Towering insights. Answers to the great questions of life. My short interview with Lucy Hay on her Criminally Good blog. Read it here

The Goodreads people have drawn five names from their virtual hat and it’s congratulations to Stephanie, Betty, Antoinette, Beryl, and Courtney. Signed copies of The Authentic William James are on their way. More Brooligan Press titles and promotions will be coming soon.

Goodreads Book Giveaway The Authentic William James by Stephen Gallagher Giveaway ends November 05, 2017. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway

As the $1.99 Bedlam Detective ebook promotion from Crown continues until the end of the week, here’s another story download offer for the coming weekend. Crown’s promotion is restricted to its own territories but the Kindle story offer will be worldwide. This one includes two short stories. Out of Bedlam is a Becker story originally…

For a limited period from October 22nd, and backed by an ad campaign on Bookbub, Random House will be cutting the price of The Bedlam Detective ebook edition to $1.99. No a bad curtain-raiser for this: Publication of The Authentic William James trade paperback edition is set for December in all territories. Copies for review…

Among the stuff that migrated to my loft after my father died: four scrapbooks of my press cuttings, compiled by my mother in those loose-leaf photo albums, the kind with a sticky page and a transparent overlay. She kept everything. Everything that her thoughtless son remembered to pass along, anyway. This morning I took them…

I did a meme

DigitalSpy reports that the unaired 2013 pilot for a modern reboot of The Saint will be available for streaming next month, although the site doesn’t yet specify where. It also attributes Simon West’s directing credit to Ernie Barbarash, for reasons that lie shrouded in mystery. I’ve known about this for a while, and I’ve been…

A supreme scholar, a gentle soul, and a great loss to the field and all who knew him. We met in the ’90s when Richard invited me over to Scarborough to talk about my Stoker-inspired project (then called Victorian Gothic, it would later become The Kingdom of Bones and the first of the Sebastian Becker…