What writing Lose This Skin means to JERRY SYKES

Written by Jerry Sykes

 

 
 
Jerry Sykes  

 

Jerry Sykes came to my attention when he won the CWA Short Story Dagger a few years ago. Although he was known before this for his work in Shots’ predecessor; A Shot in the Dark, plus contributions to a slew of anthologies.  When I discovered news of his debut novel ‘Lose this Skin’, I asked Jerry to tell Shots’ readers a little about the novel.

 Ali Karim

I first became aware of Camden Lock in the late 70s when The Clash had their rehearsal space there in an abandoned railway arch. Stranded in rural Yorkshire my friends and I would often talk long into the night about what a magical place the Lock must be to inspire such heroic music. But by the time I finally came to visit the Lock in the early 80s The Clash had long since gone and the area had taken its first tentative steps towards becoming some kind of Disneyland for the casually disenfranchised. Twenty years later the transformation is complete. Every weekend the Lock is flooded with thousands of tourists from all over the world in search of a little pocket hedonism and rebellion-by-proxy. Even the drug dealers who whisper at you from every corner seem to have come straight from central casting.

Behind all this seemingly harmless fun however something far more sinister lurks. Camden Town has one of the biggest drugs problems in the country. But in a world that pays Kate Moss ten times more than she was being paid before the tabloids dubbed her Cocaine Kate it is hard not to believe that the authorities are turning a blind eye in order to keep the tourist dollars rolling in.

This is all pure speculation of course but it was this idea that inspired me to write Lose this Skin. After publishing some two dozen short stories over the last few years - and winning two CWA Short Story Daggers in the process - here at last was something I felt I could get my debut novelistic teeth stuck into.

As a reader I have always been drawn to the loner but at the same time have never felt totally comfortable with the idea of a British PI. So when it came to creating my own leading man I felt that I needed a good reason for him to be acting alone. Eventually I came up with the idea of a cop on sick leave after being shot in a drive-by shooting with the shooter still out there in the night... He is finally pulled away from his own brooding when an old friend asks him to look into the death of her son. The boy had been killed under the wheels of a police car and the official line is that it was an accident but his mother thinks differently.

Buy Online


 

 

Top of page

 

  Webmaster: Tony 'Grog' Roberts        [Contact]  

 



buy abortion pill abortion pill buy online abortion pill online purchase
my girl friend cheated on me married cheaters online
online open why women cheat on men
website infidelity why men cheat
website read cost of abortion pills
why women cheat in relationships married men and affairs click here
spy on phones spy on mobile phone phone tracking app
dilatation and curettage abortions pictures surgical abortion stories
i love my boyfriend but i cheat i just cheated on my boyfriend i want to cheat on my boyfriend
tween girls tribb sex stories stories explicit interacial sex stories 1950 s
walgreens photo deals walgreens prints coupon code for walgreens photo
amoxicillin 250mg mikemaloney.net keflex pill
2016 viagra coupon site coupon for free viagra
wifes who cheat what causes women to cheat looking for affair
acheter viagra livraison 48h acheter viagra livraison 48h acheter viagra livraison 48h
cialis coupon codes discount cialis pharmacy coupon generic cialis source
cialis.com coupon go free discount prescription card
augmentin pret augmentin bis augmentin 375
losartan jubilant losartan jubilant losartankalium bivirkninger
naprosyn 750 mg open naprosyn jel nedir
citalopram hydrobromide high citalopram hydrobromide usp monograph citalopram hydrobromide and alcohol
free prescription cards discount martialinfo.com prescription coupon
dexamethasone suppression test web-dev.dk dexamethasone mechanism of action in cancer
lamisil spray lamisil para que serve lamisil spray
stemetil im s467833690.online.de stemetil side effects restlessness
clomid cycle clomid proviron pct clomid testosterone
coupons prescriptions cialis free sample coupons cialis coupons 2015
cialis coupon 2015 prescription coupon card cialis online coupon
priligy thailand priligy resepti priligy apteekki
early abortion pill acnc.com abortion pill
abortion in first trimester what is a scraping of the uterus terminating pregnancy at 5 weeks
what is an abortion clinic rftrack.net where to do abortion
naltrexone alcohol side effects open buy naltrexone
naltrexone implant locations floridafriendlyplants.com naltrexone implant
low dose naltrexone for pain zygonie.com naltrexone challenge
low dose naltraxone read revia medication

Jerry Sykes



Home
Book Reviews
Features
Interviews
News
Columns
Authors
Blog
About Us
Contact Us

Privacy Policy | Contact Shots Editor

THIS WEBSITE IS © SHOTS COLLECTIVE. NOT TO BE REPRODUCED ELECTRONICALLY EITHER WHOLLY OR IN PART WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION OF THE EDITOR.