I’m a novelist and have been doing this full-time these past few years. Before that, for about 30 years, I was a freelance writer focusing on business and finance and other boring stuff that paid the bills. By 2015, I’d had enough. I wrote two memoirs, Dear Michael, Love Dad (Hodder, 2016/17) and, with my eldest son, Michael, Out Of The Madhouse (JKP, 2018). Both of these are available on Amazon and as audios too – Dear Michael, Love Dad is read by the fab actor, Michael Simkins, and Out Of The Madhouse is read by my son Michael and myself – what a wonderful experience that was.
I spent a few years with one agent and one publisher getting nowhere very … very … very … slowly with one thriller out each year – Sweet William, Mr Todd’s Reckoning and The Scribbler – and this was incredibly frustrating. Wasted years, really. Mr Todd’s Reckoning was coming to TV as a six-part series with Paul Ritter starring in it. Sadly, Paul passed away and the production company, AbbottVision, withdrew from the project. Who knows what’s next?
I then spent 18 months thrashing about, trying to get with the right people. Things, eventually, slotted into place (very nicely) with the right publisher and I now represent myself for my psych thrillers.
I am currently writing psych thrillers for Inkubator Books – four so far, The Girl Downstairs, The Perfect Husband, The Soulmate and, out tomorrow, The New Son. What Lies Inside is out in May. I am now writing You’re All Mine, which should be out in July. After that, it will be The Real Father, out, all being well, this side of Christmas. I will mostly be writing psych thrillers for a while. They sell. I make a living. I am happy .
Happy Days!
Iain
Iain Maitland
Saturday 23 March 2024
Iain Maitland, Novelist 