ROBUST discussion

Hi. I write. Or, nowadays, I try to find time to write, what with all the reading, critiquing, reviewing, networking and ebook promoting I do. I have 2 ebooks and 1 single out there so far. I also have a short story in #1 or Noir Nation and will have another short in the upcoming Kindle All-Stars anthology.

Welcome to ROBUST, JJ.

Thanks, Andre.

Welcome to Ireland!

I think I spotted you in Dublin on Thursday. Check out
my blog.

http://bit.ly/JBT-YA

Welcome JJ!

JJ wrote: "I think I spotted you in Dublin on Thursday. Check out my blog.

http://bit.ly/JBT-YA"

I like leprechauns. They've had an affinity with me since I studied psychology under a Zulu witchdoctor.

Welcome.

Welcome, JJ, though I'm wondering if it's safe around here with another Irishman on the scene! ;)

Thanks y'all for those welcome messages. Andre: your book "Writing a Thriller" (third ed.) arrived in this morning's post. I was going to get back to my WIP, but I'll read the book first. :)

I was wondering which edition you bought, since the postage was so high.

Delighted to see you mention Victor Canning. I read lots of his books as a kid. I've forgotten them all, now. I've ordered a new edition of Brainbird Pattern.
Other forgotten/obscure thriller authors: Francis Clifford, John Creasey

Victor Canning! Hey! A distinguished style. And he did especially well in highlighting the amorality of the intelligence trade.

John Creasey was hardly obscure, though you're right, he's now forgotten. Under his own name and at least one pseudonym he published several crime novels a year for many years. He was a sort of British Georges Simenon. I think Creasey could stand being rediscovered for ebooks and a television series; it was good quality crime fiction.

One of the problems with a book reprinted so often as WRITING A THRILLER is that the examples given are by writers now out of print, or forgotten. Ebooks will in fact be a fix for that sort of problem. Bring on the new age!

I devoured John Creasey novels when I was a teenager (him and Arthur Upfield). I've probably read a whole lot more without realising they were his because he had so many pseudonyms that I would never have known. They never seemed to be the 'same' or formulaic as a lot of prolific authors tend to be.

I love Francis Clifford. If he was writing new stuff today he'd be selling millions, imo.