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Tag Archives: Ghost Money
Ghost Money reading, Summer crime work shop & other end of year notices
I know I am not the only one who will be glad to wave goodbye to the end of a long year. Before I head off for a few weeks break, I just want to give you all a quick heads up about a few things that are happening, that you might like to check out.
First up, a big thanks to The Segilola Salami Podcast for having me on to read from my first novel, Ghost Money. Ghost Money originally came out in 2013 and it is still a book that is dear to my heart. The story takes place in Cambodia, 1996, just as the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting and competing factions of the coalition government scrambling to gain the upper hand. Missing in the chaos is businessman Charles Avery. Hired to find him is Vietnamese Australian ex-cop Max Quinlan. Anyway you can hear me read a couple of chapters, talk about the origins of the book, and why I wrote it here.
If you like what you hear and want to pick up a copy of Ghost Money, you can do so via Amazon.
The good folks at Writers Victoria have asked me to run a day-long class for emerging authors on January 15.… Read more
Posted in Australian crime fiction, Australian pulp fiction, Ghost Money, Girl Gangs, Biker Boys and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950-1980, Gunshine State
Tagged Crime Time Podcast, Crime writing, Down and Out Books, Ghost Money, Girl Gangs Biker Boys and Real Cool Cats: Pulp Fiction and Youth Culture 1950 to 1980, Segilola Salami show, Writers Victoria
Melbourne Writers Festival: Adrian McKinty & Australia’s pulp history
The Melbourne Writers Festival is upon us and I’ve got a a few slots in the program I wanted to pull on your coats about.
This coming Wednesday, August 27, I’ll be in conversation with crime writer, Adrian McKinty at St Kilda Library. I have written a bit about McKinty on this site, including reviews of his books Falling Glass, and his Shane Duffy trilogy, The Cold, Cold Ground, I Hear the Sirens in the Streets, and In the Morning I’ll Be Gone, and his latest stand alone, The Sun Is God, and I’m looking forward to talking with him in person.
It’ll be a pretty relaxed affair and it is free. Proceedings will kick off at 6.30pm.
Also, join me on August 30 at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, for a walk down the dimly lit back alleys of the lost world of Australian pulp paperback publishing.
For a few decades in the second half of last century, Australia’s pulp scene burned brightly with tales of jaded gumshoes, valiant servicemen and women, sexually bored housewives, jazzed up beatniks, daring spies, and violent youth gangs.
It was disposable fiction, designed for a coat pocket or bag, to be read quickly, and discarded.… Read more
Ghost Money makes long list for Ned Kelly crime writing awards
The long lists for the 2013 Ned Kelly awards for Australian crime writing have been released.
My novel, Ghost Money, has made the long list for best First Fiction, along with a number of other excellent books.
Ghost Money continues to get excellent reviews. So, if you haven’t bought a copy, why not do so.
For those who don’t know the plot, here’s the pitch:
Cambodia, 1996, the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting, competing factions of the coalition government scrambling to gain the upper hand. Missing in the chaos is businessman Charles Avery. Hired to find him is Vietnamese Australian ex-cop Max Quinlan.
But Avery has made dangerous enemies and Quinlan is not the only one looking. Teaming up with Heng Sarin, a local journalist, Quinlan’s search takes him from the freewheeling capital Phnom Penh to the battle scarred western borderlands. As the political temperature soars, he is slowly drawn into a mystery that plunges him into the heart of Cambodia’s bloody past.
Ghost Money is a crime nove about Cambodia in the mid-nineties, a broken country, what happens to those trapped between two periods of history, the choices they make, what they do to survive.
It’s available here in digital format for $4.99 and hard copy for $10 plus postage.… Read more
Noir Con or bust
As if I don’t have enough going on crime fiction-wise at the moment, with my debut novel Ghost Money and the upcoming launch of Crime Factory’s all Australian crime antho, Hard Labour, I’ll be attending Noir Con in the city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, in early November.
Noir Con is a biennial three day festival of noir crime writing and culture. Philadelphia is a fitting host city, being the birth place of the influential noir writer David Goodis, author of Dark Passage, Street of No Return and Shoot the Piano Player, amongst many other novels.
The best way to get a feel for Noir Con is to check out the program, which you can find here along with an interview with the mastermind behind the event, Lou Boxer.
Among the writers attending I’m keen to see are Megan Abbott, Vicki Hendricks, Lawrence Block and Wallace Stroby. I’m also looking forward to checking out the authors I haven’t heard of, as well as meeting some of the people I’ve been communicating with for a while now on social media.
In the lead up to Noir Con I’ll be spending a week and a half in New York, a city I have never been too but always wanted to see.… Read more
Posted in Crime fiction, Megan Abbott, Noir Con, Noir fiction
Tagged David Goodis, Ghost Money, Lawrence Block, Megan Abbott, Noir Con, Vicki Hendricks, Wallace Stroby