Retcon. That’s a relatively newish term that’s a contraction for “retroactive continuity.” Typically you’re going to run into this when a long-running print or film series reckons it’s time to inject fresh blood or your lead actor has to be recast. Take the current Bond flicks as voguish example: Daniel Craig enters as a tyro, … Continue reading THE (IM)PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY by Craig McDonald
Students, It’s Showtime!
Jackie Mallon, fashion designer and the author of Silk For The Feed Dogs, proudly presents the accomplishments of her students. "Silk for the Feed Dogs, set in the international fashion industry, follows a young graduate as she strives for success while evading the snapping jaws of those villainous and ravenous “feed dogs,” gatekeepers to her … Continue reading Students, It’s Showtime!
War is over… not quite yet
“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.” ―Richard Price Read here an excerpt from FRANCESCA, when the heroine’s home town of Dili, capital of East Timor, was invaded by the Indonesian army:
Father figure: the man behind Hector Lassiter
"Con men: I love them dearly, and in an admittedly wrong-headed way. I have since I was a kid." Craig McDonald about the man who raised Hector Lassiter. Read more: http://craigmcdonaldbooks.blogspot.ie/2014/08/father-figure-man-behind-hector-lassiter.html
TOROS & TORSOS: surrealist art and murder in our time?
The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth. "Toros & Torsos" spins on the premise that surrealist art may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved crimes of the 20th Century. Life imitating art… art imitating death, … Continue reading TOROS & TORSOS: surrealist art and murder in our time?
The Rap Sheet competition: Forever’s Just Pretend
"While no overt historical personages haunt the pages of Forever’s Just Pretend, the crimes that drive the plot are based on a real cycle of murders and arsons that rocked 1920s America. Now, here’s a challenge to all you Lassiter series readers: the first three people who can correctly identify the inspiration for the “Key … Continue reading The Rap Sheet competition: Forever’s Just Pretend
More short fiction from Colin O’Sullivan
Read Colin's short stories WATCHER, PIRANHAS and SEGUES here: http://www.verbicidemagazine.com/tag/colin-osullivan/
For Hector Lassiter’s fans: the first chapter of RHAPSODY IN BLACK
Over the years, Craig McDonald has been asked if he would write a Hector Lassiter novel in the sense of creating a novel BY Hector Lassiter. Here, for the first time, is the first chapter of Hector's OWN debut novel, RHAPSODY IN BLACK, a novel that we see Hector drafting in ONE TRUE SENTENCE: http://bit.ly/1kUhCe6
Indonesia remains true to form over French journalists in West Papua
Why Mayo's novel FRANCESCA is still relevant despite being set in 1970s
Travel with our books
Travel to Ireland, Indonesia and Greece with our books KILLARNEY BLUES, FRANCESCA and THE LAST ISLAND featured on http://www.TripFiction.com
The Last Island reaches #1 in Australia
David Hogan's novel THE LAST ISLAND is #1 in Literary Fiction and in Contemporary Fiction on http://www.amazon.com.au!
Kat’s Italian Dictionary
Kat Connelly has travelled far from her days on the farm in rural Ireland. She now finds herself chasing a career in fashion through the cobblestone roads of Milan. She’s picked up some Italian vocabulary along the way. Here’s a bit of what she’s learned: Ragazzi (men): Enticing creatures who roam the streets of … Continue reading Kat’s Italian Dictionary
“The Last Island” is a Finalist in the San Diego Book Awards
Congratulations to David Hogan whose novel "'The Last Island" is a Finalist in the San Diego Book Awards (Category: Published – Contemporary Fiction). The winners will be annouced on the 21st of June. Fingers crossed for David!
Turkish translation rights sold to SILK FOR THE FEED DOGS by Jackie Mallon
Turkish publishing house Nar Kitap, partner of Marie Claire Magazine in Turkey, has just acquired translation rights to Jackie Mallon's wondefully insightful novel about the world of high fashion that the author knows intimately.
Colin in the news!
Colin O'Sullivan author of Killarney Blues, was featured recently in Kerry's Eye, County Kerry’s leading newspaper.
Jackie in the News!
Jackie Mallon, author of Silk for the Feed Dogs, was featured recently in the Sunday World, Ireland's largest selling Sunday newspaper. To read an excerpt of Silk for the Feed Dogs click here.
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