to what readers love most: strong sense of place, moral tension, flawed investigators, and crimes rooted in uniquely Australian landscapes. Whether it’s outback noir, …
It’s been way too long since a Jack Lisbon book came out – almost a year in fact. The mundane reasons for this are threefold. I had a big private ghost-writing job to complete, there was an international conference I had to take part in that sucked up a ton of my time, and there …
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It’s taken since 2015 to put this baby to bed, but “Sold Dirt Cheap”, the third and final instalment in the Game Changer series featuring the hapless Gary Braswell, is finally set to launch on Amazon on 23 June 2023. The first book, “SOLD”, was published in 2017, the second, “Sold to the Devil” – …
The next instalment in the Jack Lisbon Fighting Detective series, “Point Blank” is set to launch on Amazon on 23 December 2022. I had hoped to have it published early November, but I have more excuses than Jack Lisbon has taken punches to the head, so I’m not even going to try and justify this …
Just a quick update to let you know that my next Jack Lisbon crime fiction novel, Drop Shot, is set to launch on 8 July. Why have I picked that date? Well, generally the dates I pick for book launches have nothing to do with anything. However, since this book revolves around the world of …
It’s been ages since I profiled another writer. Shame on me! But let’s get that sorted with a special interview. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a wonderful talent, J.B. Stevens. J.B. Stevens lives in the Southeastern United States with his wife and daughter. His short story collection A Therapeutic Death was a 2022 …
Well, I’ve gone and done it again. Not completed that novel I was supposed to have finished two months ago. I’d promised myself to have Shot to the Heart written, edited and up for sale waaay before the time of writing this update. However, a few life events have interrupted the flow and, um…Oh, just …
There’s an indie author out there who I reckon will soon crack the big time in the spy thriller genre. He’s written two outstanding novels so far, and hopefully plenty more are on the way. His name is RT Breach. Not only is RT an emerging writer with a powerful, visceral style, he …
Hi PJ. Thanks for dropping by and taking the time to subject yourself to one of my torturous interviews. Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing life. I read mysteries and biographies starting in elementary school. Writing as an author didn’t occur to me until I had written a murder mystery after …
