by Derek | Aug 14, 2020 | Memories, Writers Life, Writing
Three years ago today Death of a Devil was published. It was the third of my Danny Bird mysteries, and one of the hardest things I’d written up to that date. When Fahrenheit signed my first novel Death of a Diva they’d asked for – and been assured by me that I had in...
by Derek | Jul 10, 2020 | LGBTQI, Memories
I have Lots of Books out at the moment including the extremely limited edition Fahrenzine004 What Goes Around, but if you’ll excuse me for a moment I want to talk about something more than books. About someone more than books. July 10 1990 I went out with some...
by Derek | May 22, 2020 | LGBTQI, Memories
It’s funny what you remember – and what you forget. Especially on days when the world shifts. I remember growing up in Dublin. I remember being surrounded by love; my family was a small unit, but a solid one. It was us against the world and the weapon we had to...
by Derek | May 5, 2020 | Memories, Reading, Reviews, The Isolation Diaries, Writers Life
At Noir At The Bar Newcastle 2019 With Simon Bewick, Gytha Lodge, Vic Watson, Jacky Grámosi Collins, Neil Broadfoot, Nic Parker, Mik Brown, Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Jónína Leósdóttir Zoe Sharp and Judith O’ReillytagTag Well here we are again....
by Derek | Mar 25, 2020 | Memories, Music
I don’t have many photos of Debbie. That’s cos she filled my world in a period before we captured every single moment of our lives via smartphones; and that fact – that timing – breaks my fucking heart. I’d love a billion pointless duplications of Debbie on dropbox,...
by Derek | Dec 7, 2019 | Food, Memories, Writers Life
I wrote this piece four years ago. It’s become a tradition to repost it at this time of year, so I’m sharing it again with some updates. I hope you enjoy it. When I was a child – without fail – November smelled of cinnamon, nutmeg, jewel-bright candied carbuncles of...
