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A/a

27th June 2001:Interview
Stephen Amidon: Apocalyptic Times
Stephen Amidon interviewed by Mark Campbell

Steve Aylett: The Entropy Kid
'The thing of some guy with a stocking over his head walking into a bank with a gun - the most interesting thing is the stocking...'

B/b

Edward Bunker: Life Goes On
'Washington is an unsafe place, particularly if you're a middle-class white person. I go down there armed to the teeth...'

Gwendoline Butler: Elegant Death
'I had a lot of creative energy and found I could write two books at once, a thousand words on one in the morning, a thousand on the other in the evening...'

C/c

Caleb Carr
'Do you know that Random House didn't want to call the book The Alienist? They said, 'Nobody will know what the hell an alienist is'...'

Lee Child
'I have a great deal of respect for someone who tries something radical in literary terms that may fail now, but will be accepted in 50 or 100 years. But you can't look at popular fiction in that light: it has to succeed NOW...'

Harlan Coben: Beyond Bolitar
Harlan Coben talks freely with Michael Carlson

John Connolly: In Conversation
'I very consciously did not want to be part of the 'Irish literary tradition', I didn't want to be bound by the strictures applied to Irish writers, to be, like Coim Toibin says, 'engaged in the Irish situation', all sexual repression, famine and how it always rains in bloody Limerick.'

27th January 2001
Christopher Cook: Robbers of Virtue
Interviewed by Barry Forshaw
I was living in a small town in the mountains of central Mexico, paying my meagre way by shuffling money back and forth between half a dozen credit cards - a possibly criminal act in itself - when I thought of Eddie and his running buddy Ray Bob...

Natasha Cooper: Picturesque Decay
'...most writers are a little odd...'

Judith Cutler
'I wouldn't want some sicko wanking himself off while reading one of my books..."

D/d

Michael Dibdin
'...I look back at my own early work with the same mixture of affection and repulsion with which I regard the 20-year-old self who wrote it...'

E/e

Janet Evanovich interviewed by Eve Tan Gee
Superstar Janet tells it like it is...

F/f

Dan Fesperman: Cuts the Mustard
'With all the mumbo-jumbo and incoherent syntax out on the Internet, the strong, clean lines of a novel can look more appealing than ever...'

Anthony Frewin: A Margate of the Mind
'Margate has gone from being sleazy and vulgar to being a little bit threatening. There are some hard cases down there..."

4th October 2001:Interview
Writing For The Maverick Reader: Alan Furst
Alan Furst interviewed by Woody Haut and Brian Ritterspak

G/g

Ed Gorman
meets Peter Dillon-Parkin

H/h

24th May 2001
Peter Haining - interviewed by Mark Campbell
I worked on the West Essex Gazette in Loughton, and the first week I was there we had a horrendous murder - a child was killed by this sad, middle-aged man. And the second week I covered a local court case, which concerned a particularly disgusting case of bestiality...

I/i

J/j

K/k

Jonathan Kellerman: Keeping it Fresh
Interviewed by Barry Forshaw
'There are plenty of anodyne books around if people want them - I don't intend mine to be...'

Andrew Klavan
'I don't think reading will vanish but it might well return to being what it was at first - the preserve of the intellectual elite...'

L/l

M/m

Ed McBain
'...I really don't think Hill Street Blues was an homage to Ed McBain, I think it was a rip off...'

Ed McBain
'...we all worked for Scott Meredith, his literary agency. One of the things we have in common is understanding the market, and working very hard at the typewriter. You're not a writer unless you write'

N/n

Kim Newman: Bloody Material
'...some people find some of my work extreme in violence and sex, but I think of myself as fairly trailing edge as far as these things go...'

O/o

Jack O'Connell: Rules are the Deathblow
'...when I hear writers use the word "gruelling" in relation to their writing life I want to roll my eyes...'

P/p Q/q

Sara Paretsky: Hard Time
Sara Paretsky on her heroine, V.I. Warshaski

Murder, Torture And Depravity with Ingrid Pitt

R/r

Jerry Raine Comes Home
'...it got good reviews, but it didn't sell much...'

Jeffrey Robinson
'...if you get carried away with words like 'pulsing,' and 'throbbing' and use the colour 'dark ruby' more than 121 times, well, then I think maybe you're getting too caught up in writing about something you really want to be doing, instead...'

S/s

20th August 2001
Jim Sallis: Dissonant Chords
James Sallis ranges widely across his interests, influences and intentions

11th June 2001
Cop This: An Interview with Charlie Shafer
Eddie Duggan's email interview with the author of On Cabrini Green

Mickey Spillane
'...violence isn't like it used to be. Sex isn't like it used to be either...'

27th January 2001
Doug Swanson - Where Do You Hide the Body?
Interviewed by Barry Forshaw
'I'm sure there are lucky bastards somewhere whose book ideas spring fully formed and on schedule...'

13th May 2002
Tony Strong
Mark Campbell talks to the author of chilling psycho-frightener The Poison Tree, The Death Pit and The Decoy

T/t

U/u V/v W/w

8th January 2002
Minette Walters: My Glittering Career
Interviewed by Eve Tan Gee
"Agatha Christie wanted to strangle Hercule Poirot (and I can't say I blame her)..."

X/x Y/y Z/z