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ollated all the reviews meaning that the uk version now lists no less than five of your reviews in a row click here to view them now that your stalking is laid bare for all to see i thought i might as well address it thing is you didn t make it hard to tell all those screen names were really the one person if anyone clicks on the profile page for each of them cormac mac noir fan and crime lover there s also crime queen though gender issues aside he she didn t review my novel yet but i m sure it s coming they ll see that you have been reviewing a strikingly similar range of books amongst other obvious trends they ll also see that you ve taken an equal dislike to my fellow crime authors tom piccirilli and laura wilson again posting multiple reviews of books you don t seem to have read as well as the venerable broadcaster terry wogan it s obvious what you ve got against my novel and i ve a good idea why you ve taken umbrage with mr piccirilli and ms wilson but that does leave me with one question and i am posting this in the hope that i might discover the answer my question is simply this what on god s green earth did terry wogan ever do to you best wishes stuart labels amazon baboon s arse life reviews posted by stuart neville at 10 46 pm 20 comments coming soon requiems for the departed anthology thursday april 08 2010 9 42 pm requiems for the departed irish crime irish myths it has been said before that every story has already been told maybe so but if you ve got the gift of the gab you can tell the same tale as often as you like and still give it a life of its own every time requiems for the departed flaunts that gift seventeen times over with top shelf stories from ken bruen maxim jakubowski stuart neville brian mcgilloway adrian mckinty sam millar john grant garry kilworth and many more the children of conchobar are back to their old mischievous ways ancient celtic royalty druids and banshees are set loose in the new irish underbelly with murder and mayhem on their minds edited by gerard brennan and mike stone requiems for the departed contains seventeen short stories inspired by irish mythology from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business published by morrigan books 1st june 2010 requiems for the departed stories queen of the hill stuart neville hound of culann tony black hats off to mary garry kilworth sliabh ban arlene hunt red hand of ulster sam millar she wails through the fair ken bruen a price to pay maxim jakubowski red milk t a moore bog man john mcallister the sea is not full una mccormack the druid s dance tony bailie children of gear neville thompson diarmid and grainne adrian mckinty the fortunate isles dave hutchinson first to score garbhan downey fisherman s blues brian mcgilloway the life business john grant for more info visit www morriganbooks com labels gerard brennan morrigan books requiems for the dead short stories posted by stuart neville at 9 42 pm 7 comments on recognition or otherwise and why my diamond shoes are too tight i did a live radio interview today with wendy austin on bbc radio ulster s talkback programme i ve long since gotten over any nerves that i might have had in earlier radio appearances so even when we couldn t get the microphones to come on in the remote studio i was in armagh ms austin was in belfast i didn t panic you can hear the results here if you so wish anyway right up front wendy rattled off a list of quotes from the great reviews i ve had on both sides of the atlantic as well as the best of 2009 nods from both the new york and la times as well as mentioning that the ghosts of belfast a k a the twelve has been optioned for a movie wendy asked how all this recognition felt and at first i could only answer not bad then on further consideration i made the point that recognition for one s writing is a wonderful thing and it s not entirely because of vanity though in all honesty that must be a part of it in reality it s more about insecurity i ve made this point repeatedly in interviews but it bears even more repeating in my experience writing seems like a completely ridiculous thing to waste one s time on to sit for hour upon hour staring delete as appropriate a at a blank screen b out the window c into space deleting more words than you leave on the page with no realistic prospect of anyone ever reading what you ve done is a completely daft thing to do there are so many things one could do instead clean the bathroom take a walk gather together bank statements and invoices for the accountant play grand theft auto 4 the list goes on but instead you sit there and grind it out word after word apart from the people i knew online in that clandestine way one knows people online i didn t tell anyone except a very close friend that i was writing i kept it secret even from my closest family members why because i was embarrassed if you come from the kind of working class background that i do intellectual and creative expression don t come as second nature and if like me you somehow get promoted from the working class educational stream to the lofty heights of a predominantly middle class grammar school by way of passing a few exams you re taught to keep your mouth shut and be grateful for the chance to study algebra in such a rarefied environment i ve told this story before on my blog but here it is again i spent my first two years of education at the little school on our housing estate that normally kept kids for three years because my reading was ahead of my classmates i was moved a year early to the big school in town on my first day there at the age of six the headmaster came around to see the new boy he said he d taught my dad years ago he asked me if i was as stupid as my father was this pretty much set the tone for the rest of my school life so when the observer or the daily mail or indeed the ny or la times heap praise upon my novel it s not just the massaging of my ego that i enjoy and of course i do enjoy that a lot i m only human after all but most of all it s the vindication it s knowing that i haven t wasted years of my life chasing a dream that i could never hope to make real it s realising that despite mr moffat dismissing me as just another dimwit from the estates i can prove that old bastard wrong and achieve something truly worthwhile something i can be proud of and the recognition doesn t have to come from a famous newspaper or a well known author i get more emails from readers than i can ever hope to reply to and they all make my day brighter if someone tells me they couldn t put the book down that it scared the bejesus out of them then fantastic if they tell me they learned something in the process then even better the great reviews on amazon mean a huge amount too both in the uk and the us but the shine can be dulled if you let it by a few people i ve had overwhelmingly positive feedback from irish americans who bought the ghosts of belfast for the obvious reasons many have told me they connected with the book in a very personal way and that s wonderful it would be easy to let a tiny minority of readers spoil that buzz when they express how much they dislike having their green tinted glasses dislodged but really what s the point if like one amazon com reviewer one of your main criticisms of the book is based on where i went to school and its sports curriculum how can i take your views seriously i didn t like my school either or its sports so what does