A writer of several genres

I am regarded as an excellent writer 

                                                  Noir Writer

The first question a book promoter usually asks me is what genre do you write?

My reply is I don't write in a genre, I see myself as a writer of several genres.

To explain this situation, I will expand.

The book on this post is the first eBook I sold, to a lady in Berlin, Germany.

The story is a noir thriller which has been highly praised for its authentic feel by a former police officer in Queensland, Australia.

My early reputation as a writer was based on my writing of ghost stories.

My bestselling eBooks are a Science Fiction series called Forgestriker.

The latest book I wrote is a mystery set in India.

I recently updated my romance set in Israel to include the main female character travelling to India, with the possibility of further stories, if the book sells.

The story I am working on is a modern erotic romance, with a strong female character as the leading role.

If you were to ask what do I like to write the most, my answer would be stories in the Gothic style, I have two on file now.

As you see, it is hard to pin my style down; I've tried most genres, my Amazon bestseller is a western horror short story called Holding Richmond.

I saw on Barnes & Noble some people complaining that my books are no more than a chapbook, a book containing a chapter, what did they expect for $2.00 at the most?

What could I have been?

 Alan Place - Noir Writer

I am an Award Winning Writer

                                                 Alan Place - Multi-Genre Writer

The two questions I get asked the most are what do I write, and what do I prefer to write?

The first question is best answered, what won't I write, as my writing covered most genre categories.

The two I areas I enjoy writing the most are Noir Crime, and Gothic. I enjoy the dark areas on Noir, where a person can do the wrong thing for the right reason.

I like Gothic, as I prefer old-style horror stories from the Victorian era.

Alan Place - Noir Writer

 Spider Noir

My first eBook sale

I will admit from the get-go, I have not seen a Spiderman movie, and as far as I recall I can't recall seeing a Nicholas Cage film. With that information at hand, you would think Spider Noir wouldn't be of interest to me, but it is, I am looking forward to seeing the series on Amazon Prime.

I enjoy most film-noir movies, it is the dark side of life, when people make bad choices, and leave mysteries in their wake

Can you beat the truth out of a person?

 Noir Writer

                                                   Netflix

When I watch crime series based in India on Netflix, they remind me of the 1950's in the USA, when all that mattered was solving the crime.

The common thread running through most is that violence can be tolerated to get the results, much like my short story from 2011. This story was praised for its realism by a poice officer I chatted to at the time, from Queensland, Australia.

To me, this raises the question, do you get the truth, or do you get the answer the person suffering the beating thinks you wish to hear, to stop the beatings?

I admit, I like films with a darker edge to them; the grit of life shows through.

F.B.I. v Alan Place

 I got accused of being a scammer

Alan Place - Noir Writer

                                                                        It is a joke

Twice I was accused of being a scammer by young ladies online, both times I made the person look like a fool.

The first person was a young lady from San Diego, who said she was studying to be a nurse, in a university in Canada. I thought this odd, but not unusual, as many foreign students study where there are courses.

We'd been chatting for about two months, when she asked for $100 to pay for a flight home to see her mother, during half-term. When I refused, she said she'd report me to the F.B.I. as a scamer.

This was beyond ridiculous, I had to point out as I am in the UK, the F.B.I. has no authority to investigate me, unless I enter the USA. I then pointed out, they would have to get authority from the Police in the UK to proceed. This was assuming she could get the F.B.I. to take the case, as the ammount was so small, finally, I pointed out they would check our chat, to find she's been asking me for the money. After that, she backed down, and our chats dried up.

The second time was when a person said she'd report me as a scammer for not answering her video call, I pointed out I don't reply to people I don't know, and said, "If you do report me, they'll see, you asked me for the money as 10 minutes ago, I didn't know of you." Again, that was the end of the matter.

Flummery

 Alan Place - Noir Writer

What could I have been?

Tomorrow's World

Flummery is a term used by Rex Stout's detective Nero Wolfe, to describe rubbish. That is the most polite way I can describe the two people who scammed me fron November to June.

I have to admit to being amazed at the ammount of interest which sprang up this year, about my writing, at a time when I have given up. It does raise the question, what could I have been, if I had lived in the USA, and had the money for publicity?

When I began, writers I knew told me to wait 10 years to be recognised, I waited 15 years, then gave up hope

My Noir Days

  French New Wave Cinema

                                           A much Praised story

My Noire Thriller about the fight to recognised as a police officer by Pat Canella was highly praised for its authentic style by Queensland writer, Pat Ritter, who was a police officer for many years.

I prefer the French New Wave Cinema of the late 50's, and 60's to the more glamourous image of police life prtrayed in the 70's, and 80's. Police work involves a lot of time searching through files, and walking the streets, often with little results. Rarely do they have the car chases as seen in Starsky and Hutch. Many times, they solve the crimes, only to have them thrown out because a politician has influence in court.