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#LitChat
Tonight (Friday, March 30th) I’m putting on my grownup’s hat to be guest host in a moderated one-hour Twitter conversation about writing in general and The Bedlam Detective in particular. Anyone can join in and I hope you will, or it’ll be a pretty lonely hour for me. You can follow the conversation using the…
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Stasio on Crime
The Bedlam Detective reviewed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times: “Gallagher’s detective is a man of fine character and strong principles, but he’s upstaged by the monsters he pursues. Watching Becker track down a pedophile is gratifying, but it can’t beat the sight of 20 overburdened boats hurtling through white-water rapids or Sir…
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The Reprisalizer
Anyone familiar with British 70s paperback series, and particularly those from the New English Library, will know exactly what’s going on here. This spoof site is the brainchild of British comedy actor Matthew Holness, whose previous comic creation was horror writer Garth Marenghi, the “self-appointed mastermind author” and writer, producer and director of Garth Mareghi’s…
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The Kindness of Strangers
They don’t sign the notices over at Kirkus Reviews so I don’t know how better to describe this one… “Gallagher has been called a horror writer, a fantasy writer, a non-fantasy writer, a writer for big screens and smaller ones, a writer whose considerable talent has enabled him to slip in and out of genres…
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Savage Season Interview
From an interview just posted on the Savage Season Books website: “I’ve never consciously scheduled my career to the extent that I could say, Oh, yeah, I put this aside and focused on that. If you do this for a living then you’re relentlessly pushing to do all you can all the time in whatever…
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I got piles
Barnes & Noble, 53rd and 3rd, New York With thanks to Stephanie. You can order from B&N online here, where they’re also selling the eBook for the Nook and taking pre-orders for the audio version.
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Murder Rooms: The Ultimate Collection
If you were planning to order this DVD set, hold off; there’s a problem with it. Instead of the promised widescreen remastering, the discs contain stretched and distorted ‘fullscreen’ images of very poor quality. Even at 4:3 the transfer is pretty awful. My set’s going back, pronto. I’ve emailed the distributor and I’ll pass on…
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The Movies, Mr Fairbanks, and Me
Looking back, 1977 was a key year for me. I didn’t rocket to fame, I didn’t take British culture by storm – though I’m sure those were the dreams I was having at the time. What I did in ’77 was to stage a play with a local amateur company (a talented bunch who deserved…
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And so to Bedlam
No, I don’t plan to quote every review I get – not least because it’s asking for trouble and an inevitable eventual slap from someone somewhere – but thanks to Pamela O’Sullivan for making my weekend with this contribution to The Library Journal. Gallagher, Stephen. The Bedlam Detective. Crown Pub. Group. Feb. 2012. c.320p. ISBN…
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Back to the Murder Rooms (2)
My daughter Ellen, known to the Twitterverse as @audreydeuxpink, had a small speaking part in my Murder Rooms episode and has been blogging about her experience of the shoot. Check out the middle picture in the post below – that’s her in the doorway of the travelling-show caravan, between Warwick Davies and Charles Edwards. You…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