that prove or if like a couple of amazon com critics you start throwing words like orange around then that says more about your prejudice and ignorance than it does about the book as soon as your review is tainted by sectarianism no matter how well informed about the land of your forefathers you might think you are i stop placing any value on your opinion and then there s the charmer who has so far placed six negative reviews under three different screen names across two editions of the ghosts of belfast the twelve spread between the uk and us amazon sites the same wannabe critic also has grudges against my friend tom piccirilli crime writer laura wilson and of all people the velvet voiced radio and television presenter terry wogan on the spectrum of offensiveness terry wogan is somewhere between vanilla ice cream and warm scones so i really can t imagine what he s done to upset this particular critic a few days ago i expressed a small amount of chagrin to my girlfriend about these minor blemishes on my otherwise shiny and bright critical landscape as girlfriends are wont to do she responded with some simple but truthful wisdom me complaining about such trivial annoyances is rather like that scene in friends where chandler says oh no my wallet s too small for my fifties and my diamond shoes are too tight yep she nailed it instructive constructive intelligent critique is a good thing affirmation from those who appreciate what you do is also great attacks from the ignorant and ill informed are nothing more than a minor annoyance like flies buzzing around the arse end of a cow so with joy in my heart here are a few other things that are currently floating my boat tomorrow night thursday 8th of april i will appear on the late late show with craig ferguson on cbs i ll post a youtube clip as soon as it s online so that even if you re not domiciled in the usa you can witness me blinking like a bunny in the headlights and mumbling incoherently on national television the ghosts of belfast is a finalist in the mystery thriller category of the la times book prize the winner will be announced at the la times festival of books where i ll be appearing on a panel with fellow nominees as well as signing at the mystery bookstore stand check my website over the next day or two for details the ghosts of belfast is also nominated for a spinetingler award you can vote here the audiobook of the ghosts of belfast has been awarded the earphones accolade by audiofile magazine in a rave review that described it as everything a listener could want from an audiobook and that s all for now i ll try not to leave it so long next time labels awards bbc craig ferguson la times late late show life prizes radio reviews the ghosts of belfast the twelve posted by stuart neville at 1 33 am 10 comments a tip for aspiring writers don t be a dick sunday january 17 2010 8 47 pm there s a publishing industry fact that blogging agents and editors have been telling us all along and in all my six months in print i have learned this to be true publishing is a very very small business everybody knows each other and everybody talks to each other if a junior editorial assistant at harper collins knows that famous author x has gas problems you can be sure that a senior editor at random house knows it too if you behave in such a way as to make a literary agent think you are rude arrogant stupid or even mentally unstable that reputation will spread and you will never shake it in other words if you act like a dick people will treat you like a dick the easy answer don t be a dick as some of you may have seen there has been a furore in recent days as a frustrated writer publicly vented their spleen decrying the role of the literary agent now and in the future that was foolish enough given that agents are treasured beyond all else by most published writers me included this particular frustrated writer took it a step further though by personally attacking a well established and respected agent in a lengthy blog post this was just a day or two after this same frustrated writer had a go at a blogging editor whom i consider a personal friend previously this same frustrated writer had posted another thinly veiled attack on another respected agent you see where this is going frustrated writer has now publicly attacked three well liked and respected publishing professionals now i don t imagine these three professionals are gossips but they don t need to be several other professionals have weighed into the mosh pit in defence of their colleagues because their colleagues are well liked and respected those other professionals will be very pissed off on their behalf and they will all talk about it to other colleagues and so on and so on throughout the industry what s more they will all remember for a very long time so what do you think the chances are of frustrated writer even getting a sniff of an offer of representation or a contract approximately nil i d say they could write a novel that combines all the commercial appeal of the da vinci code with the artistic value of crime and punishment and they would never sell it and it s not just because they offended some well liked and respected publishing professionals it s also because all publishing professionals choose the authors they want to work with based not just on the quality of writing but on how that author behaves if an author is rude arrogant stupid and or showing signs of mental instability on a public blog it s a pretty safe bet they re going exhibit those traits in their working relationships too and who wants to work with somebody like that incidentally i m not going to post a link to frustrated writer s diatribes because a i don t want to fuel their attention seeking fire b i don t want frustrated writer following the trail back here and stinking up my blog with their hateful crap and c there s a good chance you ve already seen it yesterday i posted the following question on twitter is there anything more pathetic than a bitter wannabe writer who blames the gatekeepers for their lack of publication it didn t stay up very long because my good friend betsy pointed out that it could sound more than a little snotty coming from someone who s been as fortunate as i have over the last two years and betsy was absolutely right it was a very glib comment so i removed it i ve reposted it here because i want to expand on it a little i ve been incredibly lucky in my writing career so far i got my share of rejections and i have one and three quarter novels stored away that ll never see daylight but i didn t struggle for years and years manuscript after manuscript rejection slip after rejection slip i know some excellent writers who have i also know some writers who have been published by major houses no less but have found themseles used abused chewed up and spat out again with their novels never having been given a fair chance i even know some writers who blog publicly about those experiences don t sugar coat it and point out the flaws in what everybody knows is a far from perfect industry but they don t get personal they don t indulge in bitter rants and they don t come off as borderline psychotic fools by announcing that their work is simply too artistically challenging for bottom line obsessed publishers in other words they don t act like dicks so that s my tip for all aspiring writers in 2010 as well as all the usual write lots rewrite more get critique keep trying and so on and so on that s my cur...