Just got back from the Magic Millions weanling sales at the Gold Coast. Caught up with lots of old racing friends and think I've stumbled on to a plot for a new book set around the sales ring!
I'm still finishing off my next book due out in 2010, but it always pays to have an idea or two in your pocket for the next one.
Funny where your ideas come from. I was standing next to the rail watching the horses parade when a guy says to his wife; "Bit of a problem when the girl with the horse has got longer legs than the weanling she's leading in." I looked up and sure enough, the tall leggy blonde leading in the weanling, had a set of pins which made the young colt look like a pony. I'll have to steal that line for one of my books...
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Australia’s foremost racing crime writer
Peter writes crime novels set in the always fascinating, sometimes glamourous and often shady world of thoroughbred racing. He draws on the colourful characters, situations and day to day racing life observed while he was sweeping stables, strapping horses and riding trackwork.
Peter may now be the racing manager for AAP, but he has not forgotten his strapping days! His writing career stems from the great racing yarns he used to share with friends around the dinner table.. This lead to a publisher asking him to write his autobiography A STRAPPER’S TALE. In 2007 Peter published PUNTER’S LUCK', followed by 'PUNTER’S TURF' 2009 which was also released as a talking book and reports are that there’s many a jockey, trainer, float driver, farrier, strapper and bookie listening on the way home from the races!
Now Peter’s latest novel SILK CHASER will be published in June 2010 and he is currently hard at work on his fourth novel.
If you are a book reviewer and would like a review copy contact panpublicity@macmillan.com.au
Peter has appeared at the 2009 Melbourne Writers Festival and he is speaking at the Torquay Froth and Bubble Literary Festival in June 2010.
You can book Peter for your next racing or literary event via kleinoncrime@hotmail.com
Peter may now be the racing manager for AAP, but he has not forgotten his strapping days! His writing career stems from the great racing yarns he used to share with friends around the dinner table.. This lead to a publisher asking him to write his autobiography A STRAPPER’S TALE. In 2007 Peter published PUNTER’S LUCK', followed by 'PUNTER’S TURF' 2009 which was also released as a talking book and reports are that there’s many a jockey, trainer, float driver, farrier, strapper and bookie listening on the way home from the races!
Now Peter’s latest novel SILK CHASER will be published in June 2010 and he is currently hard at work on his fourth novel.
If you are a book reviewer and would like a review copy contact panpublicity@macmillan.com.au
Peter has appeared at the 2009 Melbourne Writers Festival and he is speaking at the Torquay Froth and Bubble Literary Festival in June 2010.
You can book Peter for your next racing or literary event via kleinoncrime@hotmail.com
'Silk Chaser' published next month!
Silk Chaser, the new Peter Klein racing mystery novel will be released in June.
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