Me? I Write Novels & Film Scripts

I’m a novelist and have been doing this full-time this past decade. Before that, for about 30 years, I was a freelance writer focusing on business and finance and other boring stuff that paid the bills. By 2015, I’d had enough. I wrote two memoirs, Dear Michael, Love Dad (Hodder, 2016/17) and, with my eldest son, Michael, Out Of The Madhouse (JKP, 2018). Both of these are available on Amazon and as audios too – Dear Michael, Love Dad is read by the fab actor, Michael Simkins, and Out Of The Madhouse is read by my son Michael and myself – what a wonderful experience that was.

I spent a few years with one agent and one publisher getting nowhere very … very … very … slowly with one thriller out each year – Sweet William, Mr Todd’s Reckoning and The Scribbler – and this was incredibly frustrating. Wasted years, really. Mr Todd’s Reckoning was coming to TV as a six-part series with Paul Ritter starring in it. Sadly, Paul passed away and the production company, AbbottVision, withdrew from the project. I then spent a while rattling through publishers and agents galore, thrashing about, trying to get with the right people. Things, eventually, slotted into place – for a while anyway …

In late 2025, I set up my own publishing business, Three Ways Press, for my police thrillers and domestic noir novels and to write micro-drama film scripts. Shallow Graves, the first police thriller, came out in October and The Psychopath, the first domestic noir thriller, came out in December. I also published, in January , a free crime novelette, Facing Evil. My latest psych, The Betrayal, was published on 28 February. I have a free psych novelette, The Mother, out in March. Lots more coming. I am also editing and writing micro-drama film scripts but am working under a NDA so I can’t say much right now. I expect the first film to come out in 2027. Plenty going on!

Happy Days!

Iain

Iain Maitland

Thursday 5 March 2026

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