Matt Hilton Thrills

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Signed - sealed - delivered - I'm yours!

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/features/people/signed-sealed-and-delivered-1.684067?referrerPath=home/2.1962

Follow the link to read an interview I did with Roger Lytollis for the News and Star newspaper. Great story, Roger. Thank you.

Up date on Slash and Burn competition

I'm glad to see so many people taking part in the voting over at Joe Hunter's Fixer's blog http://joehuntersfixers.blogspot.com/ , to win a signed copy of Slash and Burn. It looks like we have three stories racing towards the finishing post up until now. But will Gallance, Long Time Coming and Firestorm be the eventual short-list? It's down to you for your favourite to win. Make sure that you tell your friends, your family, anyone who enjoys to read a thrilling story, and send them there to vote for their favourite. Who knows where that will lead? Or who the eventual winner will be.

For clarity and fairness I'm taking no part in this round of voting. It's down to you, the readers to decide your favourites.

The stories are anonymous, so if you're one of the writers, keep things fair and don't tell your readers which is your story. Allow the story to stand on its own strengths, but do encourage people to read them and VOTE.

This round finishes this Friday 19th March at midnight GMT.

The top three will then be posted at Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers http://thrillskillsnchills.blogspot.com/
and here at Matt Hilton Thrills where voting will be opened again. Votes from this round will be carried through. But, you are then invited to vote again for the eventual winner of the three shortlisted. You are allowed to vote at both sites (because I've no way of stopping this) and indeed it will pay you to do so to ensure your favourite wins. I will also add my vote to the story that I think is the best.

Voting for round two will end Wednesday 31st March at midnight GMT and the winner announced on 1st April.

Hope this is clear.

Now, go round up the troops and keep on voting.

Monday, 15 March 2010

SLASH AND BURN - Joe Hunter three - the blurb

The new Joe Hunter Thriller by MATT HILTON

‘A sparkling new talent’ Peter James

SLASH AND BURN

‘Some may call me a vigilante. I think I’ve just got problems to fix.’

Joe Hunter is always ready to help a lady in distress. Particularly when Kate, the lady in question, is the sister of a dead Special Forces mate.

Robert Huffman pretends to be a respectable businessman. But the psychopathic Bolan twins he uses as his enforcers give the lie to that. Huffman is a player in the murky world of organised crime and needs Kate as bait for one of his schemes.

Joe is way outnumbered by the bad guys, but since when did that stop him? He’ll rescue Kate if he has to slash and burn to get her …

Let's start Howling!

Although I've had no creative influence into the book 'Howl' edited by Mark Anthony Crittenden, it's one I've been eagerly waiting for and am happy to say my copy is now winging its way over the Atlantic and towards my eagerly grasping hands.

There are a few pertinent reasons for this:

1. I love savage horror tales.
2. It's a new take on the man-beast/beast-man tales we're all used to.
3. It's got a cool cover beautifully modelled by author Erin Cole.
4. Some of the contributors are firm favourites of mine, and I like to even count some of them as firm friends I've made through the process of writing and through the blogosphere, including Lee Hughes, Paul D. Brazill, Erin Cole et al.

...and...

5. It marks the print publication debut of my little brother, Jim Hilton, (who occasionally writes as James Hilton or James Oliver Hilton) who for some time now has shared my ambition to be a full-time writer. Jim's story INTRODUCING GEMMA NYE is included in the anthology, and I have to admit to being proud as punch for him. Jim is a writer I admire, and he has a seriously wicked sense of humour that shines through his often very dark fiction. At present he is working on his first novel, a crime fiction thriller featuring his recurring short story characters of Danny and Matt McMurdo - collectively know as 'McMurder'. To find out more about Jim's work see http://www.jimhilton.co.uk/

Howl is available from Lame Goat Press, Createspace.com and soon on Amazon.com

Sunday, 14 March 2010

This weeks big news continues...

In the rush towards publication of my third book, it had almost slipped my attention that this Thursday 18th March 2010, the mass market paperback edition of Judgement and Wrath will also be available to purchase from all good bookshops, supermarkets and such like throughout the UK and across the world.

If you haven't got your copy yet, this is your chance to pick up a Joe Hunter novel that has been getting rave reviews. The brand new cover is awesome...and not a daffodil in sight!

What goes around Comes around.

It's with great delight that I share some news with you about a good friend and top author, Adrian Magson.

But first I'm gonna tell ya a story...

Many moons ago, way back when I was still a struggling writer out in the wilderness and hoping and dreaming of a publishing deal, I used to read the magazines dedicated to writers and writing. One such magazine in the UK is WRITING MAGAZINE, and for some time I'd been following the advice of a collumnist therein, when said collumnist had his own little success story reported. He'd just achieved a deal with publishing house Creme De la Crime, and his first novel, NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED, and the first in a series featuring Riley Gavin and Frank Palmer was about to be published. I was chuffed for him and decided - totally out of form for me cause I'm a shy lad by nature - I emailed the collumnist with my best wishes. Top man that he was, he got back to me and also encouraged me to keep on writing and also to submit to CDLC. I promptly did with my book CRITICAL CHOICES, a standalone, man in peril novel, but was sadly rejected. However, I got some really helpful advice back from the folks at CDLC that helped spur me on.

The years past, and as you know I kept writing, submitting, and finally got my very own deal. Throughout that time I always held a note of gratitude to the collumnist for kindly pointing me in the right direction.

Well, I suppose you've guessed that the collumnist was Adrian Magson. I loved his books. And, you've probably read here before where I've extolled Adrian's worth as an author - not to mention a thoroughly top gentleman. So, two years ago, when in Baltimore, at the Bouchercon World Mystery Conference, I was a little star struck when I bumped into Adrian and his lovely wife, Anne. Adrian 'actually remembered me' and we struck up a firm friendship, and I have to thank him for taking the time to blurb my first book, Dead Men's Dust, and for also featuring me in his 'Debut Authors' collumn in Writing magazine, amongst other things.

I always thought that Adrian should be a far bigger name than he had already achieved, and have also mentioned here that I believed he would become a star in the crime writing scene.

Well, and here's the news....

On Wednesday this week, thanks to the efforts of Adrian's agent, David Headley, who is also the proprietor of Goldsboro Books in London, Adrian signed a 2-book deal for a spy series with Kate Lyall Grant at Severn House, the first of which - 'Red Station' - comes out in August (November in the US).

But that's not all...

...not one to do things by half, David also got Adrian a separate 2-book deal with Allison & Busby for a French cop series set in the 60s, the first of which - 'Death on the Marais' - comes out in October.

To say I'm over the moon for Adrian is an understatement, and I want to say "Well done, mate. I knew you'd achieve everything that you are due, and I can't wait to read all four books".

By the way, Adrian also has a more sedate three part series 'Crimewave at Southbeach' starting at the end of this month (27th March) in MY WEEKLY magazine, if you would like to investigate his more gentle side.

I'm made up.

Matt

To find out more about Adrian Magson just click http://www.adrianmagson.com/