John Rickards writes thrillers and crime fiction, as well as dabbling in short stories. Read samples or catch the latest news here, get in touch, or see what's going on at his personal blog.

As you might be able to see, I’ve once again shifted the appearance of this place. Never really happy with the last look, so I think this is a better bet; at the moment, I’d certainly say I’m unlikely to do it again for a while.

Keep an eye out for developments content-wise - that ‘downloads’ link at the top will eventually lead somewhere and you might find it interesting.

That’s if it’s not all terribly broken, of course…

Bev, my editor, is leaving Penguin after a year Down Under. No surprise at all to me - she’d said if her and the family liked it out there, they’d want to stay. So she’s moving to Random House Australia (and moving from Melbourne to Sydney) and staying out there for good.

Good luck, fare thee well, etc.

Yup, the blog’s been split. Update your feed reader and/or bookmarks and/or spambots to point at namelesshorror.com as well as this place.

I’ve taken a break from the unceasing fun of my personal life to completely rejigger this place. Regular readers know that most of the content here has been of the photo post or internet comedy varieties, in between mumblings about editing the latest book.

Well, I’m now spinning off all the non-work stuff onto the Nameless Horror site. This place will be reserved purely for work and book-related stuff. There’ll probably be a small amount of cross-posting between the two - if I do another ’state of the genre’ screed it’d go up in both - but otherwise the two are likely to remain basically separate entities. The Horror is going to be far more frequently updated and, chances are, more interesting to most of you. For those poor, sad fools who come here after reading one of the books, the site won’t seem to be a mess of unrelated garbage. Everyone’s a winner.

I’ll run reminders to check the Horror instead with the next couple of posts here, whenever they appear. Meantime, indeed, update your bookmarks.

It looks suspiciously like York electro rock act Dust Bowl Central have evaporated, since their web page is vanished and gone.

I’ve pimped them on here before - their first EP was a free download and the second in crisp CD form only cost me about three quid through their site - and I’d always hoped there’d be more. One of the few unsigned bands I’ve encountered through the random ether of the internet who had actually made me think, “Hey, these guys are really good.”

Forty on the kerb, etc. Also have to backup that first EP of MP3s to hardcopy since there’ll be no other way of saving the thing if my originals die.