“May you live in interesting times” is an ancient Chinese curse… well, this has certainly been an interesting and varied week for me, although I am happy to relate, not too badly cursed… At 2am on Tuesday, fuelled by a large vodka martini followed by copious quantities of a fabulous Mersault, and accompanied by…
I have always had an absolute terror of heights, so you might be able to understand my frame of mind yesterday, when I arrived at Shoreham Power Station to do some research for a key scene in the next Roy Grace novel, Dead Man’s Grip, involving a secret tunnel under Shoreham Harbour, to be told…
In the week I’ve just heard that Dead Like You is No 1 again in paperback fiction, meaning it will now have spent 4 weeks at No 1 in the UK this year (!!), I’ve also learned the book has been shortlisted for the 2010 Galaxy Book Awards, under the “Popular Fiction” section. The full…
I’ve received the wonderful news that the paperback of Dead Like You has gone straight to No 1 on the official UK bestseller list after only three days of being on sale. This means the book has done a double whammy this year!!! In May we went straight to No 1 in hardback fiction after…
A quick round up of some appearances I’ll be doing in the South East of England to celebrate the paperback publication of Dead Like You: On Tuesday 19th October at 8.30pm – I’ll be speaking about ‘Dead Like You’ at the Guildford Book Festival in the Electric Theatre in conversation with Peter Guttridge (another Sussex…
After two years of trusty service, I’m upgrading to a newer model of my MacBook Pro. I always get sentimental when I change computer, and this one has accompanied me all over the world and I’ve written my last two novels plus my novella The Perfect Murder on it. As I am the co-Patron of…
I attended the splendid memorial service for my great friend, Russell Ash, last Wednesday, and there was a good write up on it that appeared in online publishing magazine BookBrunch. Many thanks for their permission to reproduce it here. Russell Ash – finding the fun in everything Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:16 Friends from across…
I’ve started a new section on my website called the Peter James Readers Hall Of Fame. It’s a selection of photographs sent to me by you, my readers, either reading a Peter James book in an usual, artistic or amusing way or location, or a fun picture of one of my books, or of something…
Apologies for being remiss with my blog – have been on a book promo tour in New Zealand and Australia and finally heading home now. Managed to avoid the perils of the Christchurch earthquake (but was there in March…) and managed to avoid being poisoned, stung or eaten in Australia. Read the charming statistic that…
Some of you may have read in my May 6th, 2010, blog (http://blog.peterjames.com/2010/05/now-you-seafood.html) the grim tale of the car that was pulled out of Shoreham Harbour, ten years ago, which had been underwater for an estimated four weeks. Inside were a lobster, a plump eel and what appeared on first inspection to be a football.…