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. Agony! 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 Edwardian murder mysteries. 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. The Betrayal was published on 28 February. I had a free psych novelette, The Mother, out in March. The first Edwardian murder mystery, The Murder Of The Housemaid, came out on 31 May. The Stepmother is out on 22 November. Bags Of Bones and The Suitcase Murders are following close behind.
Happy Days!
Iain
Iain Maitland
11 November 2026
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