Nice job Mark Ellis Death of an Officer weaves a path through wartime London; starting with the mysterious murder of a reputable Indian doctor, the body of an American officer dumped in a bomb site, and along the seedy underbelly of the London nightclub scene. More Merlin!! 👏

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``If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.'' Mark Twain knew! #WritingCommunity #dayjob #workingweekend #SaturdayMotivation

Bye bye baby, God speed, agus slan abhaile. Tomorrow this wonderful light of my life goes to university to study Linguistics and English Language. Books and stories were always there for our Leila and I. Now she's going to write her own next chapter. Make it epic my princess. 💚

What Little I Know (about all things writing): weekly musings live and large, only on Substack. garydonnelly1.substack.com ✅🙏🏻✍️✍️

Bear with me. A personal one here, as my baby begins university. I wrote this for her and her baby brother many years ago, and which she illustrated. LINK IN BIO garydonnelly1.substack.com The Halloween Tangerines And the Amazing Christmas Dream #childrensbook #writingcommunity

It's not entertainment, but the voice of artists/writers is essential to this conversation. Adrian McKinty Stuart Neville #BloodLikeMine glad to be part of it. #peace What do the new Northern Ireland Troubles legacy proposals entail? | Northern Ireland | The Guardian share.google/XXgBSMEmAfqq2S…

Fellow crime author @julieandersonwriter and I have co-written an article for the very first edition of the great new Aspects of Crime magazine. The subject is portraying real-life criminals in fiction. Pictured mid-20th century London underworld kings Jack ‘Spot’ Comer and Billy Hill.

Been there and done it 👏🤔 Both the diabolical N London soft play of same name and the crime thriller about spooks, secrets and the Troubles. Never Ask The Dead, DI Sheen 3 and now Clown Town by Mick Herron. share.google/eCq3OpBEnnCgVt…

Wow, scundered for you. A masterclass in PR self harm from the Gov. Watch those ticket sales boom. 🫨 👏👏 BBC News - Kneecap rapper's terror case thrown out bbc.com/news/articles/…

In Belfast? Love books? Join me & Malachi O'Doherty on Thursday 13th Nov, 6pm at No Alibis Press bookshop to launch my book Murder in Moonlit Square. It's the first in my new Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in Delhi. noalibis.com/event/paul-wat… Pub by Bedford Square Publishers / No Exit Press

Of all the good opinions I was most anxious to secure, author Cauvery Madhavan was top. So phew! And thank you!

A great thriller!

That's it. The last of the summer jam. We've enjoyed every morsel, enjoyed giving it away even more and I did enjoy the labour of its creation. The next thing the tree in the garden will give is a cloak of leaves to rake and compost, and then it's skeletal map on the winter sky.

Thanks to Mal McCann and Hannah Patterson for this piece on Doggy Danders. We have extra Danders over Christmas for anyone who is looking for a welcoming community. Remember, you don't need a dog to come to Doggy Danders! Come join us! DM for any info you need.

‘Unputdownable’ historian Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 ‘Intriguing…masterly’ John Lawton, author of the Inspector Troy series ‘Historical noir at its best’ thriller writer Gary Donnelly ‘Evokes a vanished London so impressively…written so well’ The Times and The Sunday Times Dead In The Water-Frank Merlin 5

New year, new deal and Sheen and Aoife and back in business. Absolutely delighted to make this announcement. This is just the beginning... 💚💪🙏🏻

So I, and Death Of An Officer, won the inaugural Cob and Pen Literary Award for Crime Fiction last night at the Bloody Barnes Gala Dinner! Here I am with my beautiful glassware prize and the brilliant event organiser Anne Mullins.