This is the official website of Danny King, author of The Burglar Diaries, and it’s all free – at least until he can figure out some way of making money out of it. There’s not much to it, to be honest, just a few bits and bobs you might find interesting if you liked the books. So enjoy, and don’t waste your time looking for porn because there isn’t any.
THE DK DIARIES:
LATEST NEWS & DEVELOPMENTS
21/08/08 BLUE COLLAR DEAL SIGNED
I'm pleased to announce that the next book of mine to be published will be 'BLUE COLLAR'. I've just signed the contract with Serpent's Tail and the book will be available in all the usual places, bookshops, on-line, recycling bins etc, from June 2009. It's a bit of a wait I'm afraid but if you get drunk every day from now until then, you'll find the months and weeks pass by in no time. It's what I'm planning on doing. BLUE COLLAR is a bit of a departure from my normal genre, in that it's not a crime story, but it's still in my usual style (ie. crass jokes, casual swearing, implausible plots and primary school punctuation), so if you've enjoyed my past books, you should enjoy this one – particularly if you've ever tried to bridge the social twain.
05/06/09 OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH
A brand-new never-been-seen-before Burglar Diaries story has been published by a dynamic new on-line POD publisher called Byker Books Industrial Strength Fiction. You can find The Man With No Life on the Radgepacket page of their site, as well as an interview I did with the boys in Radgepacket Interviews. The chaps have great ambitions for Byker Books and I think they¹re off to a flying start, so check them out and keep an eye on them at the following address: www.bykerbooks.co.uk.
09/05/08 BIG GREEN BOOKSHOP *EVENT*
I’ll be doing a reading and giving an informal chat (ie. no preparation) at
the Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green on June 9th as part of the chaps’ Crime
Week so do pop along if you get the chance. The Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1,
Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, London N22 6BG. The event starts at 6.30pm
and will also be attended by Cathi Unsworth, a smashing friend of mine who
wrote such corking reads as The Not Knowing and The Singer. I’ll be sober
until at least 7.05pm, so hope to see you there if there’s nothing good on
the box that night.
23/04/08 FORTHCOMING UPDATES
I've finally got around to updating my Forthcoming Publications page to show
what's happening with what, so take a butcher's if you feel so inclined.
22/04/08 SCUMBAGS MAKE NOISE
Attention all you truckers out there, School for Scumbags is now out on
audio book. Narrated by Dave John (who did the Burglar and Hitman audios),
it is available on CD and cassette, and is published by Clipper Audio. A
link to their site can be found on the School for Scumbags page.
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18/04/08 CHARLIE KING MAKES HIS DEBUT
Forgive the indulgence, but I'd like to take this opportunity to announce the birth of mine and Jeannie's first son, Charlie Stewart Milo King.
Charlie was born at 5.19am at London's UCH on 09/04/08 and he weighed in at 7lbs 10oz. Just like his old man, he likes to lounge around the house all day while the rest of the world's at work and enjoys a liquid lunch.
I gave him the extra middle name of Milo as I've always liked it and reckoned it was all free advertising space anyway. Still, he was lucky, if the coin had come up heads he could've been called Scumbag. Again, just like his dad. |
18/02/08 HITMAN FILM DEAL STRUCK
Stella Nova Films have optioned the film rights to The Hitman Diaries. Stella Nova producer, Daniel Caltagirone, is keen to shoot the film in Britain and stay faithful to the book. He will be concentrating on the screenplay over the next couple of months and has asked me help develop it.
01/02/2008 CORACLE SNAP UP VAMPIRE FLICK
Coracle Films have optioned the rights to my comic horror vampire screenplay, Reign of Blood (see FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS page for details). Coracle producers, Dexter Fletcher and Jason Flemyng are now in talks with a top line production company about finance and development but so far things are looking good. Watch this space.
09/01/08 SCUMBAGS GO TO HOLLYWOOD
DM Productions have optioned the film rights to School for Scumbags. DM producer, David Matalon, is the former President of Columbia Tri-Star. He left Tri-star in the late eighties to produce movies before becoming President and CEO of New Regency in the nineties. He returned to producing in 2007 and "is one of the most well connected guys in Hollywood." Negotiations were held up only slightly by the writers' strike, but the deal's now signed and sealed. Fantastic.
06/11/07 SCUMBAGS MAKE SOME NOISE
WF Howes are to publish School for Scumbags on audio book. WF Howes have already done a great job on The Burglar Diaries and The Hitman Diaries audio books and will publish Scumbags in 2008 on CD, cassette and download.
