FISHY BUSINESS, THESE AWARDS…

Well, I made a promise to you all that if I won the Specsavers ITV3 People’s Bestseller Dagger Award, then I’d celebrate by buying fish and chips for any of you who turned up on Brighton Pier the following day! To my total and utter amazement, beating the other shortlisted authors, Lee Child, David Baldacci,…

Peter James Newsletter October 2011

Hello again, A sooner-­than-­usual follow up to my last newsletter, but there is a lot happening and on top of that, voting for the ITV 3 People’s Bestseller Dagger Award closes at the end of next week on Oct 7th. I’ve just found out that in addition to voting 5 times with each email address,…

TORONTO REVISITED

I’ve just been in one of my favourite cities in the world, Toronto, promoting Dead Man’s Grip and advance promoting Perfect People. I lived here in the 1970s and it has changed a lot – back then you could not get a drink on a Sunday! This is the very charming blog of a budding…

Peter James Newsletter September 2011

Hello again, Firstly thanks so much for all your comments, I’m really pleased you like this new-­look newsletter. The big, televised awards ceremony that I’ve been shortlisted for, the ITV3 People’s Bestseller Dagger Award will be televised on October 11th in the UK, not 7th as I previously wrote. Apologies. Thank you so much for…

PRICELESS READER’S LETTER!

I love getting letters from my readers, mostly truly lovely ones, occasionally an expert in a field correcting me on a fact I have got wrong, or someone pointing out a continuity error. Every now and then I get one I consider to be a real gem, such as the one below which I thought…

BOOKED ON MY BIRTHDAY…

Well, I guess not many people end up in the stocks on their birthday…! But there I was, nobly on parade on Brighton seafront at 10am on a Sunday morning in order to formally open the Sussex Police, Fire and Ambulance Services 999 fun day, in aid of the quite wonderful Martlets Hospice in Brighton…