Tag: blog
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THE MAKING OF THE CASE OF THE CURIOUS CLIENT BOOK TRAILER, November 2019
Celebrating the 1st anniversary since its release November 2019 marks the first anniversary of The Case of the Curious Client book trailer’s release. To celebrate, I’ve a Director’s Commentary for you to watch and enjoy, as well as give further details from behind-the-scenes. My motivation for making a book trailer…I wanted to make a trailer to introduce…
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WHERE DID “COPPER” COME FROM? September, 2019
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The 190th Anniversary of the Founding of the Metropolitan Police Force The 29th September 2019 will mark the 190th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel. It’s difficult for many to imagine a world in which there’s no police. Almost more difficult to imagine is a society so resistant to…
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GREAT CONNECTIONS AT THE UK INDIE LIT FEST, August 2019
On Saturday 27th July I was one of the 30+ attending independent authors at the UK Indie Lit Fest at the Kala Sangam Arts Centre, Bradford. This was my second stint as an attending author and I have to say I enjoyed it even more than I did the first time. I met many familiar…
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BOW STREET SOCIETY AT MIDFEST, July 2019
22nd-23rd June 2019 Subscribers to the Gaslight Gazette and followers of my social media posts will know I planned to have a stall at this year’s Midlands History Festival (Midfest). Held at White’s Nurseries on Clay Lane in Earl’s Barton, Northamptonshire, the festival lasted for an entire weekend. Each camp of reenactors remained “in period” for the…
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WRITING NOTES: Historical Figures in Fiction, June 2019
As someone who writes mysteries set in Victorian Era London I often ask myself this question: should I include a real-life figure from that period? There are certainly many I could choose from. I could opt for an individual the majority of readers have heard of—such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen etc.—or a relative unknown, such as…
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REVIEW: SCOTLAND YARD The Complete Series, May 2019
Nowadays we’re accustomed to seeing (at least) 30 minutes of adverts (aka commercials) for products and other movies when we go to the cinema. In the early to mid-twentieth century though cinema goers would be treated to a “B feature” in addition to the top billed film. They may have also seen a news reel…
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ANALYSIS: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, January 2019
Starring the late great Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe this series originally aired on the 22nd April 2001 in the USA and ran until 2002. It was also directed and produced by Maury Chaykin’s co-star Timothy Hutton who played Nero Wolfe’s street wise assistant Archie Goodwin. Those who have been watching the Netflix series The Haunting…
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JACK THE RIPPER CRIME CONFERENCE, October 2018
On Saturday 29th September I attended my first ever Jack the Ripper Crime Conference at the Arbor City Hotel in Whitechapel (where else?) in London. Like (almost) everyone on the face of the planet I’d heard about the (still) unsolved crimes of Jack the Ripper. I’d conducted some research into the early lives of some…