Tonight (Wednesday July 8th) I'll be reading at Dave Torrans' No Alibis Bookshop on Botanic Avenue in Belfast at 6:30 pm for the British and Irish launch of 50 Grand. If you've been to one of my readings at No Alibis before, you'll know the drill. There probably isn't going to be much actual reading. I'll be spinning some old nonsense about something and there will be a Q&A which will be your opportunity to heckle me and complain about the swearing, violence and endings to my books....
It should be fun, but if that's not incentive enough, there will be booze.
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Oh and before anybody asks, no it ain't soft porn, its Klimt's Water Serpents II.
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So the Klimt is a coded message that there really will be nude interpretive dance? I urge anyone who has the faintest chance of getting there to go and find out. Oh, and buy a copy of the book while you're there. You won't be disappointed. Well, you will if you think it has anything to do with Klimt, but otherwise...
Have fun.
Klimt is a favorite of my wife and I. Congrats on the UK release. I'll be making my published debut here shortly, as I have a segment in an upcoming Hardboiled crime fiction magazine. My first chapter of Time and Tide, which you read most of on Dec's site. Not sure which month yet. Now if those darn agents would start liking my work enough...
Sorry I made that all about me, mate. Congrats on the release. I wish I could be there.
Man, wish I had an extra ticket to Ireland. Someday I will. I like Klimt's work too, but I thought the movie with Malkovich kind of sucked. Did you see that one? Pretty solid cast but a little too out there for me. Have fun at the booktalk. Sounds great.
i'm going to miss this one. hope it goes well.
i picked up a copy of 50 grand from david recently, looking forward to reading it.
Allen McKay
Well, it will all be over now. Hope you had a good time and punched Gerard on the arm for me. Actually, I asked him to do the same to you, so if there as an unseemly scuffle, my apologies.
I always thought D. Torrans' taste in decoration ran more to Early Columbian, specifically the Peter Falk period.
And those gorgeous prints/lithographs that he wouldn't let me buy or steal? I bought a calendar instead that has reproductions of them.
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I await with baited* breath an in-depth report of the evening.
* Accept the inevitable, Peter. The spelling purists have de facto admitted defeat on this one.
Adrian -
Hope the reading went well, brother. Can't wait to hear about it.
A very quick update from me and more when I get back to Melbourne:
Good crowd as always at No Alibis and then Dave, myself, Ger Brennan, Stuart Neville and Colin Bateman when drinking at a nice pub around the corner. I cut out before midnight because I had a 6 a.m. flight and Bateman came with me because, well I guess because he's a lightweight, but Stuart and Ger where still there when we left.
I was talking to someone from The Observer yesterday who is doing a big review on Ghosts of Belfast - she said that it's an amazing book so I really will have to read that one. Stuart BTW is a personal friend of James Ellroy who also loves his work. Bateman doesnt need any plugs from me.
Geez, you're not staying long, are you?
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Peter
I'm already gone. I'm in the airport at Kuala Lumpur at the moment. I'm going to nag Brennan to post some pics cos I know he took some.
And before you ask I think it was Bass, which is acceptable.
oh and Garv was supposed to come down but there was a death in the family. Still next time.
Bass, huh? Declan Burke once vowed death before Harp or something similarly drastic, but I took a picture of him with a bottle of the stuff in his hand at Bouchercon in Baltimore.
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Seana
The nude interpretive dancing did not alas pan out. There was a strong family presence there so I had to abandon that plan. You could see the disappointment on people's faces.
Liam
Bon chance with that mate. And next time we'll hook, maybe if I make it back to the Tattered Cover.
HB
Sorry to hear that because I love Malkovich's work. Its hard to capture the life of an artist, almost impossible, but they do keep trying dont they?
Thanks for dropping by Allen
Mike
There was no scuffling but we did comically sit at a round table with very low chairs around so it was like little kids at a wedding. Bateman in particular got a lot of mileage out of that.
Peter
Colin Bateman actually has a very interesting Peter Falk story which unfortunately I cannot repeat here.
Marco
Not much to report. We did the reading, we went for a few beers, I had to leave first because I was on the first flight out. Although I did heroically push the midnight hour.
Brian
There's a wee bit more in the post above (hey see how my Belfast accent has come roaring back?)
Four Northern Irish crime writers walk into a pub.
It's either a joke or an historic occasion. Although the tiny chairs would make one lean toward the first, I'll go with the second. I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall, though I probably wouldn't have understood the half of it, and the half I did understand would probably have been too bawdy for me anyway.
Can you not repeat it here? for reasons of decency, or libel?
I notice that "wee" is said throughout the north. Garbhan Downey's daughter, eager to explain a game she had enjoyed in school, said, "Can I give you a wee lesson?" and then launched into some hodgepodge explanation of no game that had ever been played on this earth. It was a highlight of my trip. Aye.
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Peter
Well its Colin's story and yes it is libellous. Stuart had the best story of the night about a famous writer and sadly I cant repeat that either, in fact I'm not even going to mention the subject of the story.
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