I am thrilled and delighted to announce that Thirty-Three Days has reached the final 18 books in the judging for the 2019 RONE Awards in the Thriller/Suspense category. RONE stands for Reward of Novel Excellence and is conducted by InD'Tale Magazine.The first of three final rounds have completed and I am eagerly waiting news to [...]
I'd like to extend my very special thanks to Stardance Media for making this awesome trailer for You Tube. Check it out, please let me know what you think: https://youtu.be/Bt96AYSf18s
I am always humbled, and very grateful to readers who like my books enough to post reviews, here are a few posted recently: Darren rated it it was amazing I got this as a e book from net galley. I enjoyed reading it. It had a good story to it. I liked the variety of characters in [...]
Glimpse, The Beautiful Deaths (book 2 The Deadly Glimpses) will be released on the 10th 0f April 2018 and is now available to pre-order via Amazon here: CLICK HERE I was asked, "Steve, why The Beautiful Deaths, death is never beautiful?" so it got me thinking. I wrote the following for a friend's blog post [...]
“So, what’s it all about?” Has there ever been a question designed to strike such fear into an author? I don’t think so. Don’t get me wrong, it’s wonderful when you’re asked when cornered at a party and you’ve gone to get your wife a drink because she is parched, or dining in a [...]
Being fiercely proud to be Australian, it's interesting that most of my sales, friends in the writing world, and of course my publisher, are American. Can I say, without sounding sucky, I love the American people, their values, and that in general, us Aussies are well accepted there. I also like some of the American [...]
It has been an amazing experience to have Thirty-Three Days go to an audio version in addition to paperback and E book. The narrator, Geoffrey Boyes has done a spectacular job and he has really brought my characters to life in a way I could not have imagined. It's wonderful too to have an Australian [...]
Fellow Wild Rose Press author Jennifer Wilke (https://jenniferwilck.blogspot.com) invited me to talk to her and her readers on her blog about the Glimpse Series, Memoir of a Serial Killer and how it all came about. Jennifer is a very talented author, and a lovely person who I recommend you read. For those who would like [...]
It is always humbling when a reader takes the time to email, or better still, post a review on Amazon, or Goodreads for one of my books. It takes many months from initial idea, through writing, then self editing and re-write rounds, submission to publisher, more editing rounds and finally - publication. Reviews are always [...]
Book 1: Three Deadly Glimpses now released 1999 in Perth, Australia, recently separated Sergeant Rick McCoy investigates the murder of a woman found dissected and packed inside a suitcase. With the approach of the new millennium, and the threat of computers shutting down worldwide, he reconciles with Juliet, but gets no closer to finding the [...]