Over a long writing career, C. S. Boag's work has featured in numerous publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, the former Sydney Sun newspaper and The Bulletin magazine. His first story appeared in Sydney University's Honi Soit magazine and a number of his short stories have been published since.
A former columnist and feature writer, he is a winner of the Walter Stone Memorial Prize for Literature. In the Mister Rainbow series the Hood with No Hands, Death of a Ladies' Man, Horses for Corpses and Bullets at the Ballet have already been released by Xoum publishers, with The Cock Robin Killer to be released later this year.
C. S. has travelled extensively and lived both here and overseas. He feels he speaks enough French not to die there.
He says he has renovated too many houses, driven too many taxis and bulldozers. He was a councillor on the Sydney City Council for what he calls a "chilling couple of years"; and has also worked in a hamburger bar, taught English, laboured and performed other tasks "too arduous to mention". He has five children and now lives with his wife Judith on a small holding near Bathurst.
Pitch to Festival Organisers: In an earlier life C. S. Boag was an alderman on the Sydney City Council and a Sydney based journalist on The Bulletin and Sydney Morning Herald, which makes C. S. well placed to be an entertaining speaker who loves a crowd. He is very happy to speak about the art of writing and his life in general while answering the questions of aspiring writers and avid readers.
Charles writes full time and enjoys the challenges and stimulation of every part of the process, including the research, plotting, creative writing, editing and polishing.
In the words of author and literary critic Barry Oakley: Rainbow is a PI with depth, a retro private eye in a contemporary Australian setting who keeps himself to himself, lives illegally on a boat in Sydney Harbour and has no identity to speak of. In the great tradition of Dasheill Hammett’s Sam Spade and Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, it’s noir all the way with added humour and wit along with sexy dames and hard slugs.
Website:: http://www.csboag.com
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Contact Email: [csboag[@]hotmail.com] remove brackets before emailing.
Amazon, I tunes, Kobo, Google links:
http://www.amazon.com/C.S.-Boag/e/B00EH102FQ
https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/cs-boag/id586493955?mt=11
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-au/Search/Query?q=cs%20boag&Query=cs+boag&fcpromocodes=Yes
Publisher:- http://www.xoum.com.au/authors/cs-boag/
Synopses of books:
She’s a surgeon, she’s beautiful and she desperately wants Mister Rainbow to shed some light on her husband’s past. But when he does, she wishes he hadn’t. Because what Rainbow discovers is a handless hood and a whole lot of murders. Rainbow’s a retro private eye who keeps himself to himself. He lives illegally on a boat in Sydney harbour, has no identity, and frequents speakeasies. He’s also got a nemesis called Pandora.
When Mister Rainbow finds a headless honcho in a Kings Cross alleyway, the tattoo around the corpse’s neck leaves no doubt as to its identity. Thomas L. Tycho was everybody’s enemy – a trickster, a dirty dealer, a wide boy who made the mistake of wide boys the world over – not making himself narrower when the gun went off.
The killers identity, however, proves more elusive - as everybody hated Tommy, anybody could have popped him. His wife, his girlfriend, and half of Sudney’s underworld all had motive, but Rainbow smells something fishy, and it’s got nothing to do with what’s floating in the harbour…
When a few too many dead bodies turn up on Sydney’s mean streets, Mister Rainbow’s too busy to investigate – until an old flame goes up in smoke.
Then it’s no holds barred as the famous P.I. with the dancing feet finds himself pitted against the city’s crooked gamblers - and the dame determined to whip them into line….
Awards & Prizes:
# Independent Publisher Book Awards:-Silver Award for The Hood with No Hands
# Walter Stone Memorial Award for Literature
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