I carry my grief high in my chest. A hard lump, slightly smaller than a clenched fist, it lives just below my collarbones. Every breath has to get through this knot. Every bite of food, eve...
Love is a sweet cake with a hard stone buried inside. Sometimes more than one. We think about love, we think about the cake. The sweet parts you'd see on a car commercial. They show you the h...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2017/02/swallowing-stones-for-love.html
Merry Christmas, everyone! In a few minutes, I get to watch an amazing two year old rip through all those presents. It's gonna rock! Talk again soon... :)
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-very-good-day.html
It took awhile, but I'm finally writing again. Sort of. You see, in the nine years since I started this blog (Nine?! Seriously?!) I've had a pretty consistent method: I'd get up early and write...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2016/11/writing-again-mostly.html
So, back last July? I had a plan, a pretty good one I thought: Move back to the US for 3-5 years, buy a house, build some equity, come on back to New Zealand finally able to afford a house here. ...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2016/05/man-plans-god-laughs.html
A few years ago, on a visit back to New Orleans, I had a truly fantastic dinner with CS Harris , CharlesGramlich and Sphinx Ink . (And Candy's husband Steve, but he doesn't have a blog to li...
(What follows is the text of the eulogy I wrote for my father's funeral...) When I think of my father, I think of his voice. Trained by the Church in a day when priests had to reach the ba...
Her name is Charlotte Grace, and we call her Charlie. She was pretty much the coolest birthday present I could have imagined. I was going to write something witty and clever, but it's been tw...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2015/02/so-this-happened.html
The new book, PRODIGAL, is finally out, and for the next few days, it's absolutely FREE! Download your copy here :)
Seriously-- a year?!?!?! A whole f**king YEAR since my last post?!?!?!?! That's just taking the piss, that is. Oh, and what a year it's been. Lot of personal stuff I won't go into here (odd o...
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So, work is going slow on BURIED. At first I thought this would be an easy one, a finished manuscript that needed little more than a quick polish an off to the Beta readers. It's a tidy wee thr...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2013/10/ripping-off-hamlet.html
I’d like to thank fellow author AVERY DEBOW for tagging me to participate. Click the link to find out about her book, RESONANCE . In this particular hop, I and my fellow authors, in thei...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-next-big-thing-find-new-authors-you.html
Hey everyone, just a quick intro/recap for any of you who are new here: My name is Steve Malley. I write thrillers with a hard dark edge, full of action and intelligence, sex and violence and ...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2013/03/recap-and-intro.html
Naturally enough, I can't stop thinking about the school shooting at Sandy Hook . And at Chardon , Virginia Tech , Red Lake , West Nickel Mines , Westside and of course, Columbine . The list is ...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2012/12/loaded-thoughts.html
One of my favorite Neil Gaiman quotes is something along the lines of 'you never really learn to write novels- you only learn how to write the novel you've just written'. (Except, of course, prob...
(pronounced 'shall-ONGE', for any of you who were wondering) So I've set myself a challenge: release four books before Christmas. Yup, that's right: not one or two, not even three, but FOUR sep...
So a series of hardware meltdowns and my own dependence on stored passwords left me locked out of several email accounts, as well as blogger. As time went on, I got (and stayed) sidetracked. Unti...
Well, for a change this blog has been quiet for a *good* reason: Kane's back, and just like last time, he's kicking ass in longhand! I don't know what it is about that character (maybe that h...
(Note: It's pretty damn late right now. I've got an early morning ahead of me tomorrow, but I've been putting off this post for WAY too long. I guess tonight's the night...) So as 2011 wound dow...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2012/01/successful-failure-year-in-review.html
Yup, it's really happening: I'm coming to New Orleans and Georgia! Totally excited to see so many friends and family from the birth country. And yes, totally excited to know that I've got my ...
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry My rating: 3 of 5 stars Beautifully pointless. Yes, it's sweeping. Yes, it's epic. Yes, it's beautifully written. My problem is, this sprawling saga of the...
Last week I left Facebook. It didn't seem all that big a deal to me-- the site was becoming more work than I felt it was worth. What surprised me was the reaction from real-life friends and ac...
I live in my favorite city on Earth. At least, I used to. Christchurch is big enough for culture, entertainment and the arts, small enough to stay clean and friendly and easy to get around. We...
For some time now, (since the loss of the Tiny Dynamo Course Correction System, in fact) I've felt like that old vaudeville act where the guy spins plates on the ends of sticks. No sooner does he...
http://steve-malley.blogspot.com/2011/07/spinning-plates.html
So last week was something of a crazy one in this Brave New World of publishing. On the one hand, bestselling author Barry Eisler turned down a half-million dollar deal to self publish. On the o...