DetailsJD Kirk and Johnny Shaw - the Bute Noir festival presents two natural storytellers. Scotland's JD Kirk has sold over two million copies of his Jack Logan series, and his new book is the explosive In Service of Death. Award-winning American novelist Johnny...
DetailsThe land of Rebus, Laidlaw and Taggart continues to produce some of the finest fictional police characters between the covers of a book. Marion Todd’s A Blind Eye, the latest investigation for DI Claire Mackay kicks off in explosive style with a solicitor found...
While working on The One That Got Away, the first DI Heather Filson novel, my daughter and I put together a short trailer for the true crime podcast that gets mentioned in the book, Crime De La Crime. It doesn't contain any spoilers for the book itself, so you can...
JD Kirk reviews No More Games, the new book by Scottish crime fiction author, Gordon J. Brown. Find out what he thought.
Scottish crime fiction author, JD Kirk, takes a look back at the book he has been reading over the past month, and asks for your reading recommendations.
DetailsGoing Indie: In Conversation with Self-publishing Experts What does it take to be a successful independent author? In this session, three self-publishing experts frankly explore what it means to a writer to have the full creative freedom and commercial control...
DetailsJoin JD Kirk and a host of other crime writers at the online panel event Desert Island Crooks, moderated by Jonathan Whitelaw. Along with Douglas Skelton, Anna Mazzola, Gytha Lodge, and Lauren North, JD will be discussing the books he'd like to take to a desert...
DetailsJD Kirk will be joining The Writing Community Chat Show at 8pm on the 26th May, for a 1 hour LIVE interview on YouTube. A show full of laughter and interesting stories, JD is looking forward to talking books, writing and his latest release, The One That Got...
DetailsJoin JD Kirk, Clare Lyon, and LJ Ross as they discuss how they have all built successful publishing careers using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. The session will be chaired by a representative from Amazon KDP, and attendees will have time to ask...
DetailsJoin JD Kirk, Peter Gibbons, and Rachel McLean, as they talk about their journey to self-publishing via Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform, offer tips, and take questions from the audience.When & WhereApril 18, 2023 (10:00 am) - April 18, 2023 (10:45...
Recently, it became more difficult to buy Kindle books using the Amazon Kindle app on your phone. Today, I’m going to explain how to do it.
JD Kirk’s latest Scottish crime fiction novel, One For the Ages, has hit number one in the Amazon Kindle charts. Find out more.
It's publication day for One For the Ages, the 16th book in the DCI Jack Logan series. I've made a little video to celebrate, and in it I also reveal the special publication day present that I bought myself. Check it out below. If you haven't grabbed your copy of the...
JD Kirk talks about his superpower – aphantasia – and how he has used it to write up to twenty books in a single year.
Last year, I fell out of the habit of reading a bit. I think I was so caught up in writing, and dealing with various real world issues that had sprung up, that reading fell by the wayside. Fortunately, I got my reading mojo back last year, after Kelsey at the Highland...
It's Burns Night, and to mark this momentous occasion I'm delighted to be handing over control of the blog to Robert and Roberta Hoon, for what is the first, and very probably the last, of their 'Cooking with Bob & Berta' segments. The transcript that follows was...
Recently, I was interviewed by Kate Baguley for The Writing Room, a regular series of interviews with authors and people in the publishing world, set up by crime author, pal of mine, and all-round excellent person, LJ Ross. The interview went live today, and you can...
First of all, apologies for being a bit quiet here, on social media, and in the JD Kirk VIP Club newsletters recently. Due to a veritable clusterfuck of family health issues, the Christmas period was significantly busier and more stressful than it might otherwise have...
An account of my recent trip to Waterstone’s in Inverness’ Eastgate Centre, where I was signing copies of the latest Bob Hoon novel.
It's the moment you've all been waiting for. Or that some of you have been vaguely anticipating. One of those. Whichever, today is the day that I finally launch my exclusive range of JD Kirk Merchandise! Woohoo! Hooray! Yaaaas! etc, etc. Here's how it works. There...
