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Thanks to all those who shelled out to buy Their Little Secret when it came out earlier this year in hardback. On January 9th, 2020, it’s gorgeous paperback cousin will hit the bookshops (physical and online). No pressure, but I need a new hat and I know where you live, so RUSH out and buy one. Or borrow one. Steal one if you absolutely have to.* As if that shameless plea for your patronage were not enough, the BRAND NEW Tom Thorne novel, my TWENTIETH book, will be published next summer by Little, Brown. It’s one I’m hugely excited about, not just because of the significant anniversary, but because it’s a prequel to my debut novel, Sleepyhead. I can’t reveal the title of the new book just yet, but a cover and title reveal are imminent. As if this were not enough to have you all a-twitter with excitement, a special anniversary edition of Sleepyhead is coming in April, complete with a new foreword from none other than Lee Child. There will only be 1000 signed and numbered copies available and you can get the early numbers from the fabulous Goldsboro Books in London (www.goldsborobooks.com)

The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers – the rawking beat-combo featuring myself, Val McDermid, Stuart Neville, Chris Brookmyre, Doug Johnstone and Luca Veste – will be continuing to play while you shake your booty/heads in disbelief, at venues up and down the land. Following our fantasy-fulfilling appearance at Glastonbury in June, we have been working on some new songs to murder and in 2020 we will be doing so in Milton Keynes, Stroud, Basingstoke, Edinburgh, Derby and many other discerning towns and cities. Come on down and jump around.

As per usual, I will spend a good deal of next year pimping all manner of stuff – gobbing off at any opportunity at whichever bookshop, festival or street-corner will have me. There is a list of forthcoming UK events – bookish AND rock-and-roll-ish – on this very page. Look…just over there! You do NOT want to miss a chance to come and heckle. I will sign my own books but am also happy to sign anyone else’s. I will dance for beer and small change. You can also sign up to receive my regular-ish newsletter which always has lots more information, lovely pictures and some cheap jokes. I don’t send them out nearly as often as I should, but the next one’s only just gone out, so I’m feeling extremely virtuous.

I’m always wasting my life on social media when I should probably be working and it is the quickest and easiest way to make contact if you want to send a message or tell me off about something. Come and say hello…

OK, that’s quite enough yapping. I’ve got a new book to write.

TWITTER: @MarkBillingham

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBillinghamAuthor

If you need more than 140 characters, you can also contact me at:

mail@markbillingham.com

Yours in crime, in country music, and in a predictably tasteless shirt,

Mark

*Don’t steal it!