Miss 9 and I had a fab time strolling around the bluebell and Narnia speckled woodland with 250 other fine folks at
Banstead parkrun 🌳🥾
#Loveparkrun

Very cool to see the great Don Winslow on one of my fave sports shows, chatting with Rich Eisen today about #CityinRuins and taking his talents into other fields. Check it out: youtu.be/cSE9v34-d00?si… via YouTube Rich Eisen Show

“The days are long, but the years are short,' as they say. Stumbled over this old pic of me & Miss 9, back when she was Miss 2 and I didn't look so much like Santa Claus. Loved stories then, and now. Pic captures her fave moment of a fave Kiwi book: 'out of the shadows, they saw'

Still having #SolarEclipse2024 #FOMO .
We sailed into the middle of the Atlantic and did actually #MO on the entire (non-)event.
This photo from NASA is simply amazing.

Love this feature by Stephen Jewell, and not just cause I get to mention some fave Kiwi things like boysenberries, steak n cheese pies, and the Black Ferns (among all the bookish stuff)!
#yeahnoir #DarkDeedsDownUnder Clan Destine Press SistersinCrime Aust Australian Crime Writers Association

So many convos I've had with authors about brilliance of James Lee Burke ... he's the crime writer's crime writer, a legend. On lit vs genre debate, I heard someone say 'just throw a Peter Temple' at those who disparage crime fic as literature; I say push a shelf of JLB on them!

Lin-Manuel Miranda: “You have to live with the notion of, ‘If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.’” #writing

Kia ora to everyone who came out for 'Deadly in Dunedin' last week. We always love visiting DN Public Libraries as part of our nationwide Mystery in the Library series. This year it was a fabulous quartet of Liam McIlvanney, Paul Knowles, Kura Carpenter & Vanda Symon #yeahnoir

Nice memories of Nelson Arts Festival in Oct 2022, with Renée and I joking around at Suter Gallery. Good times with great people when I was last home (I think print feature will be in this weekend's Canvas Magazine), via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/… #yeahnoir Clan Destine Press

A crucial life skill is the ability to maintain hope and find meaning despite life's inescapable pain, loss, and suffering.

It's called tragic optimism, and it is one of the most important mindsets and skills for our modern world.

There is a wide chasm between toxic positivity…

Written in the very different voice of Clete Purcel, this is a reminder, if one were needed, not only of how good James Lee Burke is, but also how versatile, even in his 88th year. We’re fortunate to have him.

Where our author chats to @StephenJewell of Canvas Magazine about how editing an anthology is kinda like selecting a sports team, growing NZ fruit in London, remembering Renée, and lots about our fab Kiwi/Aussie crime writers... via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/… Clan Destine Press

Tickets still available for our first crime event of the year!

Busy few weeks so forgot to share in February: last year at Bloody Scotland I had pleasure of chairing Swedish star Pascal Engman in a cool 'The Darkest Web' panel with Ashley Kalagian Blunt & Lisa Ballantyne. We later did a Q&A for Good Reading Magazine in Australia: goodreadingmagazine.com.au/article/swedis…