Simon Avery

53, Male

Birmingham

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Hometown:

Birmingham, UK

About Me:

I've been writing crime fiction for over ten years now. Prior to this, I wrote 'wierd fiction'. Sometimes I still do. I've been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and was nominated for a CWA Short Story Dagger Award in 2001 for 'Leaving Seven Sisters', originally published in the Uk in Crimewave magazine.
More short fiction is due in the next couple of months, as well as some podcasts featuring readings of some of my back catalogue for the TTA/Crimewave/ezine website.
I've just completed my first book, Secret Skin, a private eye novel set in Paris, involving sex traffic, diamond theft and corporate crime.

I Am A:

Reader, Writer

Website:

http://www.myspace.com/simonavery

Books And Authors I Like:

James Lee Burke. James Salter. Cornell Woolrich. Jim Thompson. Robert Crais. Mo Hayder. MIchael Chabon. Derek Raymond. John D. MacDonald, John Harvey. Derek Raymond. James Ellroy.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:

Movies: Magnolia. Psycho. Some Like it Hot. Children of Men. Casablanca. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Citizen Kane. Night of the Hunter. American Beauty. Seven. Amelie. FIght Club. Donnie Darko. Serenity. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
TV: Dexter. The Shield. The Office. Frasier. Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Angel. Firefly. Veronica Mars.

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  Simon Avery

  Hi Grant, thanks. Your book sounds excellent. I'll keep a look out for it in November. Best of luck with it.

  May 12, 2008

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  Leigh Redhead

  Thanks Simon, PI's and strippers are pretty much my favourite things too!
  Cheers x

  May 13, 2008

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  Alafair Burke

  Thanks for introducing yourself. Hopefully we'll meet in person some day.

  May 14, 2008