Gunshine State
Fast-paced thriller Gunshine State, by Andrew Nette, opens with a heist gone wrong and heads downhill from there.
Gary Chance is a former soldier, sometime bouncer, and generally unsuccessful crook. Whether through back luck or bad choice …
There’ve been way more than ten, of course. But these things are always hard to figure. When you’re young it is too easy to be blown away. One lacks all those bitter years, the accretion of protective layers – the …
I’ve won money on the Oscars for four years straight. Let me tell you how it’s done.
Cynically. That’s the first and most important element. Stop reading now if you’re looking for insights into film-making, or acting, or virtuosity on …
Introduction
Sunshine Noir delivers social realism rather than the stylized realism of US noir. Grit is embedded under the fingernails, not merely sprinkled around the scene as an aesthetic choice. Sunshine Noir takes place in the outback under an unblinking …
I wrote an article on this four years ago, barely a year into writing, just after I’d finished the draft of my first novel. In my unrestrained neophyte enthusiasm, I offered fourteen suggestions, which I will reassess shortly.
But …
Read about 45 again this year, not including all the dreary academic palaver related to my doctorate. Watched way, way too much film and television. I’ll stick to books here, other than to say I very much enjoyed Blade Runner …
Walking out of The Last Jedi, sometime past midnight, I had a moment of clarity. I was done with Star Wars. The emotional investment I’d made, kept making, through horrific prequels and then through better, though blander recent Star Wars, …
“With Britain’s mouth watering over Beijing’s investment cheques and the rest of the West dizzy from its own civil wars among political correctness, Muslims and Donald Trump, Western governments, media and liberals see the world with blurred vision. ‘Turning and …
Then there was the time Donald Trump cost me a book deal.
The feedback from one of the major publishers came in via my agent. The editor praised the high quality of the prose, the East Asian noir setting, and …
200 shots fired in my ongoing campaign to have you motherfuckers read one of my stories. Not many have hit: 14, to be precise, new sales*.
Good sales, most of them, to be sure – many professional, six to the …
