 Okay, off with the old, on with the new. Enough of this sabbatical business. Work awaits. It’s not so easy getting back to writing fiction when you’ve set it aside for a while, at least that’s how it appears, but I do seem to have started something which feels as if it might grow into a novel. It even has a title. Good Bait. (Borrowed, as some of you will surely know, from the Tadd Dameron tune that was recorded by, among others, Dizzy Gillespie.) Two principal characters, I think: Trevor Cordon, the Cornish policeman from Far Cry, and Karen Shields, Detective Chief Inspector in the Met, who has featured in both Ash & Bone and Cold in Hand. Missing people, murder, double-cross and betrayal in both high and low places – you know the kind of thing.
While that’s all stewing, what other treats are there in store June sees last year’s new novel, Far Cry, published in hardcover in the States by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and in paperback in this country by Arrow – April, 1st the date for that, no foolin’. Then, on June 3rd, Random House are bringing out, simultaneously as a William Heinemann hardback and an Arrow paperback, A Darker Shade of Blue, which collects together all of the short stories I’ve written since 2002’s Now’s the Time. All eighteen of them. Great covers, too - see below.
Meanwhile, a rather interesting, if I do say so myself, print interview - John Harvey on Lost Children, Western Movies and Rhythmic Prose - has been posted on Julia Buckley's Mysterious Musings blog: you can link to it from my blog (what d'you mean, you didn't know about my blog?) http://mellotone70up.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/harvey-speaks/ Since I shall be continuing with my History of Art studies at Birkbeck as well as working on the new book (to say nothing of getting to watch Notts County & Spurs as often as I can) I’m going to be doing less events this year than last. Just two, currently – see the Events page on the web site or blog – though Bouchercon in San Francisco in October remains a possibility.
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