Recent content by MikeC

I am not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I have also stuck the link up on my blog here on the forums, The Misanthropist's Muse, so here goes: Follow the link to the Newsjack site for full submission details. It is in the UK but it looked like submissions could be by email. OK...

Huh? GMTA? The whole Martin Beck series was actually just reprinted here in the UK so they have been available in the book shops again. When I say "was" I mean within the last couple of years.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone.

I have become a bit of an extremist of late. I swing from (positive) noir, when I can find it, to comedy novels like Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen. Ultra-dark to ultra-light without much in between. So, people like Charles Bukowski, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Knut Hamsun, Ivan Turgenev, Peter...

Oops. I am an oaf, because I didn't use my loaf. Sorry, I will pay more attention next time.

Libra your a genius. Those were the names I couldn't think off, hardly surprising really.

Cheering me up! Boy, that could be a challenge too far. But thanks for the welcome, anyhow.

In my head I am incredibly prolific. My problem is getting it from mind to paper (or screen). As for too prolific I don't really see how you can be. It is one of those personal things: what is right for you is right for you. As art is the most individualistic form of expression then what others...

Actually there was a better series of crime novels about a Swedish cop called "Martin Beck". There were ten books in series, written by a husband and wife team whose names escape me without going to Google for them. There are some remarkable similarities between the Beck series and Wallender's...

All true,SFG75. But at least in a book store you know you are walking out with the book you want. Buy from Amazon and you can be in for a surprise when some book (eventually)turns up a week later that you never ordered.

Literature's most miserable reader has arrived. I thought everyone here looked far too happy so I have come to depress everybody with my melancholic, if not outright misanthropic, tendencies. I've got my blog up and my newbie post. All I need now is to be able to think of something intelligent...