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Dimitri Iatrou , a Canadian (Nova Scotian) writer, has recently released Damastor – available from Amazon . READ THE REVIEW ON THIS BLOG HERE . With “themes of heaven and hell”, it’s a supernatural thriller set in the Middle Ages and in the present-day. It features a junkie, Kameron, who steals for his fix, and three mid-fourteenth-century figures whose lives have been devastated by the arrival of the Pestilence, or Black Death. Dimitri Iatrou Tell us about the timeline of the novel, Dimitri. And this Kameron is a hero/antihero? It's past/present. Goes from England 1349 to the present. Back and forth. Kameron is a druggie who mugs people for a living. But he's connected to the past somehow; moreover, he keeps having memories which do not belong to him. They’re becoming progressively more lucid and more frequent and he’s freaking out because he figures he’s going insane, that the voices are all attributed to years of drug abuse. Have you done any marketing for your book? Book si...

Suspense author Mark P. Sadler is in the process of writing his series featuring cop Nate Duarte. The first book in the Border Noir trilogy, Kettle of Vultures , is available at Amazon .  Mark was good enough to take a few questions from me over email. Let's talk pen names. Elsewhere, you mention Dennis Lynds (died 2005) - a mystery writer I had never heard of, who took a number of noms-de-plumes including "Mark Sadler" (which is why you write as Mark P. Sadler). Funnily enough, one of my favourite Irish authors is Booker-nominated Michael Collins (born 1964) . He's in the States now too, Mark. But I had never heard of this Dennis Lynds. By golly, he has a lot to answer for with the name-thieving! :-) Have you ever been asked if you ARE him, or have you ever been mistaken for him? Well, now I know you must be pulling my leg as a search of Wikipedia turns up “Michael Collins is the best-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds, an American author who primarily wrote mystery f...