I have a new article online over at SleuthSayers. In this one I talk about my latest short story and motives to kill for.

The Mystery in the Library crew at Whangaparāoa Library. We had a great panel discussion yesterday (Sat 23rd May) on the craft of crime fiction. Big crowd turned out to join us.

I guested on MoreFM promoting the crime/mystery writers' panel discussion: CRIME BY THE COASTLINE, Mystery in the Library series (MITL), May 23rd 2026, Whangaparāoa Library.

Fantastic mystery author panel in Brokenwood (aka Warkworth) on Wednesday night (May 13th).

Do clouds ever look at people and say, "Oh, that one looks like a refridgerator"?

I'll be in Brokenwood (aka Warkworth) next Wednesday (May 13) with a fantastic set of fellow mystery authors for a lively panel discussion on the craft of murder and mayhem. Come along and join us!

I've been mostly offline for the last couple of months (real life interrupts), so I missed this when it came out. A review of 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘿𝙀 𝙈𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝘽𝙀 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋𝙋𝙀𝘿! Thank you, @mkinberg.bsky.social

My latest short story (a wee tale of murder and mayhem in London and Edinburgh in 1949) appears in the March/April 2026 Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

Out with the old, in with the new. Good luck to us all!

Today's entertainment. A Hammer classic.

My book is launching tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

I have a new short story out 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩 (𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝). It appears today in a new Los Angeles-centric anthology of crime/mystery stories. This is a special publication: All royalties from the sales of the book will be donated to the California Community Foundation's Wildfire Recovery Fund.

Halloween seems an appropriate day to announce the launch of my book. 🙂 Do come along!

My band has released a new song. #musiciansky #musicsky #music #musicianfeed #rockmusic

Grrr. 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

COVER REVEAL 😃 (publication is soon) 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!

One of my favourite parts of London is Hampstead. Here's a short little piece (a time capsule, now) by John Mortimer about his home town.

My story, MURDER IN F-SHARP, appears in this issue. On sale now. "𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."

Everyone is worried about AI. I’m more concerned with what the other vowels are up to.

Pro tip: Don't put animals in a zoo, then you won't have to feed them pets to simulate "the wild."

Elementar, mein lieber Watson.

The revolution will not be televised. But there will be merch.

Interesting.

It's starting to get exciting. 😀 My first Mean City novel, THE BRIDE MUST BE STOPPED! is only a couple of months away...

We had a wonderful time at Whangaparāoa Library for Saturday's Mystery at the Library event ("Crime by the Coastline"). A criminally great discussion on the craft of crime fiction writing.

If you're in Auckland next weekend, drop by the library in Whangaparaoa for a fun afternoon of mystery writers talking about the craft of mystery writing. See you there!

Cool news no. 2 this week! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology has received an Anthony Award nomination for Best Anthology! (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.)

Cool news! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology received the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology! My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.

I know it's perfectly fine, but when writing in NZ English, I am so wanting to change that verb to "centimetred."

Saturday afternoon at the Whangaparāoa library with one of New Zealand's finest writers, Graham Reid. Wonderful.

Saturday. Writing. I see it's taken two months to write 11k. WIP is currently 62k and change. Onward. The plot is thickening. #writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife

Grrr. LibGen has stolen (scraped, pirated) several of my published short stories to develop their dataset. Meta (Zuckerberg) doesn't give a damn about copyright. Apparently, Meta considered paying authors, but then decided, fuck it, let's just steal it.

Noir. Palms.

I would actually start watching Bond movies again if this were a thing. (Yeah, it's from The Onion.)

Dorset, England, 1938.

Me, today.

A mystery writer, who is, himself, a mystery.

He should have named it "Gulf of the Americas" to be more accurate and inclusive, but then, inclusivity isn't his thing. It's been known as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years, and 400 years from now, it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.

Reasonably accurate.

I just learned that the MURDER, NEAT anthology (published last year) has been short-listed for the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology. (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.) Nice news on a Sunday morning. 😃

Just updated my copy of Final Draft. I was on version 8. Latest is 13. Yeah, it's been a while since I worked on a screenplay.

The Devils (1971) - Ken Russell. Based on the book The Devils of Loundun by Aldous Huxley. I've seen it only once (in a cinema in the early 1980s). Unforgettable. One of those films that burns itself into your memory.