Happy New Year to all my readers, friends & colleagues – I think 2010 is going to be a good year. If the Gods smile kindly on us it might be the year when the Poet & The Murderer finally becomes the movie that many people said it was destined […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
This is to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Our festivities started on Tuesday, with a party we gave at the Frontline Club in London, a meeting place for journalists & foreign correspondents, a stone’s throw from Paddington Station. The bad weather meant that some people couldn’t come, including […]
Merry Christmas !
Woke up to a hard frost, the river in front of my cottage slowed to a trickle and patches of ice here and there. In eastern England there are 8 inches of snow. In America, where I spend half the year, snow is a familiar event. I was in Ohio […]
In The Bleak Midwinter ….
Not much to report today, except that I am still recovering from a few days of hands-on parenting again, helping my son make the transition from New York. 23 year olds are a mass of contradictions: they want your help, they don’t want your help, they need you, they don’t […]
Cheques and Mortality
We are racing towards Christmas, I realised this morning it is on Friday week, in other words: just around the corner. Much to do before then, incl.putting up the Christmas tree I bought last week but I was in London with my son, helping him make the transition from New […]
Christmas, fathers & sons; & a death in Vienna
A rushed day today, hammering down the M5 from Herefordshire to pick up my son in Taunton, who arrived in London this morning from New York. It’s a time of change for him, starting a new life in London, with lots of uncertainty. I feel emotionally shredded, worrying about him; […]
The Loneliness of The Long Distance Father
The Poet & The Murderer is now available as an e-book on Kindle @ http://tinyurl.com/yhyvmbf).
The Poet & The Murderer/Kindle Edition
Many people, from the managing editor of The New Yorker to readers and critics, have said: Oh, that would make a great movie! I always felt it would just take the right person to fall in love with the book and see how to do it. Enter, Lorrie Sheehy, a […]
The Poet & The Murderer: screenplay
Hail, the digital revolution! I am very excited to announce that The Poet & The Murderer, with a new endorsement by film-maker, Errol Morris ( ” masterful” ), is now available in a new, revised ebook edition @ http://tinyurl.com/yewque7 In a few days, it will also be available @ Kindle.
The Poet & The Murder new ebook edition
Welcome to my new website – it”s still very much a work in progress, so any comments/feedback will be greatly appreciated. My next post will be about the story behind the Poet & The Murderer, a two year investigative journey that took me from Long Island to Utah, to Las […]