I shall hold my hand up to being a full-timer too. It's a strange way to make a living, just writing crime novels and nothing else, but it's better than some of the jobs I used to do...
Hi there Stuart,
Many thanks for adding me as a Crimespace friend. Like your good self, I am a member of the bearded community. What with Crimespace, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, what's next? How about Beardspace? All the best. Malcolm
What an excellent description of La Barclay! She's an event all right, but perhaps not as horizontally as some tragically ageing crimewriters might wish ...
By the way, how do you get your messages to show up on your wall and mine? Wish I could make that work. Makes e-conversations much easier to follow ...
I really enjoyed the article Tom, nice to see someone who actually likes crime fiction reporting on a crime festival.
In answer to your question, last year I described le Barclay:
"Then it was off to the bar, where the inimitable Alex Barclay (who isn't actually a man) made her usual dramatic appearance, telling everyone they looked gorgeous in a ninety mile an hour Southern Irish accent. Alex tends to create her own event horizon, frenetic energy building up to critical mass until it implodes into a gravitational well that pulls in men for miles around. Shameless hussy that she is."