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A great book launch for "Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service"

31/10/2020

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The book launch was a cracker of an afternoon, befitting my main man, PI Harry Kenmare: the wine and whiskey were flowing and we were surrounded by naked ladies (well, on the walls, anyway!)

​It was a sold-out event, within the COVID restrictions, and everyone got into the spirit.  Literally, in some cases, if the amount of single malt Scotch showing up on the bill was any indication!
Well, as Harry would say, here for a good time, not a long time.

I even earned a new sobriquet: "The bad boy of Australian crime fiction".  Yep, I'll wear that one with pride!

​Dr Allan Yates was, once again, a superb MC for the afternoon, and we had some great discussion and audience questions.  Lots of books went home with people, including quite a number of the earlier novels.
My huge thanks to my partner, Ruth, for managing the whole event, to Allan for his MC efforts, and to Zelman and Dan, the owners of the glorious Glebe Hotel, for hosting us.  The upstairs Nude Bar, overflowing with erotic artworks, is Harry's perfect launch pad!  (As you can see from the photo below).
And we had the raffle of bundles of my three favourite anthology magazines, so five lucky people now have copies of Switchblade, Econoclash Review, and Pulp Modern to expand their reading repertoire!

The event (at least myself and Allan) was filmed, so you can watch the whole launch via the YouTube link.  It's about 90 minutes, and it's fun.

Meantime, feel free to get yourself some Harry!  You can contact me for an original paperback, or there's Amazon, amongst others.

Cheers,
ABP


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© The 2 hotel photos are copyright of The Glebe Hotel.
​All other photos are copyright of A.B. Patterson.

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Book Launch - " Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service" - Sold Out!

16/10/2020

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The official book launch for Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service is this weekend, Sunday 18 October 2020.

As with all Harry launches, it will be in the glorious Nude Bar, upstairs at the Glebe Hotel.  Where else for Harry, really?  Surrounded by nude art and alcohol.
And after all, my local pub is Harry's beloved Emerald Bar in the books!

The event, alas limited in numbers due to current COVID restrictions, is SOLD OUT, so sincere apologies to those who wanted to come but can't book in.

However, as for my previous launches, we will be recording the event and the video will go up on my website and YouTube sometime next week.

The event MC will again be my friend and fellow anti-corruption professional, Dr Allan Yates.

And I'll be giving a big plug to my favourite crime/pulp anthology magazines, hoping to get some more Aussies reading these gems.
I've even done up a juicy flyer (see attached) that everyone at the launch will be getting.  And there'll be some giveaways of these superb magazines.

Here's looking forward to a sizzling Sunday afternoon!

Cheers,
ABP



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Radio interview - A.B.Patterson & PI Harry Kenmare

13/10/2020

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A big week here in Sydney for the new Harry book.

First up is my latest radio interview...

Eric Gyors at Eastside FM has been a great supporter of the Harry books, and I've appeared on his show for both the novels previously.
And we are doing it again!

Yes, tomorrow afternoon I'll be on air live with Eric in his Drive program to chat about the new Harry short story collection, Harry Kenmare, PI - At Your Service.
And I'm sure we'll chat lots about writing all that crime and corruption.
Plus there'll be some books as giveaways to listeners.

So folks, tune in or listen online - Eastside 89.7 FM.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, at 4.30 p.m. (Sydney time).

It'll be a blast as always on Eric's show.

And stay tuned for the official book launch...

Cheers,​
ABP

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COPS WRITING CRIME - 6 more members join The Squad!

3/10/2020

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Another 6 colleagues - 3 Americans, 1 British, 1 Australian, and 1 Canadian - join The Squad today, bringing its numbers to 256.  

That's 256 cops and ex-cops (and some PIs) who have taken to writing crime fiction.  You won't get more realistic crime tales than those from this Squad!


We have joining us today:
1.   Martin Malloy - served in the USA, I believe in Delaware.
2.   Alan Sewart (Deceased 1998) - served with the Lancashire Police in the UK.
3.   Edward Conlon - served with the NYPD in the USA.
4.   Dustin Dodd - a still-serving officer in the USA, with the Napa PD in California.
5.   T. J. Hamilton - another of my Australian compatriots - served with the New South Wales Police.
6.   Michael Walton - a still-serving officer in Canada - with the Ontario Police.

Our Squad now consists of:

153 American
51 British

14 Canadian
13 Australian
4 New Zealander
3 Finnish
2 Dutch
2 Swedish
1 French
1 Bahamian
1 Norwegian
1 Italian
1 Czech
1 Russian
1 Hungarian
1 Spaniard
1 Pakistani
​1 Irish
1 Chinese
1 Brazilian
2 "International" (listed as this due to current serving officer requirements)


I'll keep adding more as I come across them, and if you know of any others please feel free to drop me a line.

Check out The Squad:
Also: Cops Writing Crime
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And please remember, my list is only for CRIME FICTION - not all the true crime and/or memoir writing by cops and ex-cops that's out there (as good as so much of that is).
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​Cheers,
ABP
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