Wednesday, October 04, 2006

THIRTY-THREE YEARS ON....

Penguin have scheduled the mass-market paperback of THE GROUNDS for 4 January 2007. An auspicious day in my personal life: our 33rd wedding anniversary. I'm one of the Irish generation that married young. Very young. Too young, some said. Too late now....

I don't regret a minute of it. Would do it again if she'd have me.

To celebrate the upcoming launch, I'm enhancing my two sites : www.cormacmillar.com and www.kingscollegedublin.org -- the latter being the web offering of the fictional university featuring in THE GROUNDS. Oddly enough, a presumably real librarian on the web claims to have visited the King's College Dublin campus, while one London lawyer is described as a graduate of the place. Life has a way of catching up with Art....

The Cormac Millar site has recently gained a listing of some three dozen Irish crime writers. Advertising my competitors? Why not. There's plenty of room for talent.